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Browns' Donte Whitner's response to Bengals' Jeremy Hill: 'Sore loser'

Published Nov. 7, 2014 2:54 p.m. ET

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Bengals rookie running back Jeremy Hill didn't have much nice to say about the Browns after the Browns throttled his team, 24-3.

"They're probably worse than I thought, to be honest with you," Hill told ESPN.com's Cole Harvey after the game. "They didn't do anything special to me.

"I mean, respect to them, they won the game," he said. "But that's all I'll give them."

The Browns held Hill to just 55 yards on 12 carries and forced a fumble after Hill exploded for 154 yards and two touchdowns just a week earlier in his first game as the featured back after replacing the injured Gio Bernard.

Safety Donte Whitner dismissed the comments as being from a "sore loser."

"That's a rookie, so you can't really take his word as anything more than pure ignorance of being a sore loser," Whitner said on a conference call Friday with the local media. "Other than that, the first thing the coaching staff tells you even if you don't feel that way, is to give the other team credit and [it's an] ignorant comment he made."

The Browns will host the Bengals at FirstEnergy Stadium on Dec. 14.