Matt Stafford & Rams UPSET by Kirk Cousins & Falcons on MNF
3 and Out with John Middlekauff
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Former NFL scout John Middlekauff reacts LIVE following the Week 17 Monday Night Football matchup between Matt Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams vs. Kirk Cousins and the Atlanta Falcons. John kicks off by reacting to the Falcons improbable win against the Rams on MNF. John discusses what this does to Matthew Stafford's NFL MVP chances as the team squanders an opportunity to remain in play for the NFC number 1 overall seed.
John then previews the Seattle Seahawks vs. San Francisco 49ers Week 18 Saturday matchup that will determine the NFC West divisional title winner. John wraps up by previewing the final Sunday Night Football regular season matchup between Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers and Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens.
Finally, John answers your questions in this episode's mailbag segment.
03:50 - Rams-Falcons Reaction
17:59 - Seahawks-49ers Preview
26:46 - Steelers-Ravens Preview
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.0 | The volume. |
| 0:19.5 | What is going on, everybody, John Middlkoff, three and out podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | How are we doing? |
| 0:25.8 | Hopefully everyone is doing well out there in the real world. |
| 0:31.2 | We are brought to you by my friends at Zone Pouches. |
| 0:34.1 | Just watched the Los Angeles Rams get kind of worked for at least half the game by the Falcons, |
| 0:41.0 | kind of come back, did come back, tie the game, and then lose it at the end on a field goal. |
| 0:45.7 | So we'll discuss Matt Stafford and the MVP, which is now looks like it's over. |
| 0:51.0 | We will discuss the Rams playoff hopes, which obviously were high a couple weeks ago |
| 0:56.8 | heading into the postseason. You know, a couple L's, you start kind of looking at their flaws and |
| 1:02.0 | their deficiencies. And you go, I don't know. Some other stuff going on. We've got the Seattle |
| 1:06.8 | Niners game. We've got the Steeler Raven game. We'll hit on those. So it'll, yeah, we'll talk a little football. Then we'll do a little mailbag at John |
| 1:15.9 | Middlecough, at John Middlecough. Is the Instagram firing those DMs? Get your questions answer here on the show. |
| 1:24.4 | And tomorrow we'll talk with Stucky and then we'll also have a mailbag |
| 1:28.7 | and then we'll have a podcast after |
| 1:30.9 | all the college games on |
| 1:33.7 | I'll record one Thursday night |
| 1:35.0 | so something on for Friday |
| 1:36.7 | and then again Saturday night and Sunday night |
| 1:39.2 | so we got a lot of content |
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