Thanks for posting. I appreciate the thesis of the piece, and agree with it.
However, I gotta say, writers these days are decreasingly careful when it comes to making assumptions (especially about social media). I want to point out an assumption Bell makes in the article so that this type of thinking doesn't go without notice.
“Always control what you can control. Never let others nonsense & lack of gratefulness & respect bring you down. #BestIsAhead” Who knows what that means; the QB often writes such cryptic missives that way.
How is that tweet cryptic? It's a pretty direct declaration of the value of goals and focus. The only way it is cryptic is if you make the
utterly-gigantic assumption that Wilson is slyly trying to express something autobiographical.
As it would happen, the writer of the above article is guilty of making the same primary mistake as the people he's chiding. Maybe Wilson is telling his hot-headed receivers to stop caring about what media personalities have to say. Maybe he's quoting something his father said to him. Maybe he just read something similar in a shitty motivational book.
Any of those is as or more likely to be the case than veiled autobiography.
