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

Saint Lamar Jackson vows he will return this year. [PFT]

Trade deadline updates, rumors. [CBS]

Now J.J. McCarthy is hurt. Again. Jameis to the rescue! Again. [Yahoo!]

Trade grades. [NFL]

Fun piece on the first time the NFL went to Tokyo. (The old dude in the crowd yelling “banzai!” is… different.) [YouTube]

It seems Front Office Sports has unearthed who NFL adultress, self-described MILF (ahem) and disgraced NFL insider Dianna Russini is working for. She’s scheduled to surface this week with her new platform. [Front Office Sports]

It’s coming true. Last year at the combine, Joe told KitKat-eating Bucs coach Todd Bowles that the most hated man in the sport has to be Indiana coach Curt Cignetti. Bowles, whose son Troy is a starting linebacker at Michigan, asked Joe why he said that. Joe replied, “Because if you are a suit at Florida State or Clemson or Auburn or LSU or USC, you have a sitdown and ask your coach, ‘Hey, the guy at Indiana only needed two years to turn one of the worst programs in football history into a national champion; how come with all the money you make and the facilities and recruiting base you have, you can’t even get to the playoffs?” …Bowles told Joe, “You’re probably right.” And now, the Cignetti Standard is being used against Pat Fitzgerald at Michigan State, who hasn’t won one B1G game yet. [The Athletic]

LOL First it was Curt Cignetti. Then it was Kirk Ferentz. Now it’s Bret Bielema who tees off on the SEC. Bielema claims his Illinois squad would be a playoff team if the Illini played in the SEC. Ha! C’mon Bert. It’s one thing to beat South Carolina in a bowl game. You’re at Illinois. Red Grange, Dick Butkus, Jeff George nor Simeon Rice are walking through that tunnel. [Outkick]

The creator, curator and overall guru of Pro Football Talk, the great Mike Florio, has taken a stance on adultress and self-proclaimed MILF (ahem) Dianna Russini. The disgraced NFL insider must first come clean about her dalliances with Mike Vrabel before Florio will ever reference her future work. Why? In her only two public statements since she was exposed as a homewrecker, she denied having a thing with Vrabel despite undeniable evidence to the contrary. Therefore, Florio notes, why and how can he believe anything she reports? Florio is dead-on correct. Aside from being an adultress, a fraud and grossly unethical in her profession, she’s a flat out liar. Therefore, what else may she be lying about for (ahem) favors? [Awful Announcing]

Wild! [TikTok]

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— Gruden Family Football Show (@GrudenFamilyFS) November 6, 2026

The Definitive Notre Dame Dorm Pizza Rankings – Alumni vs Dunne vs Keenan pic.twitter.com/WOscjfdDF1

— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) November 6, 2026

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