Welcome to your Morning Cup of Joe, an eye-opener to help Joe’s readers ease into their busy workday with a few football links, wacky news and a pleasant distraction.

Distraction of the Day

Report: Tom Brady hasn’t mended fences enough with Bill Belichick to hire his old Patriots coach. [PFT]

Jets, Browns, Jags to host games in London this fall. [CBS]

Ben Johnson to the Raiders? Why? Unless Tom Brady had a plan in place to get a quarterback, Johnson would be nuts to go there. Unless Brady makes him an offer he can’t refuse — Vegas style! [NFL]

Deshaun Watson’s 2025 in jeopardy. [Yahoo!]

Chucky is still peeved. [TikTok]

Deion Sanders has strong interest in the Raiders gig. Welp, looks like Tom Brady has figured out his quarterback problem. [Las Vegas Review-Journal]

Weird logic: Fired slimy Saints coach Dennis Allen claims being a head coach in the NFL is much more about managing people than X’s and O’s. He blames social media. Don’t all the control freaks? [NFL Trade Rumors]

Marcus Freeman was peeved at James Franklin. Well, him and a few million Pennsylvania taxpayers. [The Athletic]

Looks like a Cavinder Twin, who in the past has been Carson Beck’s plaything, has lured the crappy former Georgia quarterback to Miami. Funny how that happens. Nevin Shapiro has to be pulling strings here, right? [Instagram]

Kirk Herbstreit needs to fly to Bloomington and apologize in front of the good people of Indiana for saying they didn’t belong in the CFP. The only two teams the Hoosiers lost to are both in the national championship and one of those losses was only by 10. Friggin’ dipstick. [Athlon Sports]

Debuting at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, meet the curiously named “Aria,” a female-like robot (which looks like a drunk Russian woman) designed for “companionship and intimacy” and marketed as the cure for loneliness. If you happen to be nursing cocktails at the Lift Bar in Aria at 2 a.m. and some woman drops the word “companionship” on you, she’s looking for both intimacy and cash. Joe has a hunch “Aria” won’t whine about you drinking beer and watching football all weekend. So that’s a plus. Negative: “Aria” has too big of an attitude to clean up after you. Is this the beginning of the end of civilization? Can’t have civilization without procreation. [CNET]

Speaking of (real) women and technology, the Mikayla Demaiter Truthers are out in force claiming no video exists of Demaiter — the former Minnesota goalie turned social media sensation — playing organized hockey anywhere therefore she’s an AI creation. LOL Does this look like an AI farce to you? [Outkick]

Florida Woman texts her drug dealer as her stash ran low. Problem: She instead accidentally texted a Bay County sheriff’s narcotics investigator. [WTVY]

John Tortorella on why he sometimes doesn’t call timeouts when he should. (He hates the scoreboard operators.) [TikTok]

The kind of energy we need during the #NFLPlayoffs 😂@KyleBrandt | @cfrelund | @ColleenWolfe pic.twitter.com/XA9DblbVy2

— NFL GameDay (@NFLGameDay) January 12, 2025

CBS Sports' open to Super Bowl IV

The Fourth AFL-NFL World Championship Game, from Tulane Stadium in New Orleans

Jack Buck and Pat Summerall welcome us in and set the table, then introduce the starters for the #Vikings' offense and #Chiefs defense

January 11, 1970 pic.twitter.com/ubAoOZt7WL

— Kevin Gallagher (@KevG163) January 12, 2025