{"id":10857,"date":"2014-08-08T23:07:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T03:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10857"},"modified":"2014-08-08T23:07:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T03:07:19","slug":"jimmy-clausen-outplays-jordan-palmer-in-bears-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/08\/jimmy-clausen-outplays-jordan-palmer-in-bears-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Clausen outplays Jordan Palmer in Bears opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/07\/clausenbears.jpg\" alt=\"clausenbears\" width=\"620\" height=\"407\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10758\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/07\/clausenbears.jpg 620w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/07\/clausenbears-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/07\/clausenbears-50x32.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><br \/>\nJimmy Clausen signed on with the Chicago Bears this offseason and is competing with Jordan Palmer for the right to be No. 2 on the depth chart at quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday Clausen was 7-of-13 passes for 150 yards, two touchdowns, and a two-point conversion completion in the Bears&#8217; preseason opener Friday night against the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Clausen&#8217;s numbers were better than Palmer who finished the night 8-of-11 for 104 yards with one touchdown and an interception.<\/p>\n<p>While Clausen may be listed as the third stringer for now, all signs point to the former Notre Dame standout landing as the backup for this season behind Jay Cutler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Clausen signed on with the Chicago Bears this offseason and is competing with Jordan Palmer for the right to be No. 2 on the depth chart at quarterback. On Friday Clausen was 7-of-13 passes for 150 yards, two touchdowns, and a two-point conversion completion in the Bears&#8217; preseason opener Friday night against the Philadelphia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,716,678],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-10857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-bears","tag-jimmy-clausen","tag-jordan-palmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10858,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions\/10858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10857"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}