By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) — The way Terrelle Pryor sees it, the loss to Purdue may wind up being the best thing for him.

“Last week, that opened me up to the world and opened me up to myself and who I am as a person, and us as a team,” Pryor said tonight. “Maybe that was the best thing that happened to us. Maybe we’ll learn from it.”

Pryor, with a body language that backed up his claims about feeling more relaxed, admitted that he may have fallen into the trap of what it means to be the Ohio State quarterback.

“Let’s be real,” Pryor said. “If any of us were the quarterback at Ohio State, and you’ve got all these people around you, you’re sort of like a superstar. And you start maybe thinking too much maybe of yourself and losing your head a little bit and losing focus.”

But Pryor believes he’s moved past that stage now. He said he’s received advice from LeBron James and Miami quarterback Jacory Harris, as well that Ohio State coaches, that made him believe he was playing too tense in the past and trying to do too much.

“I just think I’ve been so tense and maybe handling things the wrong way, maybe not talking to my teammates the way I should instead of being the leader I want to be.”

That came out when he yelled at receiver Duron Carter on the sideline during the Purdue loss following one of his interceptions. Quarterbacks coach Nick Siciliano said he’s seen it so far this week, that Pryor is behaving like a weight has been lifted off of him.

That’s no guarantee that he’ll play better against Minnesota on Saturday. But the Terrelle Pryor that showed up tonight should have a better understanding of what he can and can’t do, on and off the field, than the Terrelle Pryor that the Buckeyes have seen to this point.

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