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i saw he got hurt last night.
All i can find is this:
Bills starting strong safety Matt Bowen suffered a lower leg injury in the first half but X-rays were negative. He was replaced by top pick Donte Whitner.
Well, if nothing else, Whitner won't have to learn the position from the bench. I liked what I saw from Whitner. None of our DBs will look good though if we can't generate a decent pass rush with the front four.
It sounds like one of those things where he took the hit right on the nerveand perhaps on the bone. It can hurt like hell, especially right after impact, for a couple of days, but is not nearly as serious as tearing or pulling something. Depending on where it is, he'll probably have to stay off of it for a couple of days and miss a few practices to keep from injuring something else compensating for it. He probably will miss the Cincy game, but, from the sound of it, it shouldn't keep him from being able to play in the regular season.
What it will do is give the coaches a chance to really throw Donte Whitner into the deep end of the pool and force him to learn how to swim a lot faster. It didn't sound like he was ready to come in last week when Bowen went down and, given the fact that he was quoted as saying that he didn't think his holdout cost him that much in terms of being behind, maybe it was a good thing that he struggled a bit after being forced to go in. Nothing like a little forced humility and a lot of playing time to get a guy like Whitner focused on how much he still has to learn.... Certainly he can only benefit from the extra reps that he will be getting. They're going to be asking a lot of him in this defense and there's no doubt that he is going to struggle at times, like he did on Saturday night, but it's good that he's having some struggles and getting a little extra playing time now--that can only serve to make him better sooner.
And, it sounds like Bowen will be back soon enough to push him and be a safety net behind him when he struggles--which is also good.
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