When Donte Whitner walked onto the field Aug. 14 at the Rogers Centre, the Buffalo Bills strong safety was shocked to see more Pittsburgh Steelers fans clad in black and gold than Bills fans wearing red, white and blue
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He's sore ... I think he's going to be sore, but he practiced and he practiced pretty well.
I'm feeling good ... I've had three or four days of practice this week and we'll see how it goes. I don't know what coach said, but I expect to play. I want to play. It's up to them. It depends on how I progress in the next two days and we'll go from there.
I really like the special teams coach ... We play some pretty good teams, so hopefully I can help.
Teddy Lehman's an experienced backer in the league and he's experienced in our system, so it'll help us ... Obviously, when you look at our linebacker group, the three backups are not very experienced at all, so we thought it was a good opportunity to add somebody. We had a roster spot available and Teddy's a high-quality guy, he'll fit in with us and I think he'll help us. He'll definitely give us a little more comfort in terms of experience.
We have to get our swagger back. Going into these past couple of weeks, we haven't had that normal swagger. We're going to try to get that back because that's when we were going out, having fun and we were making plays when we were doing that. So I think that's something we want to address, just getting that swagger back and getting back to how we were playing when we were 4-0.
Certain universities you get taught how to play in the NFL from the routes that you run and the schemes ... At Indiana, we didn't learn any of that stuff and this has been a new beginning for me coming here. I'm just trying to get adjusted and catch up as fast as I can.
He's been a good back in this league for a while. He's a downhill runner. You know exactly what he's going to get. He's a good power back with some speed, so we have to go out there and gang-tackle him and tackle well and hopefully, like you said, get some turnovers and try and get the ball out.