Browns found their "gap" coach, Why McCarthy gets no respect, Mailbag
3 and Out with John Middlekauff
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Former NFL scout John Middlekauff dives into the Browns hiring Todd Monken and how this hiring smells like it's just a gap coach that is filling the role until Cleveland finds its NEXT coach. Next, John talks about Mike McCarthy and how he doesn't understand why he isn't getting any respect around the NFL.
Finally, John answers your questions in this episode's mailbag segment.
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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 Middlecoff, three and out podcast? |
| 0:23.5 | Hopefully you guys are all doing well out there in the real world today. |
| 0:27.9 | We will talk some football. |
| 0:29.8 | We're going to do a big mailbag today. |
| 0:31.9 | The majority of the podcast, at John Middlecoff, at John Middlecoff is the Instagram. |
| 0:35.7 | Obviously questions on the Belichick situation |
| 0:38.1 | that is taking the nation by storm. Bill, who has a lot of supporters out there in the world fans, |
| 0:45.4 | his former quarterback, his former owner, Jimmy Johnson is pissed. So some of you guys ask me |
| 0:50.6 | questions about that. We'll piggyback on what we talked about yesterday. |
| 0:59.2 | We'll probably start with the Browns hired a coach. I don't want to say we didn't see it coming because he was one of the finalists, but some quick thoughts there. And other than that, |
| 1:03.4 | just a lot of mailbag. At John Middlecock, firing those DMs in my Instagram, just two Fs. |
| 1:08.8 | Even my, a good buddy of mine actually invited me to his wedding, which he should have. He was in my wedding. He's one of my best friends. But he spelled my name with one F. So he still keeps a little chip on your shoulder. It's got two Fs. And that will be the game plan today. So if you guys listen on Collins feed, make sure you |
| 1:28.4 | subscribe to three and out. So you never miss. We have our own feed, Spotify, Apple, anywhere you |
| 1:32.6 | listen. Our videos are all on Netflix, our partners, who actually sent me a nice little care |
| 1:38.3 | package for my little man, Jack, nice blanket, nice, some toys or like stuffy toys type things. |
| 1:46.3 | So they are ingratiating themselves quickly in the Middle Coff household. |
| 1:49.9 | Just banged out his and hers on Netflix too. |
| 1:51.9 | Pretty good watch. |
| 1:52.8 | Pretty entertaining. |
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