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Originally Posted by Paintrain
An extra large bucket of pride. 
Seriously, the point is acting the way we're acting we would have given up on Drew Brees, Santana Moss, Steve Smith and Dallas Clark. Not to project that Campbell, Kelly, Thomas and Davis will become those types of players but so many 'fans' are so willing to throw in the towel on guys early in their careers it's mind blowing. |
I 100% agree. I think too many fans look around the league and see one or two (skill-position) rookies really having impacts every year and 8-12 second year guys and forget about the 100+ 3+ year players having huge impacts. For every Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco there are 5 or 6 Heath Shulers, Ryan Leafs, Tim Couchs, Kyle Bollers, etc..
For every Desean Jackson there are DOZENS or WRs who don't do suat for at least 3 years.
It is the way it is. Hell even the mighty Sean Taylor, as good as he was, struggled at times his rookie year. And he is pretty roundly considered our best draft pick in probably 25 years.
Patience is part of it but I also think it requires fans to actually know what the hell is going on and have some kind of clue what they are talking about. For each person on this site that tries to stay informed and knowledgeable there are 100 who read Peter King and JLC as gospel every now and again and think they know what is "wrong" with the Skins. Not that they need to spend hours of their life on message boards discussing this stuff and educating themselves but most fans are dolts and don't know it. There's a reason why it is hard to win in the NFL. If it was as easy as most dolt fans think then more dolt fans would be running teams.