Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio and J.J. Watt Engaged in an Entertaining Spat on Twitter

I saw this play out in real time and was just as confused as anybody. Why in the hell would Pro Football Talk, or more importantly, Mike Florio, care about what J.J. Watt posts on Twitter?

I came across this article penned by Florio back in April where he lays into Watt for the criticism the Houston Texan had regarding social media use. Florio went at Watt pretty hard,

Last night after the U.S. men’s soccer team took the pitch to play Argentina, Watt tweeted out this photo with a rather tight kit in a show of support for the U.S., and even adding a funny line about being ready if called upon. No harm, no foul, right?

Kit is a big snug, but ready if called upon. #USAvARG pic.twitter.com/FTvx6LJ2fW

— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) June 22, 2016

Weeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllllll, not really. Florio, presumably the one running the Pro Football Talk Twitter account because who else would, stepped in and took a shot at Watt.

"Why does everyone always want to talk about me? I'm just minding my own business and seeking no attention at all." https://t.co/K67Av3zsDM

— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) June 22, 2016

Shots fired, yo. Watt retorted 23 minutes later. Because timestamps.

you do know how Twitter works, right? If you don't want to see it, stay off my page. Take your saltiness elsewhere.

— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) June 22, 2016

Stay off my page, bro. Nothing to see here if you don’t want to.

I do stay off your page. I follow your team's page. They retweeted it. That's how Twitter works, right? https://t.co/4arzpy1LzB

— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) June 22, 2016

Take your false humility elsewhere.

— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) June 22, 2016

You know what? WIP’s Josh Innes talks the same way about Watt as Florio did here. He claims Watt was a phony while he was in Houston working for 610 AM KILT. And I guess he hasn’t changed? I don’t know. I’ve never met the guy.

Funnily enough, Watt’s pinned tweet from March says the following:

No time for negativity. You're either part of the pursuit or part of the past.

— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) March 14, 2016

Ah. June. How I missed thee.