Morning Cup Of Joe
December 23rd, 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.
Would the Crows really can John Harbaugh? [PFT]
DK Metcalf’s suspension triggers a $45 million void of guaranteed money per his contract. Wow! What. An. Idiot. [CBS]
Winners and losers in Week 16. [Yahoo!]
Washed Travis Kelce leads Pro Bowl vote. Taylor Swift had something to do with this, didn’t she? [NFL]
Shannon Sharp has some thoughts on Lawrence Taylor. [TikTok]
Chiefs moving 21 miles west, where the State of Kansas will build them a new $3 billion dome and a new team headquarters/practice facility. Damn, Gracie is a savvy negotiator. [Kansas City Star]
The hidden technology behind NFL games. [Front Office Sports]
Man, this disgraced former Michigan coach Sherrod Moore was one horny SOB. Apparently, he would slide into the DMs of various women in sports media right before kickoffs and right after his press conferences. No wonder Michigan’s offense sucked, look where his head was during games. And then there was the report that he DM’ed an Only Fans model during the Rose Bowl. Dude had no filter. LOL [The Athletic]
When are these talking heads going to learn if the college football playoff bans the small schools, the very next day they will get slapped with an antitrust lawsuit? [Awful Announcing]
Fun at Texas high school state championships in Jerry’s World. [Outkick]
Dude’s hungry. [X]
Work #Fail. [TikTok]
The morning of the Bucs-Chiefs Super Bowl, Tom Brady was still texting his teammates clips of film to let them know what he wanted against different defensive looks.
“All my teammates were like, ‘This dude is a complete psycho.’”pic.twitter.com/oOT7vbxYWQ
— Henry McKenna (@henrycmckenna) December 19, 2025
"Coach @BarstoolGruden was singing this Johnny Cash song, and he's telling us to watch out for the Ravens… The Ravens are dead, the Patriots put a stake in them last night, what are you singing about today coach!" – @stoolpresidente pic.twitter.com/ipaFvJ72Jr
— Wake Up Barstool (@wakeupbarstool) December 22, 2025
December 23rd, 2025 at 4:39 am
OMG, Gruden trying to sing the Johnny Cash song was priceless. He may want to stick with football though, lol.
Brady, living and breathing football 24/7. So funny, but his diligence is commended.
Winners and Losers – Bills are lucky to have James Cook. However, they are struggling. Mike Tomlin is no longer on the hot seat. Everyone seems to be on the Panthers bandwagon, until they won’t be. They play the Seahawks next. They are 12-3 and we beat them.
December 23rd, 2025 at 5:25 am
If Harbaugh gets canned, someone will pick him up immediately. Of course it will not be the Bucs, they would botch it up but someone else will get a great coach and then the Ravens will probably promote Monken, thus removing one good candidate from the Bucs’ short list to replace Todd B. Its a Bucs life. Fire Bowles.
December 23rd, 2025 at 5:56 am
It seems like DK Metcalf has a stalker. I think that needs to be accounted for by the league. This won’t end well for DK if he loses his guaranteed millions, but I believe the league has a duty to protect players. Sounds like that “fan” had been reported 3 separate occasions to Lions security for harassing Metcalf. I would be prepared to sue the Lions or the NFL if it goes down in any way but getting paid my guarantee.
December 23rd, 2025 at 6:02 am
I would love to have Mr harbaugh here at OBP but I don’t see the glazers pursuing that if he’s canned and got rid of TB. That was one expensive punch Mr metcalf. Yikes!
December 23rd, 2025 at 6:08 am
And I’ll say it again, we were so lucky to have Brady. Mayfield can’t hold his jock
December 23rd, 2025 at 6:47 am
Sharp is dead on about L.T. L.T. was a must watch athlete, like Jordan. He destroyed offenses and made everyone around him better.
December 23rd, 2025 at 7:01 am
CleanHouse. If you’d of ever played a snap of football you’d know football players don’t use the term “hold his jock”. It’s “carry his jock”. Like “you couldn’t carry Baker Mayfield’s jockstrap, CleanHouse”. I’m so tired of effing trolls.
December 23rd, 2025 at 7:14 am
I think the point is not that LT couldn’t play against today’s NFL athletes it is he couldn’t play in today’s NFL rules. The defense is completely hamstrung by the rule book compared to the 80’s
December 23rd, 2025 at 7:44 am
Cliché police.
December 23rd, 2025 at 7:48 am
Donny-
I can’t think of anyone in todays game that could stop L.T.’s knowledge of what is about to happen and how to disrupt the play. Whatever the rules are.
December 23rd, 2025 at 7:54 am
Even if Gracie Hunt were ten times better looking and ten times more wealthy, I would RUN in the other direction. Any person who looks to “god” for influence or as an outlet for showing gratitude is delusional, at best.
Enough with the Bronze Age mentality!
December 23rd, 2025 at 8:02 am
An Erection for Sacks. I’m not a religious man either. However…
December 23rd, 2025 at 8:20 am
Hey erection for sacks and Kenton, give The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel a read. Written by an atheist journalist whose goal was to prove Christianity wrong because his wife became a Christian and he thought it was absurd. Hope you both have a lovely Christmas and go Bucs!