The Jimmy Garoppolo honeymoon phase is going to end eventually. He’ll have a bad game, the 49ers will lose and mass hysteria will ensue. No quarterback is immune from playing poorly or the criticism that comes with it, not even Tom Brady.

“Jimmy hasn’t had to go through that yet because he hasn’t had a lot of playing time,” Kyle Shanahan said at the NFL scouting combine in March. “Every time he has played, I keep waiting for it to happen and he ends up playing pretty good. I know it’s a matter of time and it’ll happen, hopefully not right away, but I know it will.”

Garoppolo’s sterling start to his 49ers career in 2017 signaled a few things: He’s a quick study, his teammates love him and he has the potential to become one of the NFL’s next star quarterbacks. Those ideas have San Francisco’s fans expecting a quick return to playoff contention in 2018. Who could blame them?

But the overreaction to any poor play from Garoppolo is already beginning. Pro Football Talk, an institution in NFL news, wrote a post Friday morning with the headline, “Jimmy Garoppolo struggles at 49ers’ minicamp” which signals where the 49ers stand in the national news scope in 2018.

When Brian Hoyer or Blaine Gabbert played poorly during a June practice, it was hardly the type of fodder that drew headlines. But Garoppolo has brought the team to a new stratosphere. Bad practices no longer fly under the radar because of the expectations the new quarterback helped create.

“We don’t really listen to it. I think that’s the biggest part,” Garoppolo said this week of the positive talk surrounding his team. “There’s all kinds of noise out there. People make predictions all the time, but at the end of the day it’s what we do on the practice field and in the meeting rooms and how we go out and perform on Sundays.”

After his meeting with reporters Wednesday, Garoppolo went out and unofficially completed just 8 of 20 passes during full-team drills in San Francisco’s final minicamp practice. That performance was the root of Pro Football Talk’s article. And unfortunately for Garoppolo, he won’t have a chance to rectify that outing for nearly six weeks when training camp begins in late July.

Garoppolo was missing three of his top receivers to injuries: Marquise Goodwin (back), Trent Taylor (back) and rookie second-round pick Dante Pettis (undisclosed). The portion in which he struggled most was an end-of-game drill to start practice, when he had to go 70 yards with just over a minute of game time remaining. The offense was down 21-17 so a field goal was out of the question.

Garoppolo connected on 4 of 11 throws and was held out of the end zone. Admittedly, it was odd to see him come up short after playing well throughout most of the offseason practices open to reporters (an aside: Garoppolo’s second completion of the day went to Jerick McKinnon, who appeared to take a short throw up the middle for a 60-plus yard touchdown, but coaches ruled he was down for the sake of continuing the drill. Had the touchdown counted, Garoppolo would have been 7-of-12 on the day, unofficially, and PFT likely wouldn’t have written an article about his performance.).

Tuesday’s practice was a similar struggle for the first-team offense. The 49ers were trying a new cadence for Garoppolo leading to a slew of false starts and pre-snap penalties.

But it’s June and Shanahan can live with those kind of mistakes, particularly if his quarterback learns from them. Garoppolo took the entire starting unit aside after practice to correct those pre-snap errors.

“I like seeing (Garoppolo) make mistakes,” he said. “I like seeing him come in and work on it. I like seeing him when we get them in that same situation, the same coverage and the same looks, and I like seeing him correct what he messed up two days ago. He felt the mistake. He understood why it was wrong and then he wants to correct it himself, not ‘Hey, that’s wrong, do it this way.’ I want him to understand it.”

Reporters will watch every snap from the first two weeks of training camp in late July and early August, which means every Garoppolo throw will be counted and his completion rate will be written about. Not all of his practices will be perfect and Shanahan understands those ups and downs are part of the process.