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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
Distraction of the Day<\/a><\/p>\n NFL GMs don\u2019t like the shorter time between picks in the first round. If it was up to the football suits, the NFL draft would be like the old days where there was zero deadline to make a pick and the first couple of rounds would be held in a locked, private hotel conference room starting at 8 a.m. and the final picks of the draft would take place around 7 a.m. the next morning after an all-night marathon. [PFT<\/a>]<\/p>\n Answering the biggest questions in the draft. [CBS<\/a>]<\/p>\n Draft storylines! [Yahoo!<\/a>]<\/p>\n Justin Jefferson says it\u2019s good that J.J. McCarthy is under pressure. And for all you haughty NFL types (Joe\u2019s looking right at you, cocky Greg Gabriel, who treats NFL fans like drooling Neanderthals) any football fan who could watch a game on TV could tell J.J. McCarthy was grotesquely overrated and a very likely bust. But NFL folks wagged their fingers at fans and acted like McCarthy was the second coming of Dan Marino. A few years later, McCarthy may lose his job to runaround quarterback Kyler Murray. Always remember and never forget if an NFL GM nails 6 out of 10 picks, he\u2019s looking at a Hall of Fame career. Let\u2019s not act like NFL personnel folks are neurosurgeons. [NFL<\/a>]<\/p>\n Did this dude lose a bet? [TikTok<\/a>]<\/p>\n Mike Tomlin replaces Father Dungy on NBC. Now, if he can only help NBC rid itself of those dumbarse PFF tribe grades that assault innocent viewers each week. [The Athletic<\/a>]<\/p>\n John Lynch said now that AI is here, you don\u2019t need to be an expert at picking players; AI does it for you. Joe isn\u2019t sure that\u2019s good or bad. Look, Joe loves Lynch but if Bucs AC\/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht pulled the same stunts Lynch has with the draft (Joe can think of at least three first-round picks Lynch has set fire to), Licht wouldn\u2019t be able to walk out of his house without getting punched or having a beer bottle thrown at him. The 49ers may have won three Super Bowls under Mike Shanahan if Lynch wasn\u2019t otherwise too busy throwing away first-round picks. [Awful Announcing<\/a>]<\/p>\n Meanwhile in New Jersey as the Mets extend their losing streak to 12 games\u2026 [X<\/a>]<\/p>\n Lawd! This seems like such an unwatchable show. BSPN launches its own version of \u201cJeopardy\u201d hosted by \u2014 hold onto your seats \u2014 Joe Buck. This guy wants to be David Letterman so, so badly. His schtick is awful and what makes it worse is he always preens into the camera with a \u201cGee, aren\u2019t I smart\u201d smirk on his grill after he drops yet another awful one-liner. He\u2019s like a third-grader with a bad joke who says, \u201cGet it? Get it?\u201d And this show would be filled by all the \u201cI\u2019m-smarter-than-you\u201d types at the four-letter. You know who they are, all the ones you hate. This has high potential of being one of the worst things that outfit produces, which is saying a whole lot. Didn\u2019t \u201cStump the Schwab\u201d fail? And people loved \u201cThe Schwab,\u201d the late Howie Schwab. So what makes anyone think this will succeed? Apparently, BSPN, which does monumental amounts of research, didn\u2019t research how much Buck turns off viewers with a very unlikeable TV presence. Really, Buck hosting \u201cJeopardy\u201d with BSPN types as contestants is like an \u201cOnion\u201d article or \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d skit come to life. Unreal! [Front Office Sports<\/a>]<\/p>\n Fun at Whataburger. [Outkick<\/a>]<\/p>\n You can get arrested for doing this in public, too, can\u2019t you? Watch that right hand, son. You\u2019re toying with a billion dollars and a soft, comfortable life of total bliss. Careful! [Instagram<\/a>]<\/p>\n Agitated pitbull vs. javelinas. [TikTok<\/a>]<\/p>\n Here\u2019s Mike Vrabel\u2019s statement pic.twitter.com\/LkY8FypVy1<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Mark Daniels (@ByMarkDaniels) April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Please do not take Jeremiyah Love at 3 overall pic.twitter.com\/9TY8bxWdCO<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Benjamin Solak (@BenjaminSolak) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t