{"id":11072,"date":"2014-08-22T18:08:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2014-08-22T18:08:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T22:08:16","slug":"blaine-gabbert-is-the-49ers-backup-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/22\/blaine-gabbert-is-the-49ers-backup-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaine Gabbert is the 49ers backup &#8220;right now&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10846\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10846\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/blainegabbert.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/blainegabbert.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/blainegabbert-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/blainegabbert-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blaine Gabbert will remain second on the depth chart at quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers as the team enters its third preseason game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlaine is that guy right now,\u201d Harbaugh said of Gabbert.<\/p>\n<p>If head coach Jim Harbaugh&#8217;s comments about Blaine Gabbert did not seem too sencire one could simply look at his preseason numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbert has completed 11 of 25 passes for 60 yards with two interceptions for a 17.9 quarterback rating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t judge it off just those,\u201d Harbaugh told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2014\/08\/22\/6647558\/49ers-notes-harbaugh-says-gabberts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sacramento Bee<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve been pretty clear what I thought we needed to get better as, as a unit. Team-oriented offense that has precision and plays wells together, all 11, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to be striving for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019ve had a good week,\u201d he said. \u201cFeel like we made progress. Hopefully, that progress shows up on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Josh Johnson and McLeod Bethel-Thompson will again follow Gabbert into Sunday&#8217;s game against San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaine Gabbert will remain second on the depth chart at quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers as the team enters its third preseason game. \u201cBlaine is that guy right now,\u201d Harbaugh said of Gabbert. If head coach Jim Harbaugh&#8217;s comments about Blaine Gabbert did not seem too sencire one could simply look at his preseason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[92,209],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-11072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-blaine-gabbert","9":"tag-san-francisco-49ers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072","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=11072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11073,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions\/11073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}