{"id":11521,"date":"2014-09-14T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T15:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11521"},"modified":"2014-09-14T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T15:02:17","slug":"bears-could-be-without-brandon-marshall-or-alshon-jeffery-against-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/09\/14\/bears-could-be-without-brandon-marshall-or-alshon-jeffery-against-49ers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears could be without Brandon Marshall or Alshon Jeffery against 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/alshonjeffreybrandonmarshall.jpg\" alt=\"alshonjeffreybrandonmarshall\" width=\"594\" height=\"428\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2771\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/alshonjeffreybrandonmarshall.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/alshonjeffreybrandonmarshall-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/02\/alshonjeffreybrandonmarshall-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Bears are a touchdown underdog on the road against the 49ers but that was prior to word coming out that wide receivers Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery were &#8220;75 percent&#8221; certain to miss the Sunday night tilt from ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n<p>If Marshall and\/or Jeffery were to play then quarterback Jay Cutler would have two tall targets against a banged up 49ers secondary but as it is both are game-time decisions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Major questions about Bears WRs, Marshall and Jeffery. One source said &quot;75 percent&quot; sure neither plays tonight. Bears signed two PS WRs Sat.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/511085410312007680\">September 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jeffery was able to do some limited practice on Friday while Marshall missed the entire week. If both are truly out then Santonio Holmes would be the Bears No. 1 option in the passing game. This would also suggest an uptick in production for running back Matt Forte and potentially for tight end Martellus Bennett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bears are a touchdown underdog on the road against the 49ers but that was prior to word coming out that wide receivers Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery were &#8220;75 percent&#8221; certain to miss the Sunday night tilt from ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter. If Marshall and\/or Jeffery were to play then quarterback Jay Cutler would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[224,147,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-11521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alshon-jeffery","9":"tag-brandon-marshall","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521","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=11521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11522,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521\/revisions\/11522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11521"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}