Morning Cup Of Joe
November 4th, 2025
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.
The news about Marshon Lattimore will just ruin most Bucs fans’ day. [PFT]
Crows trade for an edge rusher with bottom-feeder Tennessee. [CBS]
Zac Taylor sticking with Al Golden running the woeful Bengals defense. [Yahoo!]
Chargers’ Joe Alt needs ankle surgery. Lost for the season. [NFL]
Delivery fail. [TikTok]
Former CBS Sports president Van Gordon Sauter ordered the Tiffany Network’s suits to promote John Madden to the No. 1 NFL analyst without ever watching a game that Madden worked. Why? Because Sauter loved Madden in the old Miller Lite commercials and thought that Madden’s personality would be perfect for a No. 1 crew. [Front Office Sports]
How does BSPN treat former employees? [Awful Announcing]
Is baseball really the No. 3 sport in America? [Outkick]
Dogs aren’t hip with the time change over the weekend. [TikTok]
Ranting on the Chicago Bears, who just won the most hilarious horrible game of the year. pic.twitter.com/F7rJNIOvSy
— Kyle Brandt (@KyleBrandt) November 3, 2025
The Commanders need to make sure they don't fail Jayden Daniels moving forward@heykayadams pic.twitter.com/yiz0SkFF3P
— Up & Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) November 3, 2025
November 4th, 2025 at 4:36 am
Kay Adams did a great and delicate job of summing-up Jayden’s injury and everything distressed by it.
No blame game, but am thinking back to many of our own Bucs with injuries and Chris getting hurt late in a game from a dirty play. Mike getting hurt. Last minute decisions and game-changers.
November 4th, 2025 at 6:10 am
Less filling -tastes great were some of the best commercials.
November 4th, 2025 at 6:54 am
Loved the MLB article. People love nostalgia, and what’s more nostalgic than MLB? With all the cultural issues being forced upon America it’s no wonder people want to reminisce about a safer, saner time. The NBA started falling off the cliff in 2020? Cause and effect.
November 4th, 2025 at 7:52 am
Yep. I dont get that extra hour sleep. Pets clocks don’t change.
November 4th, 2025 at 7:54 am
I’ll never be an MLB fan until they put a cap in place, which will probably be never. Not enough parity for me. Rich teams usually win. I’m also not seeing the NBA isn’t flawed. College basketball is probably more popular.
Love Kyle Brandts reference to Sam Kinison. LOL Serial killer to Sam Kinison in a single moment at the end of the game. đJohnson does look like he has an ulcer, that team may put him in the hospital eventually.
November 4th, 2025 at 8:14 am
Yes baseball is third. KABucks hit the nail on the head. Without a salary cap and real parity, they will always be third.
November 4th, 2025 at 8:27 am
Joe, you’ve been saying it for months and I’m finally reading it elsewhere. The 2nd most popular sports in the US is clearly College Football. I find this line from the article really interesting:
“The NBA has lost popularity every season since 2020, while baseball has recorded gains in both national and local markets.”
The NBA fully pushed masking, vax mandates, and took every opportunity to tell their audience how raycyst white America is after George Floyd. That’s on top of how much the game has changed where we have 7’5″ players shooting 3’s.
November 4th, 2025 at 8:59 am
Heyjude- what are we talking about here by sayin âMike getting hurtâ? Should we not have thrown him the ball? Should he not play? Why would you throw him in here.
While weâre on it, weâve seen insane historic comebacks every single year. You donât count your team out ever anymore. What if the Broncos took everyone out down that big against the Giants?
These guys want to compete. Itâs a brutal sport and injuries are going to happen. You canât possibly blame anyone for a football player getting hurt.
November 4th, 2025 at 9:43 am
My dog was definitely disoriented after the time change. And anxious. Like, “WELL, I am waiting for chow time!” LOL
November 4th, 2025 at 11:52 am
What finally turned me off the NBA was the loss of team identities. Player mobility is chaotic. Once upon a time, i knew at least the stars of all the teams and the names of all the players on my Lakers. And there was some sense of continuity and loyalty. Bird in Boston, jordan in Chicago, Frazier in New York. Now, King James is a traveling franchise, wearing uniforms like bumper stickers. And I citee him not as outrageous, but typical.
End of Rant.
November 4th, 2025 at 12:02 pm
The dogs ain’t alone!
November 4th, 2025 at 12:31 pm
Cosmo – Sorry, it was nothing against Mike and throwing him the ball. I was only thinking he came back from the hamstring injury. Tore us all up when he got hurt so fast again. Mike’s been my favorite player since he was at A&M with JM. I want him to get the ball. I just hate seeing him hurt.