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Pride will experience an adjustment period like all rookies, especially when it comes to game speed. But without a preseason schedule, the opportunities to impress will be limited to meetings and the practice field.
"Because I haven't had any preseason games before, I wouldn't know what they would do for me or what they wouldn't," Pride said. "But I think that I'm going to be ready when my name is called."
This has been the most extended offseason the vast majority of NFL players have ever experienced. Now, as it comes to an end, Pride is ecstatic to begin the process of finally feeling like an NFL player — even though Carolina drafted him months ago. He sees his present task as making the best of this unique situation.
"Not just finger-pointing, not just sitting there and saying, 'Oh shoot, we don't have this, we weren't able to do that,'" Pride said. "What I'm saying is, let's just make this difficult time fun."