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NFL: Crisis of confidence over, Whitner excelling
By Sam Farmer
LOS ANGELES TIMES Friday February 1, 2013

NEW ORLEANS ? If all goes well for safety Donte Whitner, Sunday night will go the way his first night with the San Francisco 49ers did.

Meaning, he won?t get a wink of sleep.

Traditionally, the team that wins the Super Bowl has an all-night party after the game. Last season, Whitner pulled an all-nighter on his first day with the 49ers, but it was far from a party. In an effort to retool the secondary, then-rookie coach Jim Harbaugh signed Whitner in August 2011 and expected him to get up to speed right away.

?They told me, ?You?re starting the next game. You?ve got to be very vocal,? ? recalled Whitner, the former Ohio State player who spent his first five seasons with Buffalo. ?So I stayed up all night. At training camp the next day I was exhausted, but it just showed them I was willing to work and come in and lead this team.?

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http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...sis-of-confidence-over-whitner-excelling.html
 
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Donte Whitner: Niners will be champs
Updated: February 6, 2013
ESPN.com news services

Donte Whitner has no doubt that the San Francisco 49ers are ready to become Super Bowl champions.

"We take steps every year," Whitner told CSNBayArea.com. "Last year we made it to the NFC Championship Game with no expectations. This year we made it to the Super Bowl and 5 yards from the championship. Next year we gonna win this thing. Nobody cares about second place."

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Next year we gonna win this thing. Nobody cares about second place.
? -- 49ers safety Donte Whitner

Whitner, a key member of the San Francisco secondary, made his proclamation days after the 49ers nearly overcame a 22-point second-half deficit before enduring a heartbreaking 34-31 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII.

San Francisco drove to the Baltimore 5-yard line with under two minutes remaining with a chance to take the lead, but Colin Kaepernick's pass on fourth down fell incomplete, a play in which coach Jim Harbaugh said holding or interference should've been called.

Coming close has been the norm for the Niners, who suffered a 20-17 loss to the New York Giants in the NFC title game the previous season.

Despite Whitner's prediction, getting back to the Super Bowl is anything but a certainity for the Niners, who feature a young roster. No team has returned to the Super Bowl the next season since the New England Patriots won back-to-back titles in 2004 and 2005.
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http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/201...whitner-says-san-francisco-49ers-win-all-2014
 
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Whitner's Blog: It's A Wrap
Donte Whitner Hard-Hitting Journalist @DonteWhitner Players Only Blog

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Donte Whitner proved to be one of the leaders of the 49ers defense in 2012, earning the first Pro Bowl bid of his career alongside eight other of his teammates. Ultimately, Whitner and the 49ers fell short of the ultimate goal with a tough 34-31 loss to Baltimore in Super Bowl XLVII. Before he left the Bay Area for some offseason relaxation, Whitner spoke to 49ers.com about the promising future of the franchise and what he plans to do with his free time.

I would put everything on the line for my teammates. I love these guys like brothers. I wish we could have brought this ring back, but it just wasn?t our time yet.

My mind looks forward to the next step because I heard somebody say it earlier ? we didn?t lose, we just haven?t won yet. We have a young nucleus in this locker room full of hungry guys that want to be successful and that?s where it starts, first and foremost. When you have the will to go out there and prepare, and have the will to train to win, everything else will come easier. We have that in this locker room and I truly believe that when we come back for next year, we?ll be a lot better from this.

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http://www.49ers.com/news/article-2/Whitners-Blog-Its-A-Wrap/f7ab6c95-e896-42ee-b022-3a5a7ada6213
 
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MrRedsBills;2303744; said:
According to PPF he was one of the worse S this yr. Yes he can hit but he can't cover (see Super Bowl, Flacco picked on him all day). Wish the 9ers would have won though.

EDIT: https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2013/01/30/signature-stats-first-downs-allowed-safeties/

22 first downs/Tds 6th worse in NFL. Give me neg. rep all ya want doesn't change the fact
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Take a look at the next chart; Whitner is not in the top 10 for first downs and touchdown %. Whitner may have given up a lot of first downs and touchdowns, but that's also partially a result of more opportunities. I would imagine that teams threw more than they ran against SF because of SF's good rush defense, so there's a greater opportunity for Whitner to get beat.

Doesn't mean he was good or bad in pass coverage. It just means that what you quoted isn't evidence of either.

Edit: I guess I mean proof. It is evidence of something but it isn't sufficient to prove anything.
 
