Jason Wilde @jasonjwilde 1h
There you go. RT @RobDemovsky: Alan Herman, @JCTretter's agent: "The timeline is such that it would make sense to designate him for return."
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Jason Wilde @jasonjwilde 1h
There you go. RT @RobDemovsky: Alan Herman, @JCTretter's agent: "The timeline is such that it would make sense to designate him for return."
So help me out, PB, when's the earliest Tretter could be back?
At this point in the season, what's the rush to use it? Anybody they sign will probably be one of the inactives, right?
8 games is a lot.
If Linsley plays well and improves game-to-game, they might just stick with him as the starter. Tretter is effectively a rookie too.
hate to see them use that so early. it might come in handy later. guess they want to bring someone up.
WTF, didn't MM just say the other day Tretter wasn't a candidate for IR return?
Don't like it to use on Tretter. He doesn't have to step right into the starting role after four weeks, but having him available as the backup is much more ideal than Gerhart...
I'd think at the end of the season would be the time you'd want that extra roster spot.
I don't think when you use it matters. All 16 games count the same. The non-season-ending injuries aren't particularly clustered anywhere.
I think the way to maximize the use of the return IR is to use it on a guy whose injury takes a full 6 weeks to heal. They are allowed to practice after 6 weeks, then play in games two weeks after that. Tretter's injury probably fits that time window well.
I wonder if Linsley will be better or worse than EDS from last season.
Was there a setback or something? The original report was 4-6 weeks from the injury - possibility to come back the 3rd regular season game. Apparently Linsley is doing well enough that getting Tretter back is not urgent, but a delay like they're talking about now would seem to either indicate the injury is worse or else be unnecessarily dragged out.
I'd hate to use is it so early and we don't really know the injury timeline apparently. Tretter isn't proven yet and maybe Linsey is actually a player. There is basically nothing known here except practices and some preseason film.
Obviously Linsey could tank and it would backfire.
Maybe he just meant the Packers weren't looking at him as a candidate for that designation. I didn't hear or read the quote myself, just thinking...
He hurt it in the 3rd preseason game. The Seahawks game will make 2 weeks. 5 weeks will be passed at the conclusion of the week 4 game
The recovery time estimates we hear are just guesses. Those estimates can change again. Tretter has some sort off stress fracture in his knee. That's kind of an oddball injury.
I think it was Cobb who had a stress fracture in foot last year where recovery time was double the initial estimate.
I think Tretter's agent gave a timeline, basically two possibilities, here is one:
http://www.espnwisconsin.com/page.php?page_id=278Quote:
Tretter suffered an impaction fracture in his left knee during the team’s Aug. 22 preseason game against Oakland and has already been ruled out for Thursday's opener at Seattle. An NFL source said last week that Tretter was told by the medical staff that he was likely to miss up to six weeks because of the injury.
Looking for the actual quote from Herman prior to full diagnosis. BTW, I think six weeks is probably the current number.