The emergence of Sam Darnold, Patriots HR with Mike Vrabel, Mailbag
3 and Out with John Middlekauff
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Former NFL scout John Middlekauff dives into the emergence of Sam Darnold with the Seahawks and how the Vikings made a huge mistake by letting him leave after last season. Next, John discusses the mistake that the Titans made by firing Mike Vrabel and how lucky the Patriots got by him being available and hiring him.
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? How are we doing, John Middilkoff, three and out podcast. Hopefully |
| 0:26.6 | everyone is doing well out there in the real world, enjoying life. And we'll talk a little football |
| 0:32.4 | today because Sam Darnold's in the Super Bowl, Mike Vrable's in the Super Bowl. Both these guys were kicked to the curb. Kept their head up. And now our AFC and NFC champions. The Eagles are looking for an offensive coordinator. We got the dad diaries. I learned a little lesson about these little books you read children. They're not for you. They're for them. And we'll do a little mailbag. At John Middlecough. At John Middlecough is the Instagram. Fire in those DMs. Get your questions answer here on the show. I'm going to do a massive mailbag for the next couple days. So fire in those DMs in the next 24 hours. And I will read read get your questions involved here this week |
| 1:12.9 | so again at John Middlecoff firing those DMs questions answered here on the show |
| 1:16.6 | other than that you guys know the drill we're on Netflix |
| 1:20.5 | so go check that out make sure you hit the little subscribe button on Netflix |
| 1:23.2 | you can never miss a podcast so if you listen on Collins feed |
| 1:27.1 | make sure you subscribe to the three |
| 1:28.4 | and out feed that's separate feed and uh other than that probably it so we're going to have |
| 1:35.7 | podcasts all week and then i'll be in san francisco for a couple days next week and come back and waste |
| 1:40.9 | management is going on as well and then the super bowl so we'll just'll just keep firing through, keep our head down, and keep swinging. |
| 1:47.0 | But let's dive into some football. |
| 1:49.5 | Appreciate everyone that listens that has told your friends about this, that has watched on Netflix. |
| 1:53.7 | It's been really cool. |
| 1:55.5 | They keep inviting me back, so we'll keep coming. |
| 1:57.9 | I do want to start with, I think sports now, like most things in society, |
| 2:03.8 | become so polarizing the amount of people that talk about it now, especially football. |
| 2:10.4 | You can't just have a player and being different on. Every guy ultimately becomes polarizing. |
| 2:18.6 | You know, unless you're Patrick Mahomes and you just rattle off Super Bowl victories, |
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