Sleeping On Lions? RESPECT Brock Purdy, Can Penix Be A Star? NFL/ESPN Partnership

3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Football, Sports News, News, Golf, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

John dives into the mailbag and answers questions ranging from whether people are sleeping on the Lions, to the obvious conflict of interest for ESPN journalists, and why people need to put more respect on Brock Purdy’s name.

Timeline:

7:00 - Chiefs 1 score game stat

11:30 - Why does Licht keep Todd Bowles?

15:00 - Can Falcons overcome their coaching?

19:45 - Rank these running backs

26:00 - Can big money make college programs into powerhouses?

29:45 - Like/Don’t like about podcasting

32:00 - Can Michael Penix be a star?

35:15 - Don’t sleep on the Lions

43:00 - Takeaways from Pete Carroll’s Raiders debut

47:00 - Top 10 coaches

54:00 - ESPN/NFL partnership

58:15 - Texans v Packers Super Bowl?

59:45 - Attending Super Bowl 60

1:04:00 - Can Henderson become the next Gibbs?

1:06:00 - Will Purdy ever get the respect he deserves?

1:08:30 - Which NFL employee would you get beers with?

1:17:00 - Trade for Tanner Mckee?

1:19:15 - Scottsdale recommendations

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1:53.1	Hopefully everyone is having a great day.
1:55.3	And I know I am having an excellent day.
1:58.4	I actually recorded an interview earlier today with Greg Olson, Fox Broadcaster,
2:03.0	former longtime NFL player, tied in university.
2:06.1	I think we'll play that early next week.
2:08.4	I'm actually going, I'm doing Fox Sports One again Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
2:13.8	So I'll be down in L.A. next week, but I'll still be doing podcasts, probably from the hotel room. So nothing will change there. But we'll have great coming out next week. And I thought today, I was like, you know, what's going on? I had some takes. I'm like, you know what it will do? We haven't done this in a while? Just a big mail bag. So I recorded about an hour worth of mailbag questions.
2:35.1	Tried to get as many as I could to not go on forever and ever.
2:38.7	But we did an hour plus of a mailbag.
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