Shedeur Sanders is STARTING, Michael Penix is OUT, Lane Kiffin LEAVING?
3 and Out with John Middlekauff
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of 3 & Out, John Middlekauff digs into a packed slate across the NFL and college football.
John breaks down what it means for Shedeur Sanders to be named the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, and reacts to the major news that Michael Penix is out for the season with a torn ACL. He also asks the question a lot of fans are starting to wonder: is it time to be concerned about Patrick Mahomes? Plus, John weighs the chances that Lane Kiffin actually leaves Ole Miss and what a move like that would mean for the program and the coaching landscape.
Finally, John answers your questions in this episode's mailbag segment.
04:16 - Sanders getting his chance in Cleveland
12:25 - Michael Penix out for the season
23:19 - What's going on with Mahomes
36:45 - Lane Kiffin rumors
44:34 - Mailbag
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| 0:22.4 | What is going on, everybody? How are we doing? John Middilcock, Three and Out podcast, brought to you by my friends at Zone Pouches. |
| 0:27.2 | Big show today, a lot of quarterback talk. |
| 0:29.6 | Shador Sanders, making his starting debut, Michael Penix, torn ACL, J.J. McCarthy, Patrick Mahomes. We'll dive into some different |
| 0:39.0 | quarterbacks, as well as Lane Kiffin. Because that thing is turned into a circus. |
| 0:45.3 | But I do think if you look at it from an NFL perspective, it really kind of sheds a light |
| 0:50.9 | what pro football does really well. And I think it's one thing that |
| 0:54.6 | college could attempt as we move forward to somewhat copy and just avoid the you know what show |
| 1:02.1 | that is this anytime a coach just leaves a job for another job, which obviously doesn't happen |
| 1:07.6 | in the NFL. Now when they're currently employed, they can't, you can't just leave the 49ers to take the Giants job. So we'll dive into that as well as a mailbag at John Middlecoff. At John Middlecoff is the Instagram. Fire in those DMs. If you're listening on Collins feed, make sure you subscribe. Three and out, we had a separate feed. Subscribe to that. Never miss a podcast. |
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