Morning Cup Of Joe
January 14th, 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.
We live in a football world. Once people start to embrace this, the better we will be as a people. [PFT]
Is Justin Herbert a choke artist? [CBS]
Five coaches who could replace Mike Tomlin. [Yahoo!]
Kevin O’Connell fed up with J.J. McCarthy already? [NFL]
There’s no way that’s a full barrel of Buffalo Trace. [TikTok]
Tom Brady believes we’ve grown too soft as a society. [Outkick]
The dark days of a hostile takeover may come sooner than expected. Now, only the feds, it appears, can save NFL Network. [Awful Announcing]
NFL pregame shows have become, over the past few decades, one of the greatest wastes of electricity known to the free world. CBS has a chance to rethink and remake these boring arse shows now that Matty Ice is bolting. Will CBS do so? Or are we going to get the same ol’ crap like mindless pap-like feature stories, bellylaughs from lame, vapid inside (?) jokes from the panel for bumper music and straight-up picks based on the panels’ guts? [Front Office Sports]
Fun at the sports bar. [X]
“The vet.” [TikTok]
NFL wild card meeting pic.twitter.com/6dOwXNeo4x
— Annie Agar (@AnnieAgar) January 13, 2026
Kyle Shanahan is putting on one of the GREATEST coaching performances we’ve ever seen@49ers | @heykayadams pic.twitter.com/cX1MuNmQ79
— Up & Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) January 12, 2026