The Josh Innes Show - Deshaun's Burner Account

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

The internet believes that Deshaun Watson has a burner account he uses to defend himself on Twitter. When you read the comments, it's certainly plausible. As someone who once had a burner account, I feel it necessary to give Deshaun some advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Howdy, Jamokes! So the story that I've enjoyed reading the most about here in the last couple of days is the fall of Deshaun Watson, who's obviously terrible at football now, and I don't see a scenario where he's going to bounce back. He doesn't even seem like the same human. He's bad at football. He seems almost like a cold, calloused sociopath when you see him speak. This guy is not the same human that we saw five or six years ago when he got to Houston. Different guy. He is a Ted Bundy type of sociopath that we're seeing. It's wild. And we get to this discussion on the last couple of podcasts about Watson. Obviously, this is going to be one of the worst trades ever,

maybe the worst sports trade in history. And there are varying levels of trades. There's one player for one player, and one guy goes on to be great, and that next guy stinks. There are bad trades. Then there's Herschel Walker being traded from Dallas to Minnesota. Minnesota gets all those pieces in return and all the draft picks that allowed them to become an early 90s dynasty with Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones. There's a bunch of different levels.

There's, you know, you can think about trades and whether or not a trade was a bad trade versus a big picture, large franchise altering trade, right? And some look like they're gonna be franchise altering trades, but aren't. In some cases, neither franchise really benefits or loses in either one of them. Like example, if you look at the Ricky Williams trade with the Redskins, the Saints and the Redskins, Ricky Williams goes to New Orleans. The Saints give up all those picks.

Ricky's not very good. And Washington doesn't draft well with the picks they had. Williams goes to New Orleans the Saints give up all those picks Ricky's not very good and Washington doesn't draft well with the picks they had I think one of the picks out of all those picks they acquired became anybody worth a damn and that was LeVar Arrington other than that it was just nothing so sometimes this big earth-shattering trade happens and both sides end up losing sometimes you get trades and I'll go deep cuts for you here, but sometimes you get trades like the Cubs trade Lou Brock for Ernie Brolio and no one's ever heard of Ernie Brolio and Lou Brock becomes the all-time stolen bases leader in the 1970s, right? So like

there are trades that are obvious, like, holy shit it some both teams when you really evaluate it blew it so varying levels but when you look at how this is going to really destroy the browns as a franchise they've got nowhere to go like i've been trying to find more details and read online about how they can get out of this deal. There's virtually very little they can do to get out of this without giving up a billion dollars. Seemingly I'm being exaggerating, but without giving up millions upon millions of dollars. And their best bet is if somehow Deshaun knew about this latest allegation and didn't tell them that this was going to happen when he signed the deal. And at that point, I think they can get out of a lot of this, but who knows? At this point,

this is going to be the worst trade in history. And we've seen some bad ones. Look at what we saw in Houston with DeAndre Hopkins for that trade, which we look at it in a vacuum and go, holy shit, that's a terrible trade. But that didn't destroy the Houston Texans. A couple years later, they're back. You know what I'm saying? It's not going to unravel the franchise. You're not stuck with that. It sucks. It was a bad deal. You lost a good player that could have helped you. But it's not like that trade at the end of it all ruined a franchise, a deal that ruined the franchise, a contract that ruined the franchise. That didn't happen. The Cleveland Browns are ruined and the Houston Texans were essentially catapulted by this deal. Like this doesn't happen all that often where a franchise

completely changes their trajectory to an up and the other one completely falls off a cliff and sets themselves back for a decade. That's how big this was. It was monumental. And it's just fascinating to watch it all unravel. And it's fun to watch it all unravel, because as we sit here as people who watch the Texans, enjoy the Texans, consume the product,

love that we can go out every weekend, whether it's at home on the road, like I was in Indianapolis last weekend, and I can put on Texans gear and I can say, holy shit, we walk into any building right now and we can win because we've got a guy that's good, seemingly a good dude, and gives us a chance to win every day. And then you look at what Cleveland has. It fucking feels amazing, doesn't it? And look, I don't want to be a fraud here. Everybody knows that I'm from Louisiana.

