3 & Out - Lions center RETIRES, CJ Stroud CAN'T throw, Knicks FIRE Thibs
3 and Out with John Middlekauff
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
John reacts to the Lions Pro Bowl center Frank Ragnow retiring from the NFL and how much of an impact this will have on the Lions offense this season. Next, John talks about CJ Stroud having a sore shoulder and discusses why at this point in the off-season it's very concerning. Later, John dives into the firing of Tom Thibodeau and why this move isn't as surprising as it looks.
Lastly, John answers your questions in this episode's mailbag segment.
4:47 - Lions center retires
13:26 - CJ Stroud has a sore shoulder
14:19 - Josh McDaniels speaks
26:32 - Tyler Guyton admits awful season
36:59 - Mailbag
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | The volume. |
| 0:19.6 | What is going on, everybody, John Middilkoff, 3 and Out podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | Hopefully everyone is doing well. |
| 0:26.4 | And we're here to talk a little football because that's what we do. |
| 0:30.9 | And we had some breaking news, a starting center, Pro Bowl for the Lions, |
| 0:36.4 | the number one seed retired, somewhat out of the blue. |
| 0:39.7 | C.J. Stroud has not been able to practice. |
| 0:42.7 | Big year for Josh McDaniels, the offensive coordinator. |
| 0:45.6 | Tom Thibodeau was fired. |
| 0:47.1 | You have to be careful when you're a, you know, the head coach. |
| 0:50.2 | The GM in the front office can backstab you. |
| 0:52.9 | When you're out grinding, when you're on the court or on the field, |
| 0:56.7 | that guy's talking to the owner, texting people. |
| 0:59.6 | And all of a sudden, you're looking for a job and they're writing the statement saying, |
| 1:03.3 | see ya. |
| 1:04.5 | So we'll talk some sports. |
| 1:05.8 | We'll also do a big mailbag at John Middlecalf as the Instagram fire in those DMs. |
| 1:09.8 | Get your questions answered here on the show |
| 1:11.7 | but before we talk any football you know I need you to subscribe to the podcast if you listen on |
| 1:17.8 | Collins feed you got to subscribe to three and out we did a big golf podcast yesterday we had a football |
| 1:22.9 | podcast the day before so we've had a lot of content this week everything is up on youtube go check that |
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