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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Former NFL scout John Middlekauff reacts to a wild black Monday in the NFL that saw Pete Carroll, Jonathan Gannon, and Kevin Stefanski and Raheem Morris all get fired. John dives into what's next for these teams and if any of them made the wrong decision. Later, John talks about Matt Ryan likely headed towards taking a job with the Falcons organization and how that could impact his job at CBS.
Finally, John answers your questions in this episode's mailbag segment.
03:37 - Black Monday in the NFL
21:49 - Matt Ryan and the Falcons
28:56 - Zoned In
35:48 - Mailbag
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| 0:28.8 | Hopefully everyone is having a great day better than Stefansky, Carolyn Gannon, |
| 0:34.1 | who felt the wrath of Black Monday all fired. We will dive into some thoughts with |
| 0:40.4 | those guys. Some of the GMs did survive. We'll discuss selective accountability and this Matt |
| 0:48.6 | Ryan story, how it looks like he's going to be an executive for Atlanta, but keep his television job, |
| 0:55.3 | have some thoughts there as well, and a little mailbag. |
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| 1:25.7 | games. And then obviously Saturday |
| 1:28.0 | night with Bears Packers, which pretty good Saturday night game. |
| 1:32.9 | We saw earlier this season. |
| 1:34.1 | It was incredible theater. |
| 1:36.1 | So buckle up, baby. |
| 1:38.6 | So let's just dive right in to the Black Monday, and the Raiders, the Arizona Cardinals, and the Cleveland Browns all fire |
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