I'm a Saints fan. People get that. But I spent a lot of time in Houston. And just like I was a season ticket holder for the Astros, I went to every Texans game when I was there. Like, my wife is a diehard Texans fan my friends are seemingly all diehard Texans fans look I have a lot of passion for Houston I have a lot of passion for the city the people the teams so I feel comfortable saying we we when I talk about things that happen for teams things that happen in the city for Houston because I consider

myself part of the just part of that place. It's a special place to me, and it means a lot to me. And if you don't like that, then go fuck yourself. I will always say that because I love that place. It feels good knowing that you can go into any stadium in the NFL. And that includes Arrowhead when they're going to go there in December. That includes Baltimore. That includes Indianapolis, Detroit.

That includes any place they can step foot in. They have a chance to win every single game because they've got number seven and that feels good. And it feels even better knowing that the scummy Cleveland people took on this deal for Deshaun and they're getting burned in a mega way. Finally, it feels like from a football standpoint in Houston,

we fucking won something, and it's been forever. These breaks don't happen for Houston, particularly when it comes to football. Baseball, we get these breaks, right? Like I see people all over social media talking about the Astros, and oh my God, the Astros aren't going to win at all this year. And yeah, they just had their arguably worst loss of the year in extra innings to Oakland last night.

They had multiple chances to win it in extra innings, couldn't do it. Shitty loss. And they're not as good as they've been in the past. But you want to tell me that when you watch the Astros, you don't believe that once October rolls around, they can make some magic? They weren't supposed to make magic last year. And they got fucking competitive in that series with Texas. It was a hell of a series.

Point being is, that's how I feel when I watch the Astros. And I'm getting to that point. Obviously, there's a lot of winning that the Texans still have to do. The Texans have to actually get to the playoffs, win more playoff games, win championships to be on that Astros level. But when the Astros get to October, I believe they've got a shot to win. And now when I see the Texans take the field against anybody, when they face Pat Mahomes in December, I'm going to think they have a shot to go on the road in December, arrowhead and beat them. And I've never felt that way before. And I think most of you have never felt that way about the Texans before. And it feels fucking fantastic.

It's fun. Watching the Texans is fun every Sunday. Going to Indianapolis to watch them play was fun. Having fun, giving high fives and H-ing up for everybody that's on the road when you see them and you're wearing your Texans gear and you're in Indianapolis. They say, go Texans. You say, fucking right, let's go. That's fun. And it's also fun to revel in the misery of Cleveland. And the latest story that's made me laugh about Deshaun, and I'm someone who has experience in doing this in my past life. So I feel like I am, what's the word I'm looking for? I am uniquely qualified in a way to discuss this, but the question is, did Deshaun Watson create a burner account to defend his horrible game on Sunday? Barstool had this yesterday. Now, the accountant question is that of Leroy Bickerstaff.

Now, Leroy Bickerstaff joined X, formerly Twitter, in September of 2024. Follows nobody. And Leroy Bickerstaff essentially exists to search Deshaun Watson and then respond to people saying negative things about Deshaun Watson. Example, person Cameron Justice. Hashtag Brown's running back Jerome Ford on Deshaun Watson's leadership in the huddle. Quote, he was a warrior, hand bleeding, even when we were down, just seeing him work, seeing him fight for those extra yards, it just shows what kind of guy he is. Leroy Bickerstaff pops up and responds,

guys in the locker room got fours back all day long. It's y'all that never played the sport and don't know four like that coming on here and blaming four for not succeeding in an impossible situation first of all who the fuck refers to football players by their number that often and really that's kind of a football player thing so i kind of get where they're saying this could be the guy cam white posts a screenshot says this is a perfect ball that was dropped. Y'all got to stop the madness as if to defend Deshaun Watson. To which Leroy Bickerstaff hops in,

and we still going to sit here and act like four don't still got it. Pressured on damn near every drop back and four still standing in and delivering dots in the fourth. If that ain't hard, i don't know what is let me tell you what is a sociopathic tendency is continuing to refer to yourself as four when your burner account is sending messages and responses to people and then we've as we've discussed i feel that deshaun watson is aopath. I think you have to be to even have 20-something, 30-something sexual assault, sexual misconduct allegations against you. You have to be some level of a sociopath even to get to that point.

