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Corey Linsley or J.C. Tretter — Who You Got?

Monty McMahon by Monty McMahon
December 22, 2015
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Corey Linsley

It wasn’t readily apparent on Sunday, but J.C. Tretter started at center for the Green Bay Packers even though Corey Linsley was active.

Tretter has started three of the past four games after Linsley suffered an ankle injury in week 11. Linsley returned in week 13, but only briefly before aggravating the injury.

This time when Linsley returned, he didn’t get his old job back.

Has Tretter played so well the Packers simply cannot take him out of the lineup? Probably not, but there are some who believe Tretter has played better than Linsley this season.

Pro Football Focus has Linsley graded slightly higher than Tretter (76.4 to 74.5). A lot of people take their grades as gospel, but we are not among them.

Frankly, the only difference we see is in ability. Linsley is a mauler, a motor guy, tries real hard. Tretter is more athletic and smarter.

Based upon those descriptions alone, we’d rather see the latter guy in the lineup, providing the output is fairly equal.

So is there a controversy brewing? Packers coach Mike McCarthy says there isn’t.

“J.C. has played good football for us. Corey, in the long-term interest, I thought it was the best for our offense. We’ll see where Corey is Wednesday and he’ll continue to work through it. … There’s no controversy. It’s a medical situation. Corey is not 100 percent out of the woods.”

McCarthy is clearly suggesting the decision to start Tretter over Linsley is because Linsley is still being affected by the ankle injury, even though he was active for the game.

That’s not unheard of. Linsley could have been viewed as an emergency lineman.

The Packers nearly got to the point of needing such an individual at Detroit.

Having an “injured” player active and not playing him is just not customary. If the player really is too injured to play, then you use that game-day spot for someone who can play. That makes us wonder if Big Mike is just blowing smoke.

After all, it’s not unprecedented for a guy to lose his spot because he got injured.

It seems to us that happened not too long ago…

Oh yeah, when Tretter got injured and the Packers handed his spot to Linsley. That happened just last year.

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Comments 4

  1. Avatar for ay hombre ay hombre says:
    7 years ago

    Can’t help but feel Linsley has been battling injury just like Bakhtiari. Hard to explain how they could drop off so fast otherwise.

    Tretter is healthier. Run with him until that’s not the case.

  2. Avatar for SIM SIM says:
    7 years ago

    Agreed. The line seems a little more solid the past few weeks and other than the bad snap in the bears game tretter has been holding his own.

  3. Avatar for TyKo Steamboat TyKo Steamboat says:
    7 years ago

    Better get it right cause the O-Line blows huge donkey balls.

  4. Avatar for Daved Simko Daved Simko says:
    7 years ago

    Tretter isn’t doing too badly which is good for the Packers but we need both of them he is injury prone and I believe is almost as good as Linsley but believe he cost us the Bears game.

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