Mike Vrabel Press Conference Reaction + NFL Pre-Draft Mailbag
3 and Out with John Middlekauff
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of 3 & Out, John Middlekauff reacts to Mike Vrabel’s latest press conference and breaks down the key takeaways from one of the league’s most respected voices. What stood out, and is everyone ready to move on from the situation?
Later, it’s the Middlekauff Mailbag, answering your questions and hitting on a wide range of topics from around the league.
John dives into the New York Giants and their draft outlook, examining potential strategies, team needs, and how they could approach one of the most important drafts in recent years.
From there, he takes a step back and talks about losing in sports—why it matters, how players handle it, and what separates players that bounce back from those that stay stuck.
Plus, a big-picture look at NFL divisions and how the league stacks up across the board, before getting into the growing conversation around NFL expansion and what it could mean for the future of the sport.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.1 | The volume. |
| 0:19.5 | What is going on, everybody? |
| 0:21.7 | John Middilkoff, three and out podcast. |
| 0:24.2 | Hopefully you are doing well out there in the real world, |
| 0:28.3 | living life, enjoying life, and we are now a day away from the NFL draft. |
| 0:33.9 | Roger Goodell up on the stage, hugging dudes, us getting picks, |
| 0:37.2 | and I am very, very excited. |
| 0:40.6 | So I do, Mike Vrable talked today. That's what we will start with. I'll react to just my |
| 0:46.1 | overall thought on his comments. And we did a mailbag. I plan on just doing a mailbag, but then |
| 0:52.9 | Vrable talked. I'm like, let's just react to that, and then we'll just do at John Middlecoff, |
| 0:56.3 | at John Middlecoff is the Instagram. |
| 0:58.5 | Tomorrow I'm going to do my top 10 predictions going for Thursday, the first round. |
| 1:04.4 | I will have a reaction Friday to the first round. |
| 1:07.5 | I will have a reaction podcast Saturday to the second day of the draft. |
| 1:13.4 | Probably not going to do anything on Saturday, and then we'll react again for, I'll record it on |
| 1:19.7 | Sunday, but it'll be out on Monday. So that's the game plan over the course of the next week. I think |
| 1:23.4 | I'm going to record a couple times with Colin as well. So there's going to be a lot of takes and content flying. |
| 1:28.9 | That is for damn sure. |
| 1:31.0 | You guys know the drill. |
| 1:32.6 | If you listen on Colin's feed, make sure you subscribe to Three and Out. |
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