Patler
08-25-2014, 08:11 AM
According to JSO, it is a case of younger guy out and older guy in with Linsley replacing Tretter:
The 23-year-old Linsley, who is five months older than Tretter, will be embedding himself with the other four starters in an attempt to become familiar with their pre-snap checks by the Sept. 4 opener in Seattle. (Emphasis added.)
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/with-jc-tretter-out-rookie-corey-linsley-must-step-up-b99336315z1-272514041.html
But, a search of their bios tells us this:
Corey Linsley DOB - July 27, 1991
J. C. Tretter DOB - Feb. 12, 1991.
I checked several sites, and all reported the same birthdays, which looks like Tretter is the older one.
That's relatively insignificant (but does demonstrate their lack of fact checking). However, in the same article, they tell us this:
Other than the fact that Tretter played in the Ivy League and Linsley played in the Big Ten, there is little to differentiate them. (Emphasis added)
At 6 feet 3½ inches, Tretter is a full inch taller than Linsley. Tretter has longer arms (333/8 inches to 32) but Linsley performed better on bench-press testing (36 reps to 29).
Here are a few other measurables, with Tretter listed first:
Weight (both are 300), 40-yard dash (5.04 to 5.07 seconds), vertical jump (29½ inches to 27), broad jump (9-1 to 8-11), hand size (101/8 inches to 97/8) and score on the 50-question Wonderlic intelligence test (32 to 33).
So, an inch in height, 1 3/8" arm length, 7 reps in the bench press test and 2 1/2" in vertical jumps are apparently insignificant differences?
Isn't this the same "news" reporting outfit that in the past has told us one guy was too short and another had good size based on an inch difference in height? And arm length!!! In the past, they drew distinctions for less than an inch difference, now 1 3/8" is meaningless?
At least they are consistently inconsistent.
The 23-year-old Linsley, who is five months older than Tretter, will be embedding himself with the other four starters in an attempt to become familiar with their pre-snap checks by the Sept. 4 opener in Seattle. (Emphasis added.)
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/with-jc-tretter-out-rookie-corey-linsley-must-step-up-b99336315z1-272514041.html
But, a search of their bios tells us this:
Corey Linsley DOB - July 27, 1991
J. C. Tretter DOB - Feb. 12, 1991.
I checked several sites, and all reported the same birthdays, which looks like Tretter is the older one.
That's relatively insignificant (but does demonstrate their lack of fact checking). However, in the same article, they tell us this:
Other than the fact that Tretter played in the Ivy League and Linsley played in the Big Ten, there is little to differentiate them. (Emphasis added)
At 6 feet 3½ inches, Tretter is a full inch taller than Linsley. Tretter has longer arms (333/8 inches to 32) but Linsley performed better on bench-press testing (36 reps to 29).
Here are a few other measurables, with Tretter listed first:
Weight (both are 300), 40-yard dash (5.04 to 5.07 seconds), vertical jump (29½ inches to 27), broad jump (9-1 to 8-11), hand size (101/8 inches to 97/8) and score on the 50-question Wonderlic intelligence test (32 to 33).
So, an inch in height, 1 3/8" arm length, 7 reps in the bench press test and 2 1/2" in vertical jumps are apparently insignificant differences?
Isn't this the same "news" reporting outfit that in the past has told us one guy was too short and another had good size based on an inch difference in height? And arm length!!! In the past, they drew distinctions for less than an inch difference, now 1 3/8" is meaningless?
At least they are consistently inconsistent.