Morning Cup Of Joe
March 18th, 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.
UFL expansion coming down the pike? [PFT]
Tua vs. Michael Penix, who ya’ got? [CBS]
Raiders want Kirk Cousins. Hhhmmm? Tom Brady and John Spytek don’t want Kyle Trask? (Zac Robinson doesn’t either otherwise, Trask would be here right now instead of Jake Browning.) [Yahoo!]
Jerry Jones said if the Cowboys only “played a lick of defense” they could have done damage in the playoffs. OK then, who was the football savant who hired Matt Eburflus to run the Cowboys’ defense? Bueller? [NFL]
This is a good example of why some players (Keyshawn Johnson, for example) can’t stand Chucky. Very possible Chucky cost this guy seven figures that the guy will never get back. As always, boys and girls, get things in writing. [TikTok]
Why is June 1 such an important date in the NFL? [SI]
Good for Matt Leinhart! About time someone tells these entitled pr!cks, who the school (?) will pay some seven figures, to learn a little respect and history. Standing-O! (Remember this? — the nerve!) And the gall of Lincoln Riley to want to sell out retired numbers! Bad enough he had a hand in getting rid of one of the greatest rivalries in college football. This Riley p!sses Joe off more and more every year. [On3]
Louisiana Tech currently scheduled to play 20 games this fall. If this holds up, Joe doesn’t want to hear one word of whining from the NFLPA that they can’t play 18 games. The old USFL played 18-game schedules and Joe doesn’t remember anyone caterwauling about that. Hell, Luis Sharpe was a starting left tackle for both the Memphis Showboats and St. Louis Cardinals in the same calendar year, starting 26 games. Joe never heard him bellyache. He got paid. [Front Office Sports]
Big Cat unloads on FOX baseball insider Ken Rosenthal. [Awful Announcing]
Squishing a grenade. [TikTok]
.@John_Fanta was disgusted that @Blutman27 would think that Iowa has a chance to take down Florida
"Child, please…" pic.twitter.com/GrV4hUb2WM
— Wake Up Barstool (@wakeupbarstool) March 16, 2026
.@SeanFarnham agrees with @MadDogUnleashed's comments on @FirstTake about St. John's 😬 pic.twitter.com/hrl0hsckjc
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) March 17, 2026
March 18th, 2026 at 4:27 am
Jerry Jones is a fool, I may have been born in Dallas, but thank God I didn’t become a Cowboys fan. A better question to ask, Joe, is who was the fool who traded the best defensive player on the team?
March 18th, 2026 at 6:08 am
Luke who?
Defending this dude and Meshawn and putting down Chucky in the same breath? Look, he may have done this dude wrong but defending Johnson in any way shape or form is absurd to me. Johnson is still the same (insert expletive here) he has always been and pretending otherwise is not recognizing the facts.
Matt Leinhart!
Too little too late but I agree whole heartedly Joe.
“I know” We’ll pay these Kids millions not to go to school and still call them student athletes. “Genius!” “What could go wrong?”
Go Bucs!
March 18th, 2026 at 8:39 am
Hahaha!
March 18th, 2026 at 9:02 am
Below the Matt Leinhart article about him not allowing the unretiring of his number, there’s a second article where Leinhart clarifies that he wasn’t asked to unretired his number by Lincoln Riley himself. Guessing it was recruiting staff? Just pointing out you made an assumption, probably based on the other dumb stuff Lincoln Riley has done, but I digress.
March 18th, 2026 at 9:06 am
Iowa takes down UF in the NCAA tournament.
Child, please!
LOL
March 18th, 2026 at 9:30 am
the Big Cat is Andres Galarraga, not some dude that has a podcast
March 18th, 2026 at 10:45 am
Let’s digress some more: You really believe Lincoln Riley didn’t sign off on this? Unless you are saying a staffer went over Riley’s head to the athletic director (which would be a very good way to get run from a key did in college football).
March 18th, 2026 at 12:34 pm
Are you saying the NFL players are a bunch of pussies?