{"id":4730,"date":"2013-08-28T14:50:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T18:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2013-08-29T09:32:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:32:46","slug":"brandon-marshall-taking-four-day-absence-from-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/08\/28\/brandon-marshall-taking-four-day-absence-from-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Marshall taking four-day absence from Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130828-144909.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/08\/20130828-144909.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBrandon Marshall is taking a four-day absence from the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of Marshall was per-approved by head coach Marc Trestman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a planned-out miss today for personal reasons,\u201d Trestman said via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/football\/bears\/chi-chicago-bears-brandon-marshall-absent-20130828,0,7421326.story\" target=\"news\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>. \u201cI let him go for personal reasons. But something that has been part of the off season plan since started training camp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first-year head coach would not tie the absence to Marshall&#8217;s hip and again referred to it as personal reasons when pressed by reporters. Though it is worth mentioning that Brian Urlacher&#8217;s absence from the Bears for knee treatment last season was also considered &#8220;personal reasons&#8221; by the Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Marshall caught 118 passes for 1,508 yards setting franchise records in the process. In January the 29-year-old underwent his third hip surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far Marshall has been a full participant in camp.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally Tretsman expects DT Henry Melton to be cleared for the Bears season opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Marshall is taking a four-day absence from the Chicago Bears. The absence of Marshall was per-approved by head coach Marc Trestman. \u201cThis was a planned-out miss today for personal reasons,\u201d Trestman said via the Chicago Tribune. \u201cI let him go for personal reasons. But something that has been part of the off season plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[147,36],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-4730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brandon-marshall","9":"tag-chicago-bears"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","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=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}