Mike Mayock Recalls What He Hates With His NFL Network Draft Coverage

Appearing on the Ross Tucker Podcast, former NFL Network lead draft analyst Mike Mayock sounded off on sports media’s entrenched celebrity-over-competence culture, calling out a recurring frustration from his time, which was the network’s habit of importing marquee former players whose names carried more weight than their preparation did in front of a camera...

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“I think there are too many guys that just get used to — because they were such good players — having people give them things,” Mayock said. “And it was one of my really sore points at NFL Network. It used to drive me crazy when they’d bring in a guy for the draft that was a big-name guy, that was going to talk about his position, and couldn’t tell me three names in the draft. And I would be like, ‘What are we doing? Like, what’s important here?’ And the producers and all the people would be like, ‘He brings credibility.’ And I would be like, ‘What about Daniel Jeremiah, Charles Davis, and me doing all the grinding of the tape? Isn’t that all the credibility we need?’ And the answer was pretty much, ‘No, we need these names.'”

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