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3 and Out with John Middlekauff

AFC and NFC Championship REACTION, McCarthy to the Steelers, What's going on in Cleveland

3 and Out with John Middlekauff

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Football, News, Fantasy Sports, Sports News, Sports

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Former NFL scout John Middlekauff reacts to the Seahawks-Rams game that saw the Seahawks soar past LA 31-27 to advance to the Super Bowl for the first time since 2014. John talks about how impressive Seattle has been all season and how Sam Darnold has been extremely impressive. 

Next, John dives into the AFC Championship game that had the weather play a key role in the Patriots 10-7 win over the Broncos. John talks about the decision making that may have cost the Broncos a chance to be in the Super Bowl.

06:38 - Seattle beats the Rams

25:15 - Patriots - Broncos

40:20 - Steelers are not rebuilding

51:02 - What are the Browns doing

54:05 - Bills coaching search

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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? How are we doing? John Middilcoff, the Rene Out podcast.

0:25.5

Just watched a lot of football. Seattle, beats the Rams, the New England Patriots, beat the Denver Broncos.

0:33.6

And Levi's little rematch of 10 plus years ago when Malcolm Butler, who get ready, because in two weeks, Radio Row, Malcolm Butler might have more sponsorship dollars attached to his name doing the rounds than like Dan Marino meets John Elway.

0:53.3

Everyone's going to want to talk to that guy because we got this rematch.

0:56.8

Drake May, taking on Sam Darnold.

0:59.2

So we'll talk about these two games.

1:01.7

I'll react to what we just witnessed.

1:04.8

And then earlier today, I recorded some stuff on McCarthy, on the Cleveland Brown search,

1:09.9

on Josh Allen being a part of the coaching search

1:14.4

for the bills. So we'll do some of that as well. And then we'll have a bunch of mailbags this

1:20.0

week at John Middlecock firing those DMs, get your questions answered here on the show.

1:24.7

I went on with Colin as well so you can go check out that podcast. Any other,

1:29.7

obviously, this podcast is on Netflix. So go make sure if you want to watch the video,

1:34.2

any video of any of our podcast, check it out on Netflix. And if you listen on Collins feed,

1:40.0

make sure you subscribe to Spotify. Make sure you subscribe to Apple. Wherever you listen to podcast, we got you cover. Just type in three and out. We'll be all this week. We'll have a bunch of shows. Next week I'm going to the Super Bowl. At least not the game. Though the last time the game was actually in the Levi Stadium, I attended when the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers. but I'm going Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday, Thursday, because we always do a volume party

2:04.3

and it's good to see people you work with when you kind of have this job that's a lot of

2:10.4

people are working all over the country.

2:11.8

It's not like an office job.

2:12.7

So it's good to see people.

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