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waterfield
Your right about what a man's image "should be". But images do exist and people follow what they believe they should be like. I wrote once that still the most popular male add ever made is "the Marborough man". How many of us thought that if we looked like him we could get the girl of our dreams. Rather we like it or not images are there and people tend to follow them or else they wouldn't exist. Hence the young male who wears a stubble or half shaven beard. I also think as one ages he or she tend to care less. But for Millennials and even younger its roots are part of wanting to be with the cool kids back in school. But if we can't be part of the group we at least can look like them. But as we grow older who gives a s---.
They do. I didn't say they didn't. But those images are so wide and disparate that we can't pretend they boil down to a handful of obvious types. Acting like they do is usually just old-fashioned stereotyping.
Look at the qbs that get universally praised. They can't be reduced to one type.
What the qbs who get the most praise usually have done, though, is build a track record.
So far Goff has one game that came to national attention.
We as Rams fans know full well that that game did not suddenly show things we had never seen before. It was a peak game for him but nothing in it was surprising or new.
But until he does it more, the national perception will remain the same.
I just don't thin k it has much to do with his personal demeanor either way. Or how that gets taken that way. Etc.
There are a lot of good qbs right now. To be seen as one of them Goff will have to do more. We know that. And we also have very good reasons to be confident it will happen too. When that happens my bet is that the "personality type" stereotypes about him will change. He'll be the same guy but then it will become how cool, calm, and unflappable he is. Stuff like that.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/29/2018 10:03AM by zn.