Lane Johnson, Mike Florio Have Weird Twitter Beef Over Event Eagles OL Organized

Lane Johnson recently organized an event that supposedly was somewhat cavalier about the pandemic that could torpedo the 2020 NFL season.

And it doesn’t appear Johnson took kindly to having that pointed out.

Johnson organized what was called the “OL Masterminds Summit” in Dallas. Of course, the state of Texas is a hotspot for COVID-19, with cases spiking over the last month, and the summit, according to ProFootballTalk’s Mike Florio, apparently had little-to-no physical distancing and no mask-wearing.

So you can understand how the optics of that aren’t great here. Florio on Saturday wrote a story with the headline “‘OL Masterminds Summit’ features few masks, no distancing.”

Johnson saw the tweet and taunted Florio, who then responded.

Good news for Bucs C Ryan Jensen: He won the hot-wing eating contest at the OL Masterminds Summit in Dallas.
Bad news for football: They actually had a hot-wing eating contest, without any physical distancing, at the OL Mastermind Summit in Dallas.https://t.co/E8PvMvLMs1

— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) July 11, 2020

This is Lane's response to our article pointing out that the event he organized in a current COVID-19 hotspot featured few masks and no social distancing, along with a hot-wing eating contest. Why are the NFL and NFLPA haggling over how to keep these guys safe this year? https://t.co/LqNJhKTKgH

— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) July 11, 2020

Johnson then retweeted a tweet that had a video of COVID testing being done at the event.

Covid 19 testing here at 3rd annual OL MASTERMINDS Summit. Covid 19 negative. Staying safe being smart. Testing testing testing is the way #BaldysBreakdowns pic.twitter.com/GNa2FSDq11

— Brian Baldinger (@BaldyNFL) July 11, 2020

And then Florio had this zinger.