Midseason Insights + Trade Deadline Talk with Mike Mayock
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4.3 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks are joined by former colleague and GM Mike Mayock to discuss Mac Jones’ resurgence with the 49ers (0:35), the Kansas City Chiefs getting back on track after a slow start (4:41), and roster-building philosophies ahead of the NFL Trade Deadline (9:03). Then, the guys dive into Jon Gruden’s potential fit as a college football coach (16:10), the growing impact of the transfer portal (20:35), and how early-picking teams should approach quarterback evaluations in a thin draft class (22:40).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. |
| 0:12.0 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:12.9 | Welcome to Move the Stick, DJ Buck, and we've got our buddy back with us. |
| 0:16.2 | Mike, Mike, how the heck are you doing, man? |
| 0:18.4 | DJ, I'm good. |
| 0:19.4 | Buck, I'm good. |
| 0:20.1 | How you guys doing? |
| 0:21.4 | Doing great, man. We got a Thursday night or tonight. So I'm going to buzz up to L.A. for a little Chargers Vikings. And then we got a fun weekend of football. I want to hit you up first. Some things I wanted to get to you on, including Kansas City. but, you know, before we get there, we've talked a bunch about these quarterback reclamation projects, and we've been talking about it all year long. It kind of seems like the year of that. But the one that I don't know we've given as much attention to is the little run that Mack Jones has gone on. Going back to when he was coming out, Mike, what did you think of him and why is this |
| 0:54.6 | working now when maybe, you know, after initial success, it fell apart in New England? |
| 1:00.0 | I thought he was a kind of solid, efficient, scheme fit type of guy. I wasn't going to go crazy |
| 1:07.6 | about the measurables. I felt about him a lot like I felt about, and obviously I'm wrong on a lot of fronts. |
| 1:17.2 | But the same way I felt about Bo Knicks coming out, and what's his face from the Giants |
| 1:22.4 | coming out of Ole Miss last year, Darth and Bart. |
| 1:25.1 | I kind of had, you know, in my head, late one to mid two on all three of those kind of |
| 1:31.0 | guys. |
| 1:32.2 | And, you know, with Sean Faiton, Peyton, Bo was a great fix, fit for what he does, right? |
| 1:38.7 | Number one. |
| 1:40.1 | Dart is a similar guy, I think, because he's good enough athletically. |
| 1:44.6 | He's good enough at kind of everything, but not elite in any of them. |
| 1:48.8 | He's a good athlete. |
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