Morning Cup Of Joe
January 5th, 2026
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.
Black Monday tracker. [CBS]
2026 NFL draft order for non-playoff teams. [Yahoo!]
Myles Garrett sets NFL sack record. Or, Myles Garrett had more than 11-times as many sacks this year as Chris Braswell. [NFL]
When some dude thinks he can take on a former B1G starting offensive lineman in an Oklahoma drill (and don’t be a woman — if you’re such a tough guy you don’t need shoulder pads, honey). [TikTok]
Hot GM candidates. [SI]
The rules analysts BSPN hires are the worst human beings known to 21st century media. [Awful Announcing]
If somehow Indiana doesn’t re-up Curt Cignetti now that an ingenious out-clause in his contract has been unearthed, there will be school athletic directors lined up a block long with blank checks looking to sign him. Dabo Swinney, Kalen DeBoer, Mike Norvell and Matt Rhule ought to be scared to death if Cignetti becomes a free agent. And whomever negotiated Cignetti’s deal with Indiana is a damn genius. [Front Office Sports]
Will Netflix kill movie theaters? “Will?” Joe thought they were already dead. [Outkick]
These videos (here and here) of an attempted scam pulled by a high-end jeweler in New York are hilarious. [TikTok]
This is the good stuff🤣 https://t.co/B9EXwJci5X pic.twitter.com/wz9IdvKT4Q
— Jack Grossman (@JackGrossman97) January 3, 2026
THE GRANDDADDY OF THEM ALL!
The ROSE BOWL is tomorrow and my Hoosiers are taking on Alabama!! And to celebrate my favorite bowl game of the year they sent us a box!
Thank you to everyone at the @rosebowlgame I cannot wait to watch tomorrow!! pic.twitter.com/XZITUlwX2I
— Jon Gruden (@BarstoolGruden) December 31, 2025
January 5th, 2026 at 4:28 am
Rapid housecleaning, Raheem and the GM. The Falcons being the first to make a statement. I really didn’t see that coming. It does look like a full rebuild coming their way. Sometimes it has to be done, because it just isn’t the coach.
Thank you for the Black Monday tracker and the 2026 draft order! Definitely agree with their short note about keeping an eye out for a future QB too, while keeping Baker. Both good reads.
January 5th, 2026 at 4:46 am
Send Tood off to the assisted living – weight loss center as the former head coach and defenseless coordinator of a Super Bowl winning team before he wrecked the culture. Obliterated it. Disintegrated it. Disgraceful.
January 5th, 2026 at 5:58 am
Big 10 vs Pac 8
January 5th, 2026 at 8:31 am
Hey Joe, can you get a GoFundMe page started for Cignetti to come here?
January 5th, 2026 at 8:54 am
Saw Bowles at the Duff’s Buffet last night. Discussed his future over ham and mac & cheese, and he was confident his job was safe.
January 5th, 2026 at 9:17 am
No, because no Bucs fan should ever want a college coach.
January 5th, 2026 at 9:45 am
Hollywood killed the movie theater business by shoveling woke ideology down our collective throats like it was a Maoist struggle session, especially with their big budget films and especially after Avengers End Game. Truth be told, the streaming platforms are worse in that regard, but it doesn’t dent my wallet as much. Many families of four or more end up paying $10 per ticket and $60 in concessions. For what? To be lectured to by Hollywood while sitting with other people who have no consideration for the noise their children are making during the movie.
January 5th, 2026 at 10:29 am
D-Rome is not wrong.
January 5th, 2026 at 11:43 am
It isn’t just Netflix, it’s all types of streaming going on. During Covid, it caught on, and now look at the NFL. They are enjoying the benefits with streaming too. Big money. Not only movies, it’s taking over everything.
I loved going to the theater for years, however it is sky high now too. I cannot even imagine how much it is to take a family of four to the movies nowadays. What happened to the dollar movies?
It is nice to sit back and binge movies and series for a monthly rate with ads. Anytime you want. I have Prime and Netflix. Tubi is free streaming and a lot of good stuff on there too.
January 5th, 2026 at 11:48 am
That’s exactly the problem right there. There was a time when streaming was great. I cut the cord 10 years ago and there was a period of time when you could stream and not get ads because you were paying for the service. Now an ad free experience is an added surcharge. I’ve cut almost all streaming platforms in favor of piracy and I’m not sorry for it. In fact, even though I pay for Prime I will still pirate the shows to avoid the ads. The streaming experience is worse than cable ever was.
January 5th, 2026 at 12:22 pm
Ah yes, Hollywood shoved all that woke stuff down your throats… They literally tied ya’ll down and forced you to watch movies, huh?
So many delusional snowflakes around here.
January 5th, 2026 at 12:35 pm
And the tweet of the year makes an appearance:
“It’s amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.”
January 5th, 2026 at 2:05 pm
D-Rome, Yes I definitely get it. Exactly right, no ads before. You sound like many I know too. Now it’s a tier to another tier to another tier. I will not go ad-free and am being very choosy who I buy goods and services from. Just waiting to see if Amazon increases again. If so, bye-bye. I love Netflix, but their streaming of the games isn’t that great. They probably should stick with movies/series/other. But they all have a piece of the NFL pie and much more now.
January 5th, 2026 at 2:57 pm
Uh no. I stopped paying to watch their movies and their shows. So did millions of other people. Hollywood has taken notice. Why do you think they’re bringing the band back together with the next Avengers movie? It’s a big reason why movie theaters are dying.
January 5th, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Joe, you mean like Pete Carroll, Jimmy Johnson or Bill Walsh?
January 5th, 2026 at 11:22 pm
Actually, more like Urban Meyer, Steve Spurrier, Lou Holtz, Bobby Petrino, Chip Kelly, Matt Rhule, Greg Schiano, Dennis Erickson, to name a few.
Of your three, only Jimmy Johnson was a true college guy. Pete Carroll, long-time NFL assistant, failed with the Jets and Patriots. College was the only place he could find a head coaching job.
Same with Bill Walsh. He was an NFL guy who was blacklisted by Paul Brown. Only place that would hire him was Stanford. Then Eddie DeBartolo ignored the blacklist and hired Walsh.
And if you have to go back over 20 years to find a good example, you’re not making your point.
The batting average on college coaches succeeding in the NFL is so piss poor, not sure why anyone would even consider it.
January 6th, 2026 at 8:02 am
Oklahoma drill
Watched and participated in many of those. Never saw a dude whimp out like that though. Wow! Someone get his man card off the floor over there please…
Go Bucs!