{"id":6399,"date":"2013-11-02T16:38:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T20:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6399"},"modified":"2013-11-02T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T20:38:04","slug":"josh-mccown-will-start-for-bears-in-mondays-game-against-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/11\/02\/josh-mccown-will-start-for-bears-in-mondays-game-against-packers\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh McCown will start for Bears in Monday&#8217;s game against Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6400\" alt=\"joshmccown\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/joshmccown.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/joshmccown.jpg 650w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/joshmccown-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/joshmccown-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Josh McCown will get the start for the Chicago Bears against the Green Bay Packers on Monday night. With Jay Cutler out due to a groin injury suffered in Week 7 the Bears will have to trust McCown to operate the offense.<\/p>\n<p>Cutler is hoping to return early from his groin injury which has a four week timetable.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s start will be the first for McCown since the final game of the 2011 season against the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXPECTING: <\/strong><a title=\"Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari expecting second child\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/31\/jay-cutler-and-kristin-cavallari-expecting-second-child\/\">Cutler &amp; wife expecting second child<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filling in for Cutler in Week 7 he was 14-of-20 for 204 yards with one touchdown against the Redskins. Expectations should be set a bit lower in Monday&#8217;s game against the Packers.<\/p>\n<p>After starting the season 3-0 the Bears are in danger of being 4-4 following Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh McCown will get the start for the Chicago Bears against the Green Bay Packers on Monday night. With Jay Cutler out due to a groin injury suffered in Week 7 the Bears will have to trust McCown to operate the offense. Cutler is hoping to return early from his groin injury which has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,114,456],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-jay-cutler","10":"tag-josh-mccown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399","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=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}