And you have to be a sociopath to create burner accounts and defend yourself. This person, get rid of Watson, in swoops Leroy Bickerstaff. Fool, you don't know what he goes through. Worked his ass off just to be able to play this week and battle through a broke shoulder for this franchise last time we've seen him? Perhaps I am being naive here, but I choose to believe that there's not another grown-ass man on the planet that would be that defensive and go to that defense of another grown-ass man who sucks at his job. I choose to believe that no man is that fucking lame. Although, when you see some

of these political people that'll shill for a Biden or a Trump and shill for them hard, we got a bunch of sad people. Then again, maybe I'd take this back. Have you seen the kind of shilling the people do for Taylor Swift? My God, you just say you don't like her music and the lunatic Swifties come after you on social media. By the way, what a huge upset that Taylor Swift is voting for Kamala Harris would have never thunk it. I guess she watched the debate last night and she was on the fence, but then Kamala won her over, I guess. Tom here on Twitter says, meanwhile, Baker hangs 37 on Washington, to which Leroy Bickerstaff says, crazy what a QB can do when the line blocks and coach calls good

plays. Optify on X says, Deshaun Watson's career is over, to which Leroy Bickerstaff says, Coach is ruining career of one of the best athletes of the generation. Now, here would be, again, he's a sociopath. We've established this. He has to be. But if you're going to go after people with a burner account, at some point it is possible, I think, to trace this back to him if they wanted to.

I don't know that I'm shitting on the coach. But then again, what does it fucking matter if you're shitting on the coach? What are they going to do, bench you? You make a billion dollars. There's no way they can bench you. They have to play you. This person says, cut Deshaun. To which Leroy Bickerstaff says, Ford does nothing but put his blood, sweat, and tears into this team,

and this is how y'all treat him. I see why Braun left twice. Ford got to get out of town and continue greatness somewhere else. Okay. And this person has gone out and searched the name Deshaun Watson and commented on all these, and he just created an account in September of 2024. Again, this is Barstool doing all this work here, this legwork here. I'm just reading the messages. Now, why am

I uniquely qualified to tell you something about this? Well, we've had this discussion on the pod before, but for those of you who are new to the fun here. When I was a young boy, I was, I guess I would have been 17, 18, 19, somewhere in that range. I guess I've been younger. So about 17 or 18, I was doing radio shows in Baton Rouge, just a young boy trying to make it in the world. And I knew nothing about message boards or anything. I started doing play-by-play for the minor league baseball team there when I was 16, 15, and I discovered that on the team's website there was a message board. I'm like, wow, that's neat.

So I just started going through it, and I see someone comment on the broadcast, which wasn't on the radio. It was an online-only thing, through sportsjuice.com. What a rig I had. It was like, I'd go back in a second and go do that shit again and feel the way I felt doing that. But whatever. It was awesome. And I'd see comments about how good it was. And I was like, wow, people like what I'm doing. This is neat. And that was kind of the first opportunity I had

to get legit feedback from people. And I thought, this is fucking great. Well, fast forward to doing sports talk radio. On this really bad radio show. I was part of when I was a high schooler. Look if I were an adult person. Listening to a high school asshole. Doing a sports talk show. Dude leaving school.

In French class to go do a radio show. With some guy who wasn't good at it. From a fucking truck stop or a golden corral and me saying all the dumb shit I probably said when I was 17 knowing nothing of the world I'd probably shit on me too but alas um I would read all this and like every day there'd be some new topic about me on tiger droppings.com was the name of the site. And it was just a big LSU message board, different topics and everything. And I felt like I was always a topic of conversation. So I had my own Leroy Bicker staff and my Leroy Bicker staff was Tiger John.

And I would go on like now that I even think about it, when you can view someone else clearly doing it, I mean, if not, this person, Leroy Bickers 4, is just a sad motherfucker. He's got the number 4 in his handle, Leroy Bickers 4. When you read other people doing it, especially dudes who are millionaire athletes who get, well, some get all the ass they want. Some try to force themselves on all the ass they can. But when you see guys like that responding to this, you go, Jesus Christ, you're a fucking loser. But you rewind to when you're 17, 18 years old in a rather unique situation. There aren't too many 16, 17, 18 year old people doing radio shows, humble brag. So it's unique. And then you go to the internet and you see people shitting on you and you're like, fuck it. And I think I even created my own name on there to try to balance it out. Like, Hey, there's Josh Ennis, but then there's also Tiger John.

