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But I think there's more.

Another part of human nature is hating to be wrong, and loving to say "I told you so".

A lot of media guys and fans jumped to the conclusion after his rookie year that Goff was no good. And said so.

Most of the time since then, they've had to hunker down and bear it when he disproved that. And maybe even pretend to like it.

But we see a lot of qualifiers - "it's the system" "it's the coach" "it's the headset" "it's the surrounding talent"

And whenever they can get some evidence to go back to their original judgement of him, they're happy and quick to do it.

Because then they weren't wrong and they can say "I told you so".

They don't need a lot, and it's easy for them to ignore countervailing evidence.