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Posted On: 6/7/06
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Tony Lombardi
TREVOR PRYCE ON RUSHING THE PASSER
After his first mandatory mini camp practice, Trevor Pryce met with the media to share his early thoughts on being a Raven and his role in the Ravens’ defense.
 
What do you think the potential for this Ravens defense could be?
 
“Playing against the Ravens all those years and all those times, when they talked about bringing me in it was probably one of the most exciting things for me after being drafted.  It’s not so much the names, because when I was in Denver we brought free agents in every year and the names you saw, we were [still] ok at best sometimes.  When everybody bought into the team thing is when we were really good. 
 
I look at this the same way.  They have big name guys here but the big name guys can actually play.”
 
Shannon Sharpe told you that if you get the chance to play for the Ravens play for them..  Are you seeing now why he said that to you?
 
“Absolutely, already I’m seeing that.  The same schedule we have [in mini camp] is pretty much the same schedule we’re going to have during the season and it’s one that allows you to recover and let’s your body rest and it isn’t one that is going to run you into the ground.  It’s actually just like Denver because Brian and Mike come from the same San Francisco mold or what San Francisco used to be.  It’s a good thing and I’m enjoying it tremendously.  The weather is good today and I’m liking it a lot.”
 
It seems like the defense is developing a strong camaraderie.  How does that feel?
 
“It feels good.  Nobody likes being the new guy and what the new guys do no matter who he is, he has to find his place and not go out there and beat on his chest.  I’ve been around guys who tried to be the guy from the day they stepped on to the field and it [doesn’t] work – it goes backwards.  So I think I’m just going to find my place with the defense and what I can’t say and what I can say and what I should say and who I should be saying it to.  Right now I’m keeping it quiet.”
 
How do you think that it’s going to be once that you get some of the guys like Ray and Ed back in?
 
“I don’t know.  Right now it’s a pretty stout defense.  And mostly everyone runs real fast.  There’s probably only 5 or 6 [defenses] like that in the NFL built around speed and how fast you can move from side to side.  So I don’t know yet.  I’m just trying to learn the defense more than anything else.  Right now it’s a little confusing and I really don’t know where to line up.  But other than that once we get that straight, we’ll be great! (said with a bit of sly sarcasm).  Once I figure out where the hell I’m going.” 
 
How much different is this scheme than the one you played on in Denver?
 
Completely different!  I honestly don’t know what position I play [here]..  I’ve been in Denver for 9 years and we’ve had different coordinators but all of them came under Greg [Robinson] or worked with Greg.  So the defense never really changed.  It was always the same for 9 years.  They did tweak some things.  What Denver did last year is an evolution of what we did.  When I first got there to up the middle of when I was there, we dropped half the time.  Last year we dropped every play.  It was an evolution.
 
Now I’m wiping all that stuff clean.  There are times in Denver when they would put in a defense just by seeing a name.  Whatever the defense was I could figure out what to do – one name links to another or something crazy like that.  Here it is completely every man for himself.
 
Rex has made it clear that you will be going after the quarterback.
 
I was telling someone that against Buffalo I think I dropped more than I rushed and no defensive lineman wants that problem.  I can see it already that they’re putting some stuff in that will allow whoever the front four guys, or two or five – I don’t even know what the number is, to go after the quarterback which is a welcomed change for me because I just really never had a chance to do it last year.
 
The Ravens challenge the versatility of players as evidenced by what they’ve done with Adalius Thomas and Terrell Suggs.  Are you concerned that you will be asked to do something that you’ve never done before?
 
No, I played a lot of linebacker last year in the 3-4 package, so I’m used to all of that.  And they’re looking at me [now] like ‘Trevor’s on the drop side, switch him up.’  And I’m like ‘I did this every snap last year so I know how to drop, I know coverages.’  All of us had to learn them.  So being pushed as a defensive lineman from a technique standpoint is a lot easier.  All I play [now] is defensive line.  I don’t play linebacker or safety yet!  That day is coming.
 
Do you feel like in some ways your statistics from last season are misleading?
 
Absolutely!  Someone told me this last week when I was in Denver one of the reporters said to me that I had 46 pressures – somewhere in there.  So I did get a chance to rush and force the quarterback to throw an incomplete pass.  That’s what a pressure is supposed to be.  You affected a quarterback and the ball was not completed.  And I had 46 of those so it was very misleading.  But still when they don’t see the sacks – I had what, 9 personal fouls on quarterbacks.  Or as he’s getting rid of the ball I hit him on his chin.  So those 9 could have easily been sacks.
 
I’m not so much worried about it anymore.  I know that I played well and the Denver staff knows that I played well.  They do, they told me!

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Posted On: 6/7/06
Written By:  
Tony Lombardi

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