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Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast

NFL Draft Analyst Mike Mayock breaks down broadcasting career (Football 06/18)

Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast

CBS Sports, Football, NFL

Football, Sports

4.22.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

NFL Draft analyst Mike Mayock joins CBS Sports Senior Fantasy writer Dave Richard to discuss his career path into the broadcasting world, detailing how he has attacked assignments and various roles throughout the year, while also extensively discussing his process as a draft evaluator.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know Mike Mayock is the lead draft analyst for NFL media.

0:10.0

He's a former Steeler, Giant, and Argonaut,

0:13.0

has been inducted into the Boston College Varsity Club Hall of Fame

0:16.2

after flourishing in both football and baseball.

0:19.1

He's been nominated for an Emmy.

0:20.6

He knows a thing or two about commercial real estate, but most of all, he's a son, a an Good morning David, how are you? I'm doing all right. Mike, I found your bio in the CBS Sports Archives and I'd like to read it to.

0:38.0

Once upon a time you used to work for CBS Sports.

0:41.0

Here it is and it's from 1999.

0:44.0

Mayoc is in his third year as a reporter for the NCAA tournament on CBS.

0:49.0

He joined CBS Sports in 1996 and has served two years as a college football analyst.

0:55.0

He worked as an analyst and sideline reporter for ESPAN's college football and

0:59.4

Canadian football broadcast from 1993 to 1995. He also served as the sideline reporter

1:05.2

for ESPN's baseball across America. Dude, that was almost 20 years ago.

1:13.0

I'd say you've come a long way.

1:16.0

Well, really the genesis of my career, if you want to call it that is if you're not a pro bowl Hall of Fame type NFL player

1:29.6

You've got to do it differently and I was in commercial real estate and to make a

1:34.1

long story short I knew I had to beat back in football somehow it was just in my

1:38.7

blood and what I realized very quickly was I had to do a little bit of everything to create some

1:46.3

reality within this business that I took it very seriously. I was always prepared and I didn't want to be a

1:56.4

sideline reporter that that but I had to do it to get my foot in the door so I did

2:01.0

sideline in the CBS

2:09.8

CBS basketball. I did arena football as you could see in that bio I was a sideline

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