{"id":658299,"date":"2026-01-06T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/658299\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:34:12","slug":"morning-cup-of-joe-joebucsfan-com-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/658299\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Cup Of Joe &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-204200 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cup-of-joe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Welcome to your Morning Cup of Joe, an eye-opener to help Joe\u2019s readers ease into their busy workday with a few football links, wacky news and a pleasant distraction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ohpollyswim\/video\/7589958485303889183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Distraction of the Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2025\/12\/not-that-long-ago-bucs-coaches-held-players-responsible-for-being-stupid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">That dumbass linebacker<\/a> 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. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/colts-claim-lb-john-bullock-off-waivers-from-the-bucs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PFT<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ranking NFL playoff teams. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/ranking-nfl-playoff-teams-rams-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CBS<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dan Campbell has an interesting grade he gave his team for the 2025 season. [<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/article\/lions-coach-dan-campbell-grades-his-season-as-a-freaking-f-after-missing-playoffs-224952012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Yahoo!<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tua fully endorses Dolphins trading him. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/tua-tagovailoa-dolphins-fresh-start-benching\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NFL<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Houston Nutt with some cool stories about playing for Jimmy Johnson. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@meteorologiststingray\/video\/7584633278095789343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How the hell is Matty Ice going to successfully run the Dixie Chicks football operations if he is working a side gig with CBS? [<a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/cbs\/matt-ryan-hoping-retain-tv-job-working-atlanta-falcons.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Awful Announcing<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">TV networks ready to break out the checkbooks for Mike Tomlin. [<a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/potential-tv-bidding-war-for-mike-tomlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Front Office Sports<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Texas Tech signed Cincinnati quarterback Brendan Sorsby to a $5 million deal for the 2026 season. That\u2019s 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. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/47505128\/qb-brendan-sorsby-top-player-portal-commits-texas-tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BSPN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We live in a football world. The sooner people embrace this, the better we will be as a people. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/college-football-playoff-ratings-rose-bowl-indiana-alabama-viewership-surge-ole-miss-miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Outkick<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Circus #fail. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/t\/ZThRk1mUC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">&#8220;Who has a nail, because Jim Harbaugh has a coffin&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmanuelAcho?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@EmmanuelAcho<\/a> DESTROYS Jim Harbaugh after poor play calling in Ravens&#8217; season-ending loss to the Steelers<\/p>\n<p>WE ARE LIVE IN THE SPEAKEASY RIGHT NOW! COME JOIN THE CHAT \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f4H3dQB55c\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/f4H3dQB55c<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BxtiNUgXPb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BxtiNUgXPb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Speakeasy (@speakeasytlkshw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/speakeasytlkshw\/status\/2008038076774514947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">The Ravens have a roster construction problem\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Ben Solak breaks it down:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjaminSolak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BenjaminSolak<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heykayadams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@heykayadams<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qrpYUWCn30\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/qrpYUWCn30<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Up &amp; Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UpAndAdamsShow\/status\/2008256138274615395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to your Morning Cup of Joe, an eye-opener to help Joe\u2019s readers ease into their busy workday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-658299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-bucs-message-boards","10":"tag-bucs-news","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115847945500756329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}