{"id":10757,"date":"2014-07-18T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10757"},"modified":"2014-07-18T12:31:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:31:39","slug":"jimmy-clausen-could-enter-season-as-bears-backup-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/07\/18\/jimmy-clausen-could-enter-season-as-bears-backup-qb\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Clausen could enter season as Bears backup QB"},"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=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/07\/clausenbears.jpg 620w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/07\/clausenbears-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/07\/clausenbears-50x32.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><br \/>\nWhen the Chicago Bears signed former Notre Dame standout Jimmy Clausen many gasped.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report by ESPN Chicago&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/chicago\/bears\/post\/_\/id\/4692975\/chicago-bears-projected-roster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael C. Wright<\/a> is not likely to make those people feel any better.<\/p>\n<p>Wright say that &#8220;Jimmy Clausen quickly gained ground on Jordan Palmer at the club&#8217;s veteran minicamp and appears poised to unseat the latter for the No. 2 job behind Cutler.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David Fales is also on the Bears roster but he is being looked at for the long-term. <\/p>\n<p>Marc Trestman&#8217;s scheme helped Josh McCown put up big numbers with Jay Culter out however expecting those same results from Clausen or Palmer may be just too much. <\/p>\n<p>Clausen, 26, did not play at all in 2013 after losing out on the backup job in Carolina to Derek Anderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Chicago Bears signed former Notre Dame standout Jimmy Clausen many gasped. A recent report by ESPN Chicago&#8217;s Michael C. Wright is not likely to make those people feel any better. Wright say that &#8220;Jimmy Clausen quickly gained ground on Jordan Palmer at the club&#8217;s veteran minicamp and appears poised to unseat the latter [&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":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-10757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10760,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions\/10760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10757"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}