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Morning Cup Of Joe

December 2nd, 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.

Distraction of the Day

As bad as the Steelers’ offense was Sunday, the Vikings may have been worse. Unlike Pittsburgh, Minnesota is supposed to have a hotshot young offensive genius as a coach. Pittsburgh has Artie Smith. [PFT]

No, the Stinking Panthers are not close to the surprise team in the NFL. They are not even in first place in their own lousy division. Calm down. The real surprise is the Bears. They were horrible last year. Right now they own the No. 1 seed in the NFC. You can make a case for the first-place Jags being the surprise team of the season. Not the Stinking Panthers. [CBS]

Which teams were eliminated from the playoffs on Sunday? [Yahoo!]

If Bills make the playoffs, is Josh Allen the league MVP? [NFL]

How to get benched. [TikTok]

So let Joe get this straight: Capt. Lou Albano says Mike Tomlin is not the problem in Pittsburgh and in the next sentence, says Tomlin’s defense is the problem and the players that Tomlin picked are the problem. Uuuhhhmmm… [SI]

Shedeur Sanders doesn’t like Cleveland reporters trying to bait him. [FOX]

Mike Tomlin says he understands why Pittsburghers are peeved. Does he? Why then is that waste of an empty headset of an offensive coordinator still allowed to steal money from the Rooney family? In succession, Artie Smith has thieved from Bud Adams, Artie Blank and the past couple of years, the Rooney clan. [Outkick]

Penn State after BYU coach Kalani Sitake? This is very interesting. Recruiting at Penn State will be light-years easier for Sitake than at BYU (for example, Penn State players, unlike BYU players, are allowed to sleep with women). And Sitake is an excellent coach on good, ol’ fashioned fundamentals and playing tough football. He likes to throw the ball around a bit too. This is very intriguing. Sort of like a lesser-known Bret Bielema. Joe still thinks Brian Hartline is the uber smart move for Penn State. [Football Scoop]

If the college football playoff committee had any ethics, standards and morals, it would pull a Florida State on Ole Miss. Hey, if an undefeated team can be locked out of the playoffs because of a quarterback injury, then why not lock out a team that lost most of its coaching staff, including both the head coach and offensive coordinator? [Front Office Sports]

Goalie fight at center ice is always fun and the home team and the home crowd seemed to agree. [X]

This guy is a professional. [TikTok]

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