3 & Out - Football’s Unmatched Power, Aaron Donald Buzz, Baker’s Contract & Middlekauff Mailbag
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS
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Summary
On this episode of 3 & Out, John Middlekauff dives into why football continues to reign supreme in American sports, exploring the NFL's unmatched popularity, influence, and staying power. From television ratings to fan engagement, John explains what separates football from every other league.
John also reacts to Sean McVay's latest comments about Aaron Donald, discussing whether there's any reason to believe the future Hall of Famer could return to the field and what his presence would mean for the Rams.
Plus, Adam Schefter's update on the 49ers' second-round pick sparks another conversation about San Francisco's roster, while John weighs in on the latest involving the Las Vegas Raiders and quarterback Fernando Mendoza.
The episode also covers the Chiefs' plans for a new stadium, what it could mean for the franchise and the city of Kansas City, and the latest surrounding Deebo Samuel as his future continues to be a topic of discussion.
To wrap things up, John reacts to the Florida head coach's response to a phone interruption during a press conference before opening up the Middlekauff Mailbag to answer your questions on the biggest stories around the NFL.
From league-wide trends and quarterback news to stadium developments and front-office storylines, it's all covered on this episode of 3 &Out.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.2 | The volume. |
| 0:19.5 | What is going on, my people? John Middle we doing? John Middlecock Three and out podcast. Hopefully you are doing well and hopefully you're doing as well as the NFL because a stat came out today that the NFL made more money in 25 than baseball, basketball, and hockey combined. So we can dive into the popularity of football. |
| 0:39.4 | Fire around the league. |
| 0:40.6 | We got stories breaking left and right. |
| 0:42.5 | Or just coaches talking, Scheftert talking. |
| 0:45.7 | We'll just hit on some different things. |
| 0:47.6 | We'll do a little mailbag. |
| 0:48.6 | At John Middlecopp. |
| 0:49.4 | At John Middlecop is the Instagram firing those DMs. |
| 0:52.1 | Get your questions answered on the show. |
| 1:28.3 | And that'll be it. So hopefully everyone's doing well. And getting ready for football because it's right around. You can kind of smell it in the air. Sometimes I just smell the air and it's like really hot. But it's always what football people say. It's like you can smell football in the air. definitely when you go to pro football talk and you see, you know, guys talk and you're like, okay, it's kind of back. But, well, by next week, we'll have a lot going on for sure. Other than that, you guys know the drill. Subscribe. If you listen on Collins feed, check out the, if you want to watch it on video, it's's on Netflix I kind of lost my train of thought there |
| 1:30.7 | but let's just let's dive into some sports |
| 1:33.6 | let's just start with |
| 1:36.5 | the popularity and the power of football |
| 1:39.6 | some of these numbers coming out for the World Cup |
| 1:42.7 | are pretty eye-opening |
| 1:43.9 | and because like the stuff I do with Colin Some of these numbers coming out for the World Cup are pretty eye-opening. |
| 1:54.7 | And because the stuff I do with Colin on the herd, somehow I'm on a FS1 or Fox email chain and the head boss sent out a big email. |
| 1:58.7 | And the excitement in that building for this event was incredible because it shattered records. |
| 2:06.7 | I think the final, which is obviously, it's not like America or even Mexico was in it, did like 60 million people. |
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