Morning Cup Of Joe
February 3rd, 2025
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.
Ryan Day doesn’t rule out jumping to NFL. [PFT]
Some crazy Eagles fan is going to try to kidnap Taylor Swift on Sunday, just for a few hours at least given this data. [CBS]
Brandon Graham not ruled out for Super Bowl. Yet. [Yahoo!]
Eagles-Rams to be the first NFL game in Australia in October 2026. [FOX Sports]
Five burning draft questions. [NFL]
Bill Burr is absolutely correct. True football fans don’t do Super Bowl parties. People natter constantly during the game and then shut up during commercials. It’s bass-ackwards. [TikTok]
Tom Brady, Pete Carroll hire Chip Kelly to be Raiders offensive coordinator. [Las Vegas Review-Journal]
Angel Reese pays off mom’s mortgage. Wait a minute, Joe thought she couldn’t make rent? [Outkick]
Julie Stewart-Jar-Jar-Binks joins the FS1 fray. She files suit claiming she was assaulted by a FOX Sports suit. [The Athletic]
Matt Rhule and the NCAA need to get their acts together. Rhule wants to get rid of Nebraska spring games because he says his players get poached after other coaches watch the games. Well, those spring games are major revenue producers (Joe has a hunch that FOX/B1G Network has it in their contract that schools must televise spring games). Gotta have funds to pay for players. First it was dudes leaving teams in the playoffs and now it’s spring games being canceled. Let the players unionize so then you can have these guys under contract for a calendar year (ending when a team plays its last game). So what next, Rhule, wanna quit televising regular season games so coaches don’t poach your players in December? This is just stupid. [Sportico]
Dogs weirded out by glass bridges. So is Joe. [TikTok]
.@heykayadams official Skyline Chili x Graters Ice Cream taste test 🍨🌶️@graeters + @Skyline_Chili = 💯
No notes. pic.twitter.com/GPj5nG66hJ
— Up & Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) January 30, 2025
https://twitter.com/F_VANHOOK/status/1885479042138226890
February 3rd, 2025 at 4:31 am
Okay, looking at that data of how Kelce does when Taylor is watching him play, the Bucs were the only team to let Kelce get double digit grabs, 14, and only one of 2 teams that let him hit the century mark in yardage…… Simply another explanation point of how bad the Bucs were in soft zone coverage either because the Bucs did not have the talent on the field to run Bowles’ schemes or that Bowles’ schemes were simply exposed (thanks to Payton in that Bronco’s game)….
BTW, Kay Adams would probably double viewer ratings on any of the major sports networks by simply eating her breakfast on camera as it beats listening to the talking heads on most of these national outlets! Then again I would take reruns of Denise Austin from the ’90s over the content BSPN2 has been putting out there this past decade….
February 3rd, 2025 at 4:41 am
Kay Adams eating ice cream could/should double the ratings of any morning show on BSPN or BSPN2……
February 3rd, 2025 at 4:48 am
BTW, nice to see that Kelce got roughly double his normal yardage (the highest total when Taylor Swift was watching him) against Tampa during that MNF fiasco and almost 3 times his average number of receptions for all games. Lets hear it for that soft zone that was a mainstay of the Bucs’ 2024 defensive scheme!
February 3rd, 2025 at 5:24 am
Matt Ruhle has always struggled with logic and good sense. Other schools already know who they’re targeting. Some scripted, prow-bowl-esque spring game on TV isn’t going to change that. Now, your younger players have less of a chance to grow and develop during the spring and he’ll be one step further behind at a school whose talent has fallen wayyyy behind the last decade. Why would anyone want to play at Nebraska if they can’t be seen and then can’t juice up their NIL deal further?
February 3rd, 2025 at 5:34 am
The NFL cares that the TV is on the game, not if the game is being watched and enjoyed. Hence the commercials and ridiculous halftime concerts. I remember an earlier Super Bowl and halftime entertainment was the Tulane University band! That’s when people were there for football.
February 3rd, 2025 at 7:01 am
Matt Rhule had a roster with Mayfield, Darnold, McCaffrey, and DJ Moore and couldn’t even get the stove to pre-heat
Those players who bolted in spring probably were the ones who “poached” other coaches
February 3rd, 2025 at 7:47 am
How many times will we have to look at Swift with her excited open mouth pose?
What has happened to football?
February 3rd, 2025 at 8:19 am
“People natter constantly during the game and then shut up during commercials. It’s bass-ackwards” In the famous words of Marissa Tomei aka Mona Lisa Vito, “Dead on balls accurate”
My worst Superbowl experience ever was with extended family in NYC. Giants v. Patriots. Imagine comments in a super loud, shrill New York accented voice such as “HEY! What does everyone think of my new drapes!!?” ALL. GAME. LONG.
As for the commercials…every single time, screaming this comment, “I don’t get it!!” Miserable experience. Thanks for dredging up THAT memory Joe Squared.
February 3rd, 2025 at 8:25 am
Your link for the burning draft questions goes to MVP awards.
February 3rd, 2025 at 8:47 am
Poor dogs are scared. Don’t force them out there.
February 3rd, 2025 at 8:53 am
Bingo!
February 3rd, 2025 at 8:54 am
Haha!
February 3rd, 2025 at 9:31 am
“How many times will we have to look at Swift with her excited open mouth pose?
What has happened to football?”
I won’t see her at all. First Super Bowl I won’t watch since I was 9 years old. I’m 61 now.
February 3rd, 2025 at 9:46 am
Maybe Joe has missed a half-dozen Super Bowls. Once involuntarily (was very sick). Most of the Belichick Super Bowls Joe never watched. If the Belicheats lost, Joe would watch the replay on NFL Network the next night.
Dixie Chicks vs. Patriots? Barf. Never watched one play of that game. 🤮
Always like watching Mahomes so this game doesn’t bother Joe. Really don’t give a damn about Swift (but am fully triggered by Kelce’s old hag of a mother networks shove down our through).
February 3rd, 2025 at 2:48 pm
Imagine caring about Taylor Swift being on TV for 60 or 70 seconds during a 3.5 hour broadcast…
Myles Garrett requesting a trade out of Cleveland… DO IT JASON!!!
February 3rd, 2025 at 8:14 pm
Angel reese got that Cereal $$ coming in now.
I would give up a 1st and Jamal Dean for Myles Garrett. He is actually a steal at 23 million each year for the next 2 seasons.
People upset because the camera shows Swift in a booth is dumb to me. Who cares? You are not missing the game because of it.
Graters ice cream is awesome…. skyline chili is horrific.
NIL and the portal need to be revamped and fast. Destroying the college game.
February 3rd, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Can we get Kay Admas an ice cream cone and let her eating that run on a loop?