Donte Whitner

andes14 · 2011-11-14T14:10:00-08:00

I like Whitner. He's a real nice football player. But I don't think he's a particularly good safety for this team the way we're built. He's a quasi-4th linebacker (a la Michael Lewis, Taylor Mays, and most of our recent strong safeties), which would be great for a team that isn't great defending the run. But given how amazing our front 7 is, we don't really need a safety to have a prominent role in defending the run. We should have 2 safeties that are moreso built to defend the pass. IMO, Goldson should be SS and we should get a ball-hawking, centerfielding free safety at some point.

Nov 14, 2011 at 2:14 PM

WildBill
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We just may, but this can be easily remedied by putting in another DB. Culliver may end up moving thier if they get a quality CB next year through the draft or FA. Of course they need to resign Rodgers. first.

Nov 14, 2011 at 2:14 PM

HoRneR
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I don't know if you watched the games yesterday but his coverage was pretty damn good in my opinion

Nov 14, 2011 at 2:17 PM

Yunchang
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Originally posted by HoRneR:
I don't know if you watched the games yesterday but his coverage was pretty damn good in my opinion

Don't forget about the should of been forced fumble

Nov 14, 2011 at 2:17 PM

NCommand
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He had great coverage on a few plays esp. on Cruz with Rogers; almost got an INT but certainly, our safeties are NOT good at providing consistent coverage over the top which leaves our CB's on an island more often than not. Its a valid concern...and a good team can exploit that.

Nov 14, 2011 at 2:28 PM

Hopper
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Whitner is much better in coverage than I heard from a few Bills fans, certainly better than Michael Lewis

Nov 14, 2011 at 3:05 PM

verb1der
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Cmon guys, we can't have Patrick Willis level players at EVERY position.

8-1!

Nov 14, 2011 at 3:26 PM

jreff22
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Originally posted by WildBill:
We just may, but this can be easily remedied by putting in another DB. Culliver may end up moving thier if they get a quality CB next year through the draft or FA. Of course they need to resign Rodgers. first.

Culliver will stay at CB

Nov 14, 2011 at 4:42 PM

LasVegasWally
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He played a solid game yesterday.

Nov 14, 2011 at 4:45 PM

frenchmov
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what are you talking about? whitner has made a lot of plays in the pass game. yesterday he came over all the way across the field to deflect a pass that was going to be caught by cruz (rogers was a bit out of position)

Nov 21, 2011 at 2:24 PM

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global_nomad
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Whitner on NFL Live right now:
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Nov 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM

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qnnhan7
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Solid vet. Reminds me of Tony Parrish.

Nov 21, 2011 at 2:57 PM

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AB81Rules
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Love Whitner, he is always making key tackles. And good in coverage.

He reminds me like Parrish as well, he is a tough nose guy, does everything asked of him. So glad he spurned the bengals for us, lol.

Nov 21, 2011 at 3:00 PM

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Bryant4everYoung
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Originally posted by qnnhan7:
Solid vet. Reminds me of Tony Parrish.

Ditto. Parrish was a baller, although wasn't a ball hawk because dude had too many muscles.

Nov 21, 2011 at 3:04 PM

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Cjez
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seems like a different DB steps up in every game. Love it! Goldson and Rogers are pretty consistent.