Essay DeAngelo Wrote on the Plane

[nosuchthingasapanther]

I wonder who his "editor" is...

that's what i'm wondering.

that piece wasn't written just like that off the top of someone's head.

[csx]

Why does it matter if it was written off the top of his head? I think this proves his point.

[panthers55]

I wonder who his "editor" is...

I don't follow him so I don't know how he writes other times, but I was thinking he must have had help with that as well. He may have finished it on the plane but didn't write the whole thing it would seem. Unless there is a scholar under those dreads.

[csx]

They flew on Thursday and he posted it on Friday. I am sure he or someone else had the time to edit it. Every writer has an editor and I still dont know shat is being insinuated by that angle.

[ed bell]

Why does it matter if it was written off the top of his head? I think this proves his point.

In the interest of transparency, it makes a huge difference to differentiate between creating an article spontaneously as he claims, and to have worked on this for far longer and publishing it now. I don't begrudge him using the spotlight of the playoffs to get extra eyeballs, but be honest about it. Disclaimer: I have no idea if he created this as he claims. Just pointing it out.

[UpstatePanther]

I thought this was a pretty good read! Maybe I read it wrong, but it seems like he is taking a few shots at the NFL brass.

 

 

https://medium.com/the-cauldron/you-better-check-yourselves-players-f23ad303b072

 

thats what i got out of it. and if Deangelo really did write this, i think he has called out the wrong (right) people. if there was any chance he would come back next year somewhere in the league, i dont see it now.

 

Deangelo is certainly well versed.

 

agreed. it was very well written. i do hope Deangelo retires this offseason. he truly doesnt have it anymore talent-wise. but that doesnt mean he isnt an outstanding person and an asset to the community. he will always be one of my favorite former Panthers. i might just get a jersey to collect one day.

 

Also yeah that does suck about being Cam Bandwagon fans, but that's the price we pay when we finally have a true franchise QB/ Player in the spotlight.

 

honestly, ive not heard one person say that they like Cam but not the Panthers. its always the other way around... "i like the Panthers but i cant stand Cam" they always name his maturity, inaccuracy, the issues he faced at Auburn, or his inexperience as reasons to dislike him. to me, they always reek of ignorance. unfortunately, i often hear that most from members of my family. cant choose your family i guess...

 

I'll tell you what....take out a loan or invest you own life savings in an unproven new business, work hard and build the brand for 50 years until you turn that investment in a multimillion dollar company. Once you do that, I'll come along and ask if you're paying your employees the vast majority of the money your company is earning. Sheesh....

Whats preposterous is how easily you give away other people's money. When YOU'RE the one giving away hundreds of millions of YOUR dollars....then you may feel differently.

 

thank you for standing up for capitalism. i like Mol3m4n, but the communist rhetoric he is spewing about how owners should spread their wealth around is preposterous when the players make MILLIONS of dollars. how greedy can someone get? not Mol3m4n. but the players. i cant stand the NFLPA. i know they do some good work looking out for the health and safety of the players, but constantly fighting for more money when the players already make more than the vast majority of Americans dream of making? thats despicable. if they want the players to make more money, they need to fight to increase roster sizes and increase the salary cap (not remove it, there has to be a cap for competition purposes). 

 

i am fine with the owners being filthy rich. im fine with the players being filthy rich. but when either side heckles anyone for more money, it pisses me off. they are blessed to be making millions. no need to raise hell for more. 

 

obviously the basic point here is management vs. labor. this is a capitalism vs communism issue. both sides deserve respect and an equal share of the profit. management and players should receive the profit 50/50. if its skewed toward management, its crony capitalism and wrong. if its skewed toward the players, its communism and wrong. 

 

both crony capitalism and communism view wealth as a pie and try to divide a limited amount of pie amongst the various actors in the system according to what their ideology views as "fair". Regulated, but free market, capitalism circumvents those issues and just makes more pie. in other words, let the NFL owners make as many millions as they want. but pay the players fair, free market salaries. 

 

(NOTE: im not looking for a ideological argument. i gave my two cents and now im done. this isnt the Tinderbox)

[csx]

In the interest of transparency, it makes a huge difference to differentiate between creating an article spontaneously as he claims, and to have worked on this for far longer and publishing it now. I don't begrudge him using the spotlight of the playoffs to get extra eyeballs, but be honest about it. Disclaimer: I have no idea if he created this as he claims. Just pointing it out.

Why is it questionable whether that could be written in 4 or 5 hours? Of course it could. We just seem to be questioning him because his football career is on the downside.

[ed bell]

Why is it questionable whether that could be written in 4 or 5 hours? Of course it could. We just seem to be questioning him because his football career is on the downside.

Again, I don't know if he did or didn't... I just find it hard to believe. It is very well put together with links and pictures. I'm speculating that the mood and atmosphere on the flight would make it hard to work. It is a four and a half hour flight. We'll never know the truth here, so it doesn't really matter. I always liked Dlo.... Still do.

[cgarsmoker]

I'm not saying that I would give my poor man's salary away, but some men have enough money for sox generations of grand children. There is no need for it. And he wouldn't be giving it away necessarily, he would be making less. Which is still a whole lot more money than we could even imagine.

It's a player driven league. Pay them like it is.

Who died and named you Stalin? You don't get to decide when another man has made enough money that now he should run his business as a non profit. This is America....free market economy....and the NFL is a business to make money. If you think the players should make more, I'm fine with that....you pay them. Maybe I'm prejudiced because I own a business and when times got tough in the beginning, I paid my employees and wasn't able to draw a paycheck myself. My family did without as I took a huge risk to start something from the ground up. It could have failed.....we could have lost everything but we risked it and now my business is doing well. I make a very comfortable living. It is the reward for the risks I took 15 years ago. Now that things are going great, some pie eater wants to tell me I make enough money and I should shift the majority of my earning to the employees?

This is my last reply on this topic because spending others people's money is a novel concept but until you're ready to ante up your salary and allow me to tell you how to spend it......you're just talking out your rear end.

[Panthro]

The most disappointing thing about this is that he was actually the plane

[nosuchthingasapanther]

Why is it questionable whether that could be written in 4 or 5 hours? Of course it could. We just seem to be questioning him because his football career is on the downside.

nope.

to the trained eye, it's obvious when someone writes something and someone else goes back and edits it.

and the problem with editing a piece from the heart, if you or the person who is editing it isn't careful, the finished piece will dilute or completely change the intentions of what you originally wrote.

the whole thing is a whine and cheese attention whorish piece that's been smoothed over by a PR person.

[UpstatePanther]

Maybe I'm prejudiced because I own a business and when times got tough in the beginning, I paid my employees and wasn't able to draw a paycheck myself. My family did without as I took a huge risk to start something from the ground up. It could have failed.....we could have lost everything but we risked it and now my business is doing well. I make a very comfortable living. 

 

this reminds me of the man i work for, whom i view as a father figure in my life.

 

you, sir, are an admirable man as well. God bless you.

[pstall]

The most disappointing thing about this is that he was actually the plane

Far out man. *puff*

[Shufdog]

The most disappointing thing about this is that he was actually the plane

 

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