3 & Out - John Harbaugh FIRED in Baltimore, Kliff Kingsbury OUT in Washington, Cowboys make a change
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.3 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Former NFL scout John Middlekauff reacts to the news of the day that saw John Harbaugh being fired in Baltimore. John dives into how we knew all season that this was possible, what's next for Baltimore and where should Harbaugh look to next to coach? Next, John talks about Washington moving on from Kliff Kingsbury and why they both decided to part ways, the changes made to the Cowboys defense, and the wild college transfer portal and how it's changing the college football landscape.
Finally, John answers your questions in this episode's mailbag segment.
04:22 - John Harbaugh fired in Baltimore
21:01 - Cowboys make a change on defense
29:41 - Carlie Irsay Gordon and the Colts
34:12 - College football transfer portal
41:45 - Dad Diaries
53:11 - Mailbag
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.2 | The volume. |
| 0:19.5 | What is going on, everybody, John Middilkoff, three and out podcast, brought to you by my friends at Zone Pouches. |
| 0:28.2 | Well, I recorded a podcast early afternoon, and then as I was headed with my wife to this baby checkup appointment, I got forwarded a bunch of tweets that John Harbaugh had been fired. |
| 0:43.0 | So I went to the appointment, came back, re-recorded the open, and reacted to the John Harbaugh situation. |
| 0:50.3 | Because let's face it, the biggest story of the day. |
| 0:54.4 | And even though we had been talking about it and alluding to it a little on the podcast, |
| 0:59.6 | a lot of you guys' DMs, it's still wild when you actually read that he got fired. |
| 1:04.3 | It was, wow. |
| 1:06.2 | So we'll dive into just my quick reaction to it as well as some other stuff that happened today. |
| 1:12.8 | Iber flu fired, Kingsbury fired. |
| 1:16.1 | We will talk. |
| 1:17.3 | Some college football, some I saw on the internet. |
| 1:20.3 | This place really is insane right now. |
| 1:23.6 | As well, something I wanted to start doing like once a week as someone who's about to have a child. I'm just going to see a lot of things, observe a lot of things, have a lot of takes. So I thought, you know, let's mix in the dad diaries. And we're going to try to do that. Well, just, who knows? It'll change week to week. But I wanted to dabble today, as well as a little mailbag. |
| 1:45.6 | At John Middlecoff. |
| 1:46.7 | At John Middlecoff is the Instagram fire in those DMs and get your questions answered on the show. |
| 1:54.0 | So make sure you subscribe to the podcast if you listen on Collins feed. |
| 1:57.2 | Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel. |
| 1:59.6 | I just got a text message. |
| 2:00.5 | We got a Netflix marketing meeting later this week. |
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