It all started as a lark one day in September, when Dylan Cardwell was scrolling the Internet, reading stories about then-Houston Texans coach Bill O’Brien’s alleged burner Twitter account.
Cardwell was convinced O’Brien had a burner, or someone close to him was running the account, like what happened to former Philadelphia 76ers general manager Brian Colangelo in 2018.
O’Brien’s alleged secret Twitter handle — @4Jacko69 — was a combination of Deshaun Watson’s uniform number, O’Brien’s son’s name and O’Brien’s year of birth, and the account offered staunch defense of the embattled Texans coach.