The Vikings FIRE Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, Raiders HIRE Klint Kubiak, Cardinals FINALLY hire a HC
3 and Out with John Middlekauff
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Former NFL scout John Middlekauff opens the show talking about the Vikings surprisingly firing their GM, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and why if this was going to happen, waiting until February was a very interesting decision. Next, John discusses the Raiders hiring Klint Kubiak and why he feels that this is the right move for Vegas. Finally, John dives into the Cardinals hiring Mike LaFleur in what looks like a very "meh" hire for Arizona. All that and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.2 | Stigatz here. |
| 0:06.1 | I have a podcast empire that I have brought here to Iheart, and I'm also hosting a daily live radio show from 3 to 5 p.m. |
| 0:12.7 | Eastern called Stegots & Company Live, which is available in podcast form, right when the show finishes every single day. |
| 0:20.3 | You can expect a lot of laughter, great guests, a ton of calls, and a lot of fun. |
| 0:25.1 | Listen to Stugats & Company Live and our original podcast, Stugats and Company and God Bless Football, |
| 0:32.0 | and you can check all of those out on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | The Volume. |
| 0:54.0 | What is going on, everybody? How are we doing? John Middellcock, Three and Out podcast. Hopefully you are doing well out there in the real world. Big week. Super Bowl. You ever heard of it? It's here. Well, Super Bowl Week is here. And I had originally planned to, we recorded |
| 1:14.5 | with Stucky at the end of the week last week, and I was going to put it out today. But then |
| 1:19.6 | Quessie, the Vikings fired their GM, the Raiders hired a coach, the Niners hired Rahim |
| 1:26.5 | Morris, Cardinals hired a coach, Seattle Seahawks are for sale. |
| 1:30.4 | I said, you know what? I need to do a podcast. So I'm just doing a normal podcast today. |
| 1:35.8 | We will talk with Al Guido, the president of the 49ers tomorrow, what it's like to be the host city of the Super Bowl, what that entails from a business standpoint. And then I'll put out Stucky probably Wednesday. That's the game plan as of right |
| 1:50.1 | now. Other than that, I'll be in San Francisco for like 36 hours, just doing a little work, |
| 1:57.2 | doing a little meet and greet with my people at the volume, not like meeting and greet fans, |
| 2:02.3 | but like party, we got a bunch of clients and kind of all get together, you know, kind of a, |
| 2:07.3 | not a normal company because we're all remote, so we don't all work together. |
| 2:11.1 | Well, some people do. |
| 2:11.8 | There's an office in New York and an office in Los Angeles, but, you know, I'm Scottsdale, so I don't ever see anybody beside remotely, |
| 2:20.3 | besides Jackson every once in a while, which I'll see him here in a couple days, but that's |
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