ROUND 5 PICK 161 - C COREY LINSLEY (OHIO STATE)

Was his zipper open?

Yeah but he had to "tuck it" to make it a more authentic bert costume.

What Brett Favre dressed up as for Halloween.

Some day, 45 years from now this kid will wake up, shuffle down to a Green Bay bar he co-owns with the legendary Packer playboy Eddy Lacy, named "Maulers".

And as he changes the urinal cakes a warm glow will come over him as he knows he is a very lucky guy.

The money is gone, and so is most of his liver,  but he will still be left with the memories,and the pictures on the wall of a dynasty and the 5 consecutive SB World Championships, and the fans who still love him and worship him. 

In Green Bay he is still a living legend, and nothing else matters.

Do you hear me Bert?

I can dream. 

Cerebral

In the first two weeks of training camp, when the Packers conducted the one-on-one pass blocking/pass rushing drill day after day, Linsley took on all comers and lost only two of 10 reps in the drill. 

Linsley's task on Thursday at CenturyLink Field will be two-fold: Dealing with the crowd noise and handling the Seahawks' defensive front, specifically nose tackle Brandon Mebane– something that apparently Irvin thinks should make Linsley shudder. 

"All the weaknesses that [Linsley] shows us, we've got to expose it," Irvin told reporters in Seattle this week. "Hopefully, ‘Bane’ is going to do what I know he's going to do to him. So, we've just got to be ready." 

Last year Bak got his NFL indoctrination @ SF vs some nasty fellows and he played very well

Now its Linsley's turn to shine...

Trivia Tuesdays at the bar make me smert.

The question is whether he has a sister that can work out with him in the offseason.

On his radio show today:

RODGERS: Linsley is fast becoming a favorite player of mine on the team. He had an interesting week. He shared some things in front of the team. He is fast becoming a player you don't have to worry about. I think that's one of the best compliments you can give young guy. 

I've said it several times, I was dead wrong about this guy. I thought he was undersized and an overachiever that would just end up being a practice squad guy like Garth Gerhart. Glad to be wrong, he sounds like another Frankie Winters type. 

Genius loses his job?

quote:

RODGERS: Linsley is fast becoming a favorite player of mine on the team. He had an interesting week. He shared some things in front of the team.

From Bad Bob's grades this week:

Once again, Josh Sitton and Corey Linsley were the leading performers. Sitton didn't yield a pressure while Linsley allowed two one-half pressures. Matched against NT Damon Harrison, a 350-pounder with youth and attitude, Linsley gave everything he had. He continues to keep his man away from the ball.

I feel for JC Tretter, but as long as Linsley stays healthy no way I see him losing his starting job once Tretter is able to come back. Kudos to Ted. Looking more and more like a really solid pick.

Hard to say. My hunch is that if Linsley plays consistently good football and Rodgers gets comfortable with him then MM may not have a choice. That's a tough situation. Tretter had the job originally and seemed to play well so it would seem to me it's his job BUT it sends a bad message to your team when a player steps up and plays well but still loses his job.

 vs. 

Jesus ****, I think I'd rather read another Dom Capers thread.

At least we're talking about something positive instead of rehashing why everyone hates Dom Capers. Also any thread with a Rob Ford gif is worth following in my book. 

Why do I think that the same dum dums  Linzzzzzzzzzzley thought Tori Gurley was a future Hall of Famer.

Gurley is a future hall of famer.  Always will be.

Packer Update made a good point about centers back in April:

http://packerupdate.net/?p=32825

Best Centers Are Centers

April 14, 2014 

If training camp started today, former left tackles JC Tretter and Don Barclay would be the top two centers on the depth chart. And while both are certainly talented enough to make the transition, neither snapped a single ball prior to joining the Packers. Does that matter? Probably, since the last 14 Pro Bowl centers all played the position in college. So did Scott Wells, Green Bay’s best pivot man in the past 20 years. Of course, this doesn’t mean a team can’t make a serviceable center out of a guard or tackle. Heck, former Packer Evan Dietrich-Smith, who played left tackle at Idaho State, will be paid $14 million by the Bucs to be their starting center for the next four years. But recent history clearly shows that the best centers are the ones who played the position before getting to the NFL. So if general manager Ted Thompson is looking to find a stud to hike the ball to Aaron Rodgers for the next six or seven seasons, he might want to consider USC’s Marcus Martin, Colorado State’s Weston Richburg and Arkansas’ Travis Swanson. They are three of the top centers in next month’s draft.

If Linsley's playing as well as we're made to believe, that's a great thing. Leave him there, and groom Tretter to be the swing tackle when he comes back. He played tackle in college; maybe he's the right tackle of the future if Bulaga goes elsewhere.

