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

Haven't been able to love a fullback since Henderson.

I have to say, for all the apparent misses TT makes on the D front 7, he does pretty well with late round/undrafted OL and DB.

Tretter we  hardly knew thee

Buckeye fan now? Welcome to the bandwagon!

P.S. Seasons over

Word.

Can't see how Tretter takes this kids job now. Linsley is cheaper, younger, accountable, and highly effective.

Pretty hard for JC to trump that.

Look at SF and Dallas.  Many high draft picks on the OL. 

Buck Cherry -- 4th

Sitton -- 4th

Linsley/Tretter -- 5th/4th

Lang -- 4th

Bulaga -- 1st

Barclay -- undrafted

Sherrod == 1st

Despite Rodgers' early jigs and reels, the starters have done a good job.  Running game showing signs of improvement.  So you have a 1st rounder as a back up and an undrafted WV hick as one of your better players in the unit.

Pretty good job there, I think.

Now once the rest of the rainBoris - seasons over leg humper crew realize $herrod will not beat out Buckcherry we will have something.

Why does it feel like the seasons just beginning

Here you go, Brak:

@ByRyanWood: Four best offensive grades: Eddie Lacy (2.9), Josh Sitton (3.3), T.J. Lang (2) and Corey Linsley (3.6). Why #Packers got run game on track.

@ByRyanWood: Through 5 games, #Packers rookie Corey Linsley has combined 2.2 grade from @PFF. Second best on O line (Sitton, 12.2). Center of the future?

Thanks cuqui/SJ, had not seen that yet.

I guess we'll all wait on pins and needles to see what McGinn says.

Damn, I like that.

Bakhtiari with another sub-standard evening though.

And that Nelson guy, wtf? He's supposed to be a premier receiver and he only gets one catch against that defense? Time to give Janis his spot: younger, cheaper and more hungry.

Nelson is terrible. Negative 1.2?!?! He has no business on an NFL field.

Tretter will take over for Buck Cherry

a 4th for a 4th, no sweat off of TT.

Where are the grades for coaches and GM?

Around here?  MM gets an F, TT gets a C-.

Shoeless, is that from ProFootball Focus?

Maybe Rodgers was onto something with his "Relax" suggestion.

I know nothing about the Viking's Front 7, but if it is close to average or better, the quality of play of the offensive line was shocking for me.

Originally I think so, I got it from Reddit.

Edit: I got it here.

Lotta  for the town drunk. Maybe Boris can rename this place LinzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzleysForum.com

Thanks SJ.

Of course he's starting. We were trying to put a guard in at center. Good pick TT.

They are both 23 and cheap. 

It will come down to who the coaching staff thinks is the better player.

It'll be awfully hard to yank Linsley if he's playing well at the halfway point of the season and the offense is humming along.  If that's what's happening, Tretter becomes your interior swing guy.  I'd also try him at tackle for a few snaps in practice to see if him being a tackle-to-tackle swing guy is even feasible.  

Tretter would be better at T than trying to be the swing interior. Party-On is the interior swing man.

Is this the ass beast IC is so fond of?

There's a place on this team for Tretter if he can stay healthy.  With Bulaga and Sherrod up next season, I wonder if his future isn't at RT.

IMO Tretter would have to beef up considerally to play either tackle, especially RT. He's generously listed at 307. Hadn't noticed this before but he's listed as a C/G on the roster. Have to say that I think he'd be better than Sherrod at LT if anything happens to Bakh, much better feet.  For the rest of the season I'd make him the Swiss army knife backup guy along the line, because unless Linsley implodes or gets hurt he's earned the spot. Dude is a beast in the run game and is getting better each week. 

Linsley has has been good to great, so far. It's a good problem to have.

Linvall Joseph watching tape of Guion? Dude looked like he was on skates whenever Linsley touched him. Vikings buddy gleefully informed me he would have problems against size like Suh and Linvall, after the Seahawks game. I said nothing, but my thought at the time was, Joseph????

I don't know there should be a particular rush to get Tretter back on the field ASAP.

The longer he can rehab/heal, the better off he will be in the long run.

Pakrz is right; there's a place for Tretter on the team. It just may not be at C.

Clements asked if Linsley will remain starter at center when Tretter returns: "Corey has played well. I'll leave it at that."
— Tyler Dunne (@TyDunne) October 6, 2014

That's not his call. Clements saying anything about it is garbage.

I can't see how they would want to interrupt the continuity they've built over the last month. Grab some pine Tretter, we might need you later. 

Linsley has played decent.   Lets not forget that they haven't been able to run the ball at all except for Thursday night. 

Some of that is play calling, some of it is RB play, but a lot of it has been crappy run blocking.  Tretter looked all world in preseason and he was able to handle the no huddle with his command of the playbook.  

I'm not saying they should or that it will happen, I just won't be upset or shocked if Tretter gets the job back and Linsley becomes the interior backup.    He is probably better fit at G than Tretter anyways.  

Whisper when you say that.

Today.

Pretty high praise coming from the boss.

I still think there's a place on this line for Tretter, if he can shake the injury bug, but it doesn't look like it's at center. I still think RT may be the spot. Bulaga may be gone, and Sherrod isn't the answer.

Yer dum.  It's all about the Wizard.

No evidence that Tretter would have been successful at center or that Bulaga would have worked out at LT for that matter. Like Bak, Linsley is the  known quantity and you don't make a change.

Sherrod is what he is and I'm doubtful Bulaga will be around next year. Agree with others that RT makes quite a bit of sense.

It is interesting when Tretter may even be the better player, but for the ever-important O-line consistency they may not make a change anyway, or at least until after the bye.

Of course that's assuming nobody gets hurt before then....

For the rest of this season, Tretter immediately steps in as the swing interior guy when he's healthy. That seems fairly obvious to me. At this point you probably have to live or die with Sherrod backing up at the tackle positions until 2015.

Die.