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

NFL GMs don’t like the shorter time between picks in the first round. If it was up to the football suits, the NFL draft would be like the old days where there was zero deadline to make a pick and the first couple of rounds would be held in a locked, private hotel conference room starting at 8 a.m. and the final picks of the draft would take place around 7 a.m. the next morning after an all-night marathon. [PFT]

Answering the biggest questions in the draft. [CBS]

Draft storylines! [Yahoo!]

Justin Jefferson says it’s good that J.J. McCarthy is under pressure. And for all you haughty NFL types (Joe’s looking right at you, cocky Greg Gabriel, who treats NFL fans like drooling Neanderthals) any football fan who could watch a game on TV could tell J.J. McCarthy was grotesquely overrated and a very likely bust. But NFL folks wagged their fingers at fans and acted like McCarthy was the second coming of Dan Marino. A few years later, McCarthy may lose his job to runaround quarterback Kyler Murray. Always remember and never forget if an NFL GM nails 6 out of 10 picks, he’s looking at a Hall of Fame career. Let’s not act like NFL personnel folks are neurosurgeons. [NFL]

Did this dude lose a bet? [TikTok]

Mike Tomlin replaces Father Dungy on NBC. Now, if he can only help NBC rid itself of those dumbarse PFF tribe grades that assault innocent viewers each week. [The Athletic]

John Lynch said now that AI is here, you don’t need to be an expert at picking players; AI does it for you. Joe isn’t sure that’s good or bad. Look, Joe loves Lynch but if Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht pulled the same stunts Lynch has with the draft (Joe can think of at least three first-round picks Lynch has set fire to), Licht wouldn’t be able to walk out of his house without getting punched or having a beer bottle thrown at him. The 49ers may have won three Super Bowls under Mike Shanahan if Lynch wasn’t otherwise too busy throwing away first-round picks. [Awful Announcing]

Meanwhile in New Jersey as the Mets extend their losing streak to 12 games… [X]

Lawd! This seems like such an unwatchable show. BSPN launches its own version of “Jeopardy” hosted by — hold onto your seats — Joe Buck. This guy wants to be David Letterman so, so badly. His schtick is awful and what makes it worse is he always preens into the camera with a “Gee, aren’t I smart” smirk on his grill after he drops yet another awful one-liner. He’s like a third-grader with a bad joke who says, “Get it? Get it?” And this show would be filled by all the “I’m-smarter-than-you” types at the four-letter. You know who they are, all the ones you hate. This has high potential of being one of the worst things that outfit produces, which is saying a whole lot. Didn’t “Stump the Schwab” fail? And people loved “The Schwab,” the late Howie Schwab. So what makes anyone think this will succeed? Apparently, BSPN, which does monumental amounts of research, didn’t research how much Buck turns off viewers with a very unlikeable TV presence. Really, Buck hosting “Jeopardy” with BSPN types as contestants is like an “Onion” article or “Saturday Night Live” skit come to life. Unreal! [Front Office Sports]

Fun at Whataburger. [Outkick]

You can get arrested for doing this in public, too, can’t you? Watch that right hand, son. You’re toying with a billion dollars and a soft, comfortable life of total bliss. Careful! [Instagram]

Agitated pitbull vs. javelinas. [TikTok]

Here’s Mike Vrabel’s statement pic.twitter.com/LkY8FypVy1

— Mark Daniels (@ByMarkDaniels) April 21, 2026

Please do not take Jeremiyah Love at 3 overall pic.twitter.com/9TY8bxWdCO

— Benjamin Solak (@BenjaminSolak) April 20, 2026