Price Up To “75 Percent”
November 2nd, 2011
There was no sightseeing in London for Brian Price. No. 92 didn’t want to confuse business with pleasure, so he told fans on Total Access on WDAE-AM 620 Monday.
Price said he’s “a businessman” and for him the week overseas was all football and he’s no fan of distractions. Price said he doubted he’d return to London because the food was “horrible.”
It was a revealing interview by Price, one in which he talked about growing up in a very religious home in a rough neighborhood (Price lost both his brothers to violent crimes) and about how his heinous hips/hamstring injuries and surgeries changed his work ethic.
Brian Price: I love going to work. I wake up at 3 a.m. wishing it was 7 o’clock so I can be at work already.
Host T.J. Rives: Seriously?
Price: Man, you don’t know how it is being on IR. I’m just more hungry. … At first everthing was just given to me, but now I work so hard. I get up so early and come to work ready to work everyday. There’s not a day I want to slack. I’m just hungry. I just love getting better each and every day. Something new I work on every day. I just love it. I love this game. Having something that you love taken away from you hurts, so you never want it to leave your side again.”
“It was a humbling experience. You know I couldn’t bathe myself. I couldn’t change myself. Going through all that and not being able to run, I had to learn that all over again. It was a just a humbling experience that makes somebody hungry.”
Price went on to talk about how three days following his surgeries he was motivated to be in the gym lifting weights even though he couldn’t walk. “Half the weight I gained was pure muscle,” Price said.
He described the long road to get his legs moving and his wife challenging him to try and run. Price said he could only go 10 steps in his first run attempt and built up in extremely small increments from there. He recalled being excited weeks later, eagerly telephoning his wife in late July when he ran around the block three times.
As for his current health, Price says he’s “at 75 percent now.” And times when he’s seen limping at the end of a play or when trainers helped him off the field in London, Price said, it’s strictly pain-related.
Joe can’t say enough about what Price has pulled off this season. Consdering how effective he’s been, it should be pretty darn special to see what kind of season he turns out in 2012.
On Sunday’s Saints-Bucs game, Price is ready for a punishing Saints offensive line. “This is going to be a brawl,” Price said. “It’s like an alley brawl. You gotta pick up anything and hit somebody with it or you’re going to get hurt.”
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:51 am
Chalk Price up as a huge win for Dominik. What a draft pick. He is hungry, angry, and plays the way you’re supposed to play. Not only that, but he has elite athleticism and strength. The kind of guy every coach dreams of. Him and McCoy should be a top 3 tackle tandem over the next few years.
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:53 am
Oh and BTW he’s doing all this at 75%. This guy is going to dominate the NFL when he’s 100%.
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:53 am
I really do hope that bye week helped him get healthier. We really need this guy to play more and more as the season moves forward. The better he becomes the more effective Clayborn and McCoy will be.
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:58 am
It’s going to be him and GMC handling two of the best guards in the league, the rest of the O-line is garbage, but the Saints guards are no joke. Lucky for us the Saints do not posses a power back who could actually take advantage of those two road-graders blocking through the middle. This has to be a war in the trenches, which is a war we can win.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:02 pm
By the next two years I think will have one of the best d-lines in the league.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Everytime I see Price go off the field I cringe. But everytime a few plays later I see he’s back in there. The kid is real.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:22 pm
These past two weeks away from gameday wear and tear as well as the mandated time off(Im a big fan of that) should have rejuvenated Price and the entire team. Those kids should be hyped as heck to play. Which immediately makes me think big plays and big mistakes.
November 2nd, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Just waiting for Thomas 2.2 to mention Gmac in this post in 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
November 2nd, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Can not wait to see McCoy and Price both 100% dominating the middle next year! (Hopefully by the end of this year)
November 2nd, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Price is climbing the ladder of favorite players. The kid has more heart than anyone on the team. I also agree with DEW – Every time Price writhes on the ground in pain I get a sick feeling in my stomach. But the man always comes back for more. How do you spell STUD? P-R-I-C-E.
Agreed D Clark – What’s even funnier is, on a different website there is an article about how the defense is struggling without GMC. I just picture Thomas 2.lame’s head exploding. Granted he’ll never admit it, he’ll just conjure up some nonsense and deny everything just so he sounds right.
In the end who cares about that douche? – GO BUCS! We have an angry Saints team coming up. But they’re a SOFT angry Saints team. We got this. : )
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:33 pm
i love the quote “This is going to be a brawl,” Price said. “It’s like an alley brawl. You gotta pick up anything and hit somebody with it or you’re going to get hurt.”
although i hope he doesn’t say that in front of the helmet swinging animal Talib lmao
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:53 pm
I know BP as a neigbor. You couldn’t find a nicer person. I am glad he is healthy and excelling. You didn’t mention it but his wife is also a worl class athlete and person
November 2nd, 2011 at 3:38 pm
“This is going to be a brawl,” Price said. “It’s like an alley brawl. You gotta pick up anything and hit somebody with it or you’re going to get hurt.”
That sounds like me on the way to the family Thanksgiving dinner!
November 2nd, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Man, what a nasty injury this guy is fighting through.
I worry about him every game. Seems like such a big risk playing football while that’s still healing — seems like his career could end on any play. But I guess I just have to assume the doctors and trainers know what they’re doing letting him go out there and play.
November 2nd, 2011 at 5:10 pm
This dude may be my favorite current player. Seems like a great person off the field and has a mean streak a mile wide on the field! Glad he is improving and wish him nothing but the best.
November 2nd, 2011 at 5:51 pm
I have got ti get this man’s jersey. Wow! I hope he turns out to be our leader because this is what put those skins on the wall.
November 2nd, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Love this guy. All heart and all beast.
November 2nd, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Big Softy won’t get anywhere near a brawl, even a lopsided one where a man is abusing a woman. Certainly, Big Softy will be nowhere near a brawl on Sunday. Thankfully, BP and Clay will show up and brawl. Bucs 0-2 minus Softy vs the Saints. I hope they sit him one more week, because Payton will be trapping and screening his dumb-ss all game long.
November 2nd, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Big Softy won’t get anywhere near a brawl, even a lopsided one where a man is abusing a woman. Certainly, Big Softy will be nowhere near a brawl on Sunday. Thankfully, BP and Clay will show up and brawl. Bucs 2-0 minus Softy vs the Saints. I hope they sit him one more week, because Payton will be trapping and screening his dumb-ss all game long.
November 2nd, 2011 at 9:48 pm
An opinion so good he said it twice. Keep up the great work Thomas 2.2
November 3rd, 2011 at 9:54 am
Drew Brees will pay the Price….