And I forgot how people unearthed if that it was me, but once they find out that you're creating burner accounts to defend yourself, it's over. And these people have no lives. Their life revolves around being a celebrity on a message board. No offense to those people, but it does. If you go to tigerdroppings.com right now, which I don't do, but if you did, you'd probably still see a lot of the same people who've been commenting on TigerDroppings.com since 2005. 2004, that's 20 years, I think is when Tiger John was a thing, right? That means that for 20 something years, those people have been on there, not trying to knock them. They just got nothing fucking going on in their lives and they feel like they're a little kind of celebrities in

their own little message board world, right? That's who you're worried about. That's whose opinion you're worried about. So they have no lives. They will say whatever vile shit they can to you because this is their moment. So when they find out that the doofus on the radio, who all of them believe is on the radio just because their dad's on the radio, and in that case, that's partially true, and they know that they're older than I am, they know that I'm a doofus in high school, they know that I'm saying dumb shit on the radio, of course they're going to just destroy me on there once they find out it's me and they did there's no winning in this

when i was in philadelphia tony and miss robin felt that there were like 20 mike missanelli burner accounts and i would go like what incentive does mike missanelli have to have a burner account to attack you guys but then you see the way he handles things on the internet and you're like hey he might i mean it's plausible but man it's sad bro like five years ago rewind five years ago is it five or six years ago against the bills and the playoffs then up against kansas city looks like they're gonna go to the afc championship game like holy shit the texans have a dude and you see what he is now dude's a sad motherfucker but we're seeing this with a lot of people right to a lesser degree we talked about it yesterday with Dave Grohl or this morning with Dave Grohl but Dave Grohl like everything in the world still goes out and fucks around on his wife and gets somebody knocked up you know Cosby cosby's got everything in the fucking world the most successful

black dude in tv ever game-changing dude and now look at him diddy i mean fucking diddy this guy is a fucking lunatic like it's just wild that shit happens and i get that when you're a celebrity and you got money and shit happens and people throw themselves at you and every chick is DTF seemingly like bro more power to you but to watch this dude just be destroyed like this to see like he doesn't look like the same person and you could argue that he's bitter and angry and that he's been hardened by this situation or you can argue that he's bitter and angry and that he's been hardened by this situation. Or you can argue that he's really just a sociopathic piece of shit. I would lean towards that. I just don't believe 20 some odd, 30 some odd people make up allegations. Of course, he's denying this latest one.

But man, I don't fucking know, bro. Like, I look at this dude and I'm trying to think of people that were like this that went on to play. Like OJ was retired when OJ happened. So that's obviously giant fall from grace. Might have killed two people. Like probably killed two people. Then had a great third act as a Twitter celebrity. But I'm trying to think of people who fell down like this and not only still played, but made a fuck ton of money doing it and were bad when they came back.

You know, there are guys who are kind of mental cases when they played. Like a lot of receivers are mental cases. You know, T.O. was a mental case when he played. And people said he was going to kill himself. And he said, I got millions of reasons to not kill myself doing crunches in his driveway. You know, but he was always a good player and his production never fell off oh you know what i i guess the only one that i could is sort of comparable in a way is ab i mean that dude's clearly fucked in the head although for as fucked in the head as he is he's a lot of fun to follow on twitter he says some dumb shit and i'm like you

know what i'm into this dumb shit he's saying you know it's kind of like kanye in a way like these guys now again kanye doesn't have sexual assault stuff ab did have some shit like then he like he like uh you know rub one out on an artist or something like that was one of the stories about him so yeah some of these people go nuts but But Deshaun Watson, seemingly not effed in the head, not a CTE type of thing, just a serial jerker offer on massage therapists. And his whole life has been derailed, yet he's still rich as shit, and he's still playing,

and he's playing at an absurdly low level. This is something we've never seen before and we may never see anything like this again. It's pretty bonkers, man. I don't know. I can't get enough of this story. Like I'm enjoying his descent into just this awfulness. It's fun. I kind of enjoy it. And on the same plane, I'm enjoying watching the Texans ascend while Deshaun Watson's buried. I like it. It's fun.

All right, love you guys. We'll see you.