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Whitner wonders about his 49ers future
July 19, 2013

Donte Whitner is scheduled to earn $3.85 million in base salary this season after earning a trip to the Pro Bowl last season. (USA TODAY IMAGES)

As strong safety Donte Whitner gets set to report next week for this third 49ers training camp, he expressed doubt whether he will be back in 2014.

"I love the Niners! But will I be here next yr?" Whitner wrote Friday morning on Twitter.

He followed it up a few minutes later with the clarification: "Don't get it twisted! I WANT to be here?.."

Whitner signed a three-year, $11.4 million contract with the 49ers in August 2011. He is scheduled to earn $3.85 million in base salary this season after earning a trip to the Pro Bowl last season for the first time in his seven-year career.

Whitner certainly has reason to have his doubts whether he fits into the 49ers' long-term plans. But he also has the ability to control much of his own fate with his play this season as well as his contract demands.

After all, teammate Justin Smith negotiated his own deal last month and accepted a below-market-value deal that pays him $4.35 million per season to remain with the 49ers through 2015.
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http://www.csnbayarea.com/blog/matt-maiocco/whitner-wonders-about-his-49ers-future
 
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49ers' Whitner: The heck with history; we're the team to beat
July 30, 2013

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Donte Whitner was beaten by new teammate Anquan Boldin for a SB XLVII touchdown. (USATSI) Donte Whitner was beaten by new teammate Anquan Boldin for a SB XLVII touchdown. (USATSI)

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- San Francisco safety Donte Whitner knows the history of Super Bowl losers, and it's not good. So maybe that's why he doesn't buy into it. But it's not just that Whitner believes the 49ers, the team that lost Super Bowl XLVII, won't submit to history.

It's that he insists they can make history of their own.

"We feel like we're not only the team to beat in this conference, but the whole, entire NFL," he said after Tuesday's practice. "We have to go out, prove it and continue to work, but that's just the way we feel."

Good. They should. It's training camp, and nobody has lost a game.

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Boldin should fill in nicely for injured Crabtree

But history tells a different story about these 49ers. It says they have virtually no shot of reaching a second straight Super Bowl, with their chances much better of reaching the playoffs. Let the record show that, not including the 49ers, four of the previous six teams to lose Super Bowls reached the postseason the following year, but only two -- the 2009 Arizona Cards and last year's New England Patriots -- won playoff games.

Let it also show that no Super Bowl loser since the 1993 Buffalo Bills returned to the league championship game the next season.

I didn't have to recite those numbers to Whitner. He's aware of them. He's also aware of the talent and depth that surrounds him in practice, and you don't need a roster to know the 49ers are loaded. But the New England Patriots were loaded in 2008, too. Then Tom Brady bowed out in the season opener. The 2011 Green Bay Packers were supposed to be built for the long haul following their Super Bowl XLV defeat of Pittsburgh. Then they lost their playoff opener.

"So why the optimism?" I asked Whitner.

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"This is our third year together -- offense, defense, special teams," he said. "We're still working on the small details, but everybody has knowledge of all three phases. We feel like we have top-notch players -- top players in the NFL -- and the icing on the cake is the coaching staff.

"This is a staff that continues to get us ready, game-in-and-game-out. And with our scheme, the amount of time they put in, the understanding of what calls are coming, what teams are tying to do against us and coaching players up ... that's why I feel we're the best team in the National Football League."

"So you're the team to defy history?" I said.

"Yes," Whitner answered.

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http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/c...r-the-heck-with-history-were-the-team-to-beat
 
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Donte Whitner on the 49ers defense: ?We have to get back to the way we played in 2011″

Posted by Tim Kawakami on August 3rd, 2013

Safety Donte Whitner was so interesting and passionate when I spoke to him about 49ers defensive coordinator Vic Fangio that I might as well post this short interview transcript, too?

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-Q: We know Fangio as a guy who doesn?t dodge anything with the media. Is he that way with you? Is that the way it works?

-WHITNER: That?s the way it works if you want to have a great defense. If you want to make guys accountable for their actions, you have to be a straight-shooter.

That?s why we go out there and we prepare the way we do because we don?t want to put that stuff on film.

Because then he gets in there and he grills you in those meetings on why you did what you did and the proper way to do it, you don?t really want that.

He is a straight-shooter. Everybody believes that. The way he is with the media is the way he is with us.

-Q: He said he told you guys before camp that things slid a little at the end of the season and in the playoffs.

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http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawaka...o-the-engine-that-keeps-this-defense-ticking/
 
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