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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 769545" data-attributes="member: 7261">I don't think I have seen many people posting about being disappointed in a player that wasn't ready on day 1 of their career.  Any average fan is well aware of the rookie learning curve and development, its the Packer way after all.  However, peoples patience grow thin with a player over the course of time, just how thin depends on the person and their expectations.  We could go through the last 20 years of the Packers draft and look at all the first and second round picks, which I believe are guys you expect to eventually start, the "development patience and results" would vary widely with most of those picks.This conversation got started about Spriggs.  Some of us didn't like the pick nor the cost of obtaining him from day one.  Then when his early play confirmed that he was going to need a lot of work, those feelings were strengthened.  Like I said a number of posts ago, I really hope Spriggs works out, but I don't see anything wrong with being one of those fans that is still nervously scratching his head over the pick 2 years later.</blockquote>

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