Morning Cup Of Joe
April 24th, 2026
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.
Steelers owner Art Rooney II said the chances of Pittsburgh getting a Super Bowl without a new domed stadium are slim to none. And he added he will never agree to the Steelers building a dome. [PFT]
Biggest steals and busts for teams the past five years. [CBS]
The season that got Fernando Mendoza to love football. [Yahoo!]
Todd Monken doesn’t seem to be worried about Myles Garrett blowing off Browns workouts. Or is he? [NFL]
How teams determine the value of a draft pick. [NFL]
And here’s the bombshell the New York Post was holding back. And now we know why Mike Vrabel is skipping out on part of the draft. This is what the newspaper industry calls the “smoking gun.” Who is laughing now, Mikey? Six years, Mike? Six years? [New York Post]
Ten teams that can become contenders if they nail the draft this weekend. [FOX Sports]
Joe rags on BSPN a lot because the four-letter provides Joe with so much firewood. Sometimes, they get things right. For example: BSPN does a pretty good job covering the NFL. It does a great job covering college football (better than FOX) and college basketball (much better than Turner/CBS). BSPN does a horrendous job covering baseball. The following is great on the surface, and bad in the long run: BSPN suits have, for the time being, killed any talk about a 24-team college football playoff. Thank goodness! The bad: This sort of reinforces #FSUTwitter that BSPN suits conspired to keep them out of the playoffs in 2023. Why does BSPN wield so much power with the playoffs? They own the broadcasting rights to the playoffs. College football has zero business with 12-team playoff, forget 24-team. It should go back to the BCS days where the winners of the four major bowls go to the semifinals. [Awful Announcing]
Not surprising: Hulk Hogan ate a lot of painkillers just to function. [TMZ]
Lingerie Wars. [Outkick]
This is the best ad read Joe has seen/heard since Howard Stern’s old WWOR-TV show when he did an ad for 1-800-MATTRESS — when he walked in front of a bed with a comely blonde laying there in scanty lingerie and Stern said, “How would you like to come home to this tonight? Well, you might if you call 1-800-MATTRESS.” You just know Chip Carey caught hell from the softies for this, yet the Cardinals trot out women like this as their sweet, innocent, girl-next-door ballgirls. [TikTok]
"Stop **** playing with me!"
350 lb prospect @KadynProctor1 showed crazy explosiveness at @AlabamaFTBL's Pro Day 😳 pic.twitter.com/DLhj9f6iMS
— NFL Films (@NFLFilms) April 21, 2026
.@AqibTalib21 and @Geraldini93 relive their Draft Night memories 🤩 pic.twitter.com/EI3J63UFcR
— The Arena: Gridiron (@ArenaGridiron) April 21, 2026
"I always coached the DBs..
The three critical factors are a guy has to be able to tackle, play the ball in the deep part of the field, and play man to man..
That's not all you looked at but if they can't do that you don't want that guy" ~ Coach Saban #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/b8N76FHAcl
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) April 22, 2026
April 24th, 2026 at 5:06 am
Okay so Russini and Vrable are garbage people. Vrable cheating or having an affair for 6 years and Russini going along with it for so long. Seems pretty clear that Mike will most likely be getting a divorce. Do they deserve to lose jobs? No, Russini shouldn’t have had to step down. Idk of journalistic ethics, but I don’t think she was getting any benefits (regarding doing her job) with this situation. Vrable shouldn’t have to resign, plenty of people do this unfortunately. And any kind of statement with her saying she was taken advantage of or anything of that sort (me too) would be disingenuous at this point.