I don't see Linsley giving up the C spot.  

Sounds like Rodgers agrees with you Pakrz.

I'd love to see Tretter at RT. He has quick feet and has no issues getting into guys and moving them. I think Tretter is athletic enough to move to RT. AR had the same flattering things to say about him as he's saying about Linsley. Like Bulaga. Tretter has to show he can stay on the field. 

I also think AR just wants to cement a long term center in place and stop the C carousel. 

It was hard not to be sold on Linsley after he went to Seattle and held his own to the point Irvin and Mebane praised the job he did after the game. 

In the Many-Worlds interpretation, he's a lock for the hall of fame.

In fact, he's already there.

Irvin's prayers were answered.

He got a  lot of help against the Seahawks which hurt the offense a little, but he was really solid against the Jets. On the first play he knocked over that big nose tackle. Buckled his knees.

Jets DL < Seahawks DL

We will have a better idea this weekend after he dances with Fairley and Suh.

But I like the cut of his jib thus far.

I think so too.  SEA's benefits a lot from their back 5 being so strong whereas NYJ gets no favors from theirs.

But wasn't the problem against the Jets that Rodgers was getting sacked because he was holding on to the ball too long?  That suggests good coverage but it was taking a while for the pressure up front to get to him.

 Saw several times, and the announcing crew commented on it also, where Rodgers had a guy wide open underneath but passed it up for a deeper route that wasn't open.

Back to Linsley, guy looks promising thus far. Gonna be a stiff test this weeI against Suh, Fairley and co. Never feel good about going to Detroit. 

Not in the first half. The pressure was getting there in a flash. MM adjusted by sliding protecting Sherrod's way to compemsate. I think that was the reason the Jets were able to cover so well. Fewer guys running routes.

Yup. Seattle has a really good front 7, but their back 7 is elite.

I feel the same way. Why? I think Arod has a pretty good record in Detroit. Helps that he has avoided throwing off his knees.

Here's McGinn on the OL vs the Jets who blitzed on 44% of the downs in an attempt to cover up the weak back- end

OFFENSIVE LINE -  2.5

Filling in for RT Bryan Bulaga, Derek Sherrod played much better in the second half than the first. For someone with such phenomenal size, he really doesn't create movement for the run game. He fell off two or three run blocks but didn't outright miss. After watching Sherrod this season, one scout wondered about his confidence level. Of his four pressures, three came against OLB Quinton Coples.

On the other side, David Bakhtiari allowed 3 ½ knockdowns and one hurry in a subpar showing. Backup OLB Jason Babin and Coples each beat him twice. He also left his feet prematurely and failed to cut DE Muhammad Wilkerson, enabling Wilkerson to charge down the line and crush Lacy on a failed third and 2. On the same play, T.J. Lang lost against DT Sheldon Richardson at the point of attack. That's usually a throwing down for Mike McCarthy, and with blocking like that will continue to be.

Bakhtiari also got beat inside by Babin on a Lacy carry for no gain.

Once again, Josh Sitton and Corey Linsley were the leading performers. Sitton didn't yield a pressure while Linsley allowed two one-half pressures. Matched against NT Damon Harrison, a 350-pounder with youth and attitude, Linsley gave everything he had. He continues to keep his man away from the ball. One of the fumbled shotgun snaps was his fault. Lang gave up 2½ pressures, including a stunt-sack to OLB Calvin Pace in which he overextended.

Sherrod played better in the second half because he got a lot of help.

This is one of the things that came up on Rodgers' weekly radio show about the TEs in particular. Without calling out Sherrod by name, he mentioned that the TEs have been asked to chip and roll out into the flat much more than they have before as one reason for their complete disappearance thus far this year.

Yup, here's Barancyzk from GBPG commenting on it

- One of the reasons Derek Sherrod played better at right tackle this week than last in place of injured Bryan Bulaga was the help coach Mike McCarthy's scheme gave him, mostly from halfback Eddie Lacy.

Lacy appears to have dedicated himself to blocking in the offseason. He did a nice job helping Sherrod. He often lined up to Rodgers' right and chipped the defensive end or outside linebacker Sherrod was blocking, or at least waited a beat or two to see how Sherrod was doing, before going out in the flat for a possible pass. That's a young player who improved himself in the offseason.

Bump because he deserves it.  Last night's grade has got to be good to great.  Double teams w/Sitton and Lang were fantastic, and 2nd level engagement was, from what I could tell, tremendous.

Guy's head is in the ****ing game.

Man love!!!

Dude is a ****ing beast