Morning Cup Of Joe
November 20th, 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.
Bills plan to healthy scratch Keon Coleman tonight against Houston. Again. B-U-S-T, bust, bust, bust. He’ll likely get cut this spring. [PFT]
How safe is Raheem Morris in Atlanta? [CBS]
Chiefs left tackle Josh Simmons refuses to explain why he went MIA for much of the season but claims he is back for good. [Yahoo!]
Pro Bowl sleepers. [NFL]
Great Wilt Chamberlain story. [TikTok]
Commercial supersonic flights may return by the end of the decade and the NFL is studying this the way a hungry dog studies hot dogs on a table. Why is the NFL interested? Supersonic flights would cut travel time overseas in half. That would make traveling to and from Europe no different than it currently takes to fly cross-country. Can you say “European Division” by 2030? There’s a whole lotta gold in them thar hills in the Alps. NFL owners aren’t of the mindset of turning their noses up at billions of dollars just lying on the ground ready to be picked up. [Wall Street Journal]
Gracie Hunt not a fan of the current trend of Super Bowl halftime shows. She even advocates football fans watch an alternative halftime show this coming February. Girl, if you really believe this, you have the power to help enact change. Promise you Roger Goodell will return your call — your dad has his number. Fight the power, Gracie! [Outkick]
The stadium in Madrid the NFL used last week put to rest any doubts an NFL team can (if they wanted to) grow a grass field that can be used in a domed stadium (Las Vegas and Phoenix already do, but those are warmer climates). Maybe NFL players should fight for grass fields instead of kvetching about an 18-game schedule? It’s outrageous to Joe that John Mara and David Tepper force their players to play on turf fields but are only too happy to rip out the turf and replace it with grass for the puppy Euro kickball crowd. If NFL players have to play on glorified painted cow pastures in Europe because of kickball, then the Euro kickball puppies can play on turf in America (the fact the kickball crowd refuses to should tell you something). What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. #Sad [SI]
Cheapest and quickest way to become a football owner or a simpler path to become a football general manager? Run for governor. [Front Office Sports]
Is the Maui Invitational college basketball feast on life support? [Awful Announcing]
Malinois vs. lemon. [TikTok]
NFL meeting week 11 pic.twitter.com/wQ4BD32VsE
— Annie Agar (@AnnieAgar) November 18, 2025
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— Good Morning Football (@gmfb) November 18, 2025
November 20th, 2025 at 4:27 am
“Gracie Hunt not a fan of the current trend of Super Bowl halftime shows.”
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Now, I am a Gracie fan. Good on her.
November 20th, 2025 at 5:44 am
Annie is always a hoot! I wonder if Todd ever watches her skits. He may enjoy this one, lol.
Thinking too, there are probably a lot of changes coming to the Falcons after this season, as well as some other teams. I wonder if Raheem watches Annie’s skits.
Half-time shows – I could be wrong, but my understanding is that the performers do not get paid for their show and the NFL only covers production costs and travel. Seems like a good deal for the NFL. Unsure what they could do that wouldn’t cost them a lot more money. I am looking forward in seeing Bad Bunny perform this year. Should be lively and fun!
November 20th, 2025 at 6:04 am
No one is gonna watch Kid Rock at half time. Bring back In Living Color and I think about watching it.
November 20th, 2025 at 6:32 am
Joe – Great find about Wilt.
November 20th, 2025 at 7:58 am
I was in Kid Rocks bar in Nashville a month ago on a Wednesday at about 12:30 in the afternoon and there were about 500 people in it. Every bar, restaurant and honkey tonk in Nash Vegas was busy, really busy, andsome of the newer ones were fully packed, at 12:30. 35,000 people came to see Post Malone play on a Wednesday night. I don’t even like the genre personally, over produced and formulated, to each his own, but to suggest that no one is gonna watch Kid Rock and/or his contemporaries is wrong. Having a choice is a good thing.
November 20th, 2025 at 8:19 am
Not very. He sucks as a head coach and that organization is a disaster. With that draft pick they had an opportunity to strengthen their offense for Kirk Cousins, but instead they decided to create a QB controversy right out of the gate.
The Super Bowl is an international game and Bad Bunny is an international star. There are very few talents out there who are bigger than him. After the infamous wardrobe malfunction we had a string of geezers performing halftime shows. That said, I agree that there hasn’t been nearly enough country stars doing the show.
November 20th, 2025 at 8:24 am
Lord Farquad into Tom Brady, LOLOL
November 20th, 2025 at 9:16 am
Lol. I highly doubt Public Enemy would approve of Gracie Hunt’s Super Bowl ideas. All this Bad Bunny stuff hate is either deep-rooted or manufactured rage. I’m not familiar with his music, but he’s a global star that I’m curious to see over a bunch of has-beens with an agenda of their own.
November 20th, 2025 at 10:27 am
The only halftime show I even remember the performer is the Janet Jackson show. And only because I MISSED the ‘wardrobe’ malfunction!
The commercials are historically far more entertaining.
November 20th, 2025 at 10:30 am
The roadies who set up and remove the staging are far far more impressive to me!
November 20th, 2025 at 12:11 pm
I may watch the Puppy Bowl rather than Bad Bunny…
November 20th, 2025 at 12:33 pm
MAGA Gracie……..no thanks. MAGA is a dying fad and she’s a nepo baby who can hire any Christian Country act for her Birthday party she wants, leave my Super Bowl alone. Or just show season highlights. (preferably)
November 20th, 2025 at 3:44 pm
No one complained about Shakira (Not a citizen) but all this uproar about Bad Bunny (citizen).