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.
That dumbass linebacker who may have cost the Bucs a playoff berth in a loss two weeks ago at Carolina, and perhaps cost people jobs, was cut on Friday by the Bucs and he got signed by the Colts. Hope for his sake his smartens up. Idiot. [PFT]
Ranking NFL playoff teams. [CBS]
Dan Campbell has an interesting grade he gave his team for the 2025 season. [Yahoo!]
Tua fully endorses Dolphins trading him. [NFL]
Houston Nutt with some cool stories about playing for Jimmy Johnson. [TikTok]
How the hell is Matty Ice going to successfully run the Dixie Chicks football operations if he is working a side gig with CBS? [Awful Announcing]
TV networks ready to break out the checkbooks for Mike Tomlin. [Front Office Sports]
Texas Tech signed Cincinnati quarterback Brendan Sorsby to a $5 million deal for the 2026 season. That’s more than Shedeur Sanders is making in Cleveland. The good news? If quarterbacks stay in college longer because they can make more money than being an NFL benchwarmer, that should lead to less quarterback busts in the NFL, which means better quarterback play. [BSPN]
We live in a football world. The sooner people embrace this, the better we will be as a people. [Outkick]
Circus #fail. [TikTok]
“Who has a nail, because Jim Harbaugh has a coffin”
– @EmmanuelAcho DESTROYS Jim Harbaugh after poor play calling in Ravens’ season-ending loss to the Steelers
WE ARE LIVE IN THE SPEAKEASY RIGHT NOW! COME JOIN THE CHAT ➡️ https://t.co/f4H3dQB55c pic.twitter.com/BxtiNUgXPb
— Speakeasy (@speakeasytlkshw) January 5, 2026
The Ravens have a roster construction problem…
Ben Solak breaks it down:@BenjaminSolak | @heykayadams pic.twitter.com/qrpYUWCn30
— Up & Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) January 5, 2026