3 and Out with John Middlekauff - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Terrific podcast to add to your NFL podcast playlist. Short, sweet, to the point. Very knowledgeable with great takes. Must listen!

Being a former scout/front office personnel gives John a great perspective on how teams operate and run their business. He’s worked for one of the best. He’s very concise and confident in his answers and takes. He has great guests and puts out a lot of content without being repetitive. I wish he could fill in for Colin Cowherd’s when he takes time off.

John has an awesome personality and provides great insight into the NFL. 95% of what he says is on the money and usually a breath of fresh air.

That said - two gripes with the pod.

First, John needs to stop drinking water in the middle of his talks… you can literally hear him drinking and swallowing the water which is super weird to listen to.

Second, the ads needs to be spread out more or cut down. Understand it’s a business and you gotta make money but it’s truthfully getting ridiculous. I’ve been a listener now for 4 years and it’s gotten progressively worse and worse.

John is great, but this podcast has become a cesspool of advertisements. The show often doesn’t start until the 5 minute mark. Even then, there are routine ads throughout the show. They will even be mixed in with the actual content. This has only gotten worse since he joined Colin and The Volume, which is a shame becasue John is really talented. I wouldn’t be surprised if more than half the show is advertisements at this point.

Great insight on the game of football, if you can make it through the mindless and endless advertising reads. Seriously the ratio of ads to actual content here are out of whack.

Dont mind some advertising for good content but the amount of commercials in a typical episode is horrifying. Content is normally good similar (sometimes too similar) to cowherd’s pod. If you handle nonstop ads this pod might be for you.