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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sschind" data-source="post: 785729" data-attributes="member: 10247">Negative first impressions seem to have a bigger impact than positive ones.  Heck negative impressions any time seem to carry more weight.  A player starts with 2 slow years then turns it on and becomes a solid player and all some people remember is the slow start.  A guy starts out fast for a couple of years then falls flat all some people remember is him falling flat.They say its a "what have you done for me lately" league but that seems to matter a lot more if what the player has done is negative.  A player has three consecutive 1200 yard seasons then only 700 and everyone says "only 700 yards last year, he's done"  A player has three 700 yard seasons then 1200 and its "but he never topped 800 in his first three years it's a fluke"   Look how long it took people to get over the idea that all James Jones did was drop passes.  I'm sure that's how he is still remembered by some fans.To a lesser extent but probably only because it was a beyond a lot of people's memory.  All Ahman Green did was fumble the ball.  All the way to becoming the leading rusher in Packer history.</blockquote>

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