SERBY’S S U NDAY Q& A WIT H ...

The Post’s Steve Serby chats with new Jets receiver Terrelle Pryor on his approach to the game, playing for many different teams, and why he hasn’t made a bigger impact in the NFL:

Q: Do you consider yourself uncoverable one-on-one? A: I can be. I can be. I have a lot of work to do. All last year I had that injury with my ankle. It’s kind of a setback to me. But I feel very good right now, and I just need to get back squaring up with a guy and beating a guy and shading him and staying tight to him. So when I get back to that, I can be. And I will be. Q: What is your on-field mentality? A: I’m chill, pretty relaxed. I just do my job until I get pissed off, and then I’m gong to do whatever I can to make a fool out of you. Q: What pisses you off on the field? A: Some guy starts talking, calling you silly stuff even though people don’t mean it, but they just do it just because that’s what they know. That’s how they talk stuff, that’s how they try to get under your skin. Well it doesn’t get under my skin. It makes me mad — not mad where I lose sight on my goals and what we’re trying to accomplish as a team, but it makes me mad where I want to do something and embarrass you. Q: Who’s the best trash talker? A: I don’t know. I don’t think I met him yet. It doesn’t get to me. It just makes me mad. It just makes me play more physical, you know? Q: You haven’t had the kind of NFL career that you envisioned. A: I don’t think so. Not yet. But I could change it right now. But not yet. Q: Why do you think that is?’ A: I mean, seven years so far. ... It feels like I’m changing teams every year. I want to have somewhere that’s a home where somebody appreciates me. Obviously I’m not doing something right. When I was with the Browns, they wanted me to sign, and obviously business is business. I want to be somewhere where I want to retire after five, six years. Hopefully I could do that here. I love this place. I love this city. I love this organization. The people here are spectacular. Q: You had a difficult upbringing? A: Living motel to motel room late at night, trying to see which one’s open, stuff like that. Sometimes picking the locks. Q: Did your father work? A: He had CMP (Chronic Myofascial Pain). Q: How old were you at the time? A: Five, six. Q: Sports was your way out? A: I had good people in my corner. I just lucked out. I just feel like anybody can make it if you have great talent and you have smarts, you have to be willing to listen is a key because there’s so many hardheaded knuckleheads out there. I thank God that he gave me the patience and understanding to be able to listen. I chose to work hard and continue to work and try to make a name for myself. There’s guys that are just as talented as me that we’d probably be talking about, but they just chose a different path. Q: What do you think about Zach Brown’s comments about you catching a forearm if you try to make a onehanded catch in the scrimmage with the Redskins? A: It’s just football, man. Q: Do you want to prove something to them? A: Nah. It’s just football. It didn’t work out. I got injured, they know that. It is what it is. I think they’re all great players, and I’m excited to go up there (Richmond) with my head coach (Todd Bowles), who I think’s a darn good head coach. ... We got a great offensive coordinator (Jeremy Bates), a great defense, and I’m excited to get up there with my guys and get better, and that’s what I think we’re going to be up there doing. Q: What drives you? A: My son drives me for sure. My mom — I want to get to the point where she doesn’t have to work. She has a lot of back problems, a lot of body part problems. And I think just watching my teammates sweating and bust their butts on the field every day in practice. I think that’s what really drives me. And also the coaches, because they’re in it with us. It is a business, but they’re counting on (me). ... They picked me for a reason, so they’re counting on me to do something for them. Q: What was it like being you in high school? You were The Next Big Thing, a quarterback who drew comparisons to Vince Young, and an all-state basketballer. A: You got like coaches trying to recruit me, bringing helicopters, trying to fly on top of buildings. Q: You probably thought you could do whatever you wanted to on a basketball court and on a football field, right? A: Ah, yeah. I believed I could dunk on anybody, and I believed I could do anything I wanted on the football field. And I still do think that. Q: Do you miss playing quarterback? A: Sometimes I do. Sometimes if you get that little thread and throw it, and it feels like a little perfect spiral, and then the next throw I see why I’m not playing. Q: What has been your best NFL moment? A: There’s three — being in the Hall of Fame for two different things, that 93-yard run (on a QB read-option with the Raiders). I still got the record, the most yardage runningreceiving-throwing versus Miami in 2016. ... I think this year, just being with the Jets, being with a great organization like this, it motivates me to keep going forward. Q: LeBron James? A: He was my mentor in college, and I spoke to him for about three years, he would send me inspirational messages and texts back and forth, so that was a pretty cool time learning a little bit about him and how he kind of guided me. Q: How did he become your mentor? A: One day he walked in the facility and we exchanged numbers. Q: How often would he give you messages? A: Practically three times a week. The unique thing ababout LeBron is I texted him one time, and he didn’t get back to me for like two days, and he texted me, “I apologize. I was in China. Sorry I missed your text.” Q: Regrets? A: Last year getting injured. Q: What about Tattoogate (Pryor was suspended by the NCAA for selling Ohio State memorabilia and receiving improper benefits from a tattoo parlor owner). A: That thing was fugazy. People just don’t know what they’re talking about. Q: But it affected you? A: Yeah. I think you could say that. You could use your imagination on that one. For people to think that I would ruin the university. ... From that to being suspended coming into the NFL, knowing that I was being suspended (five games) and still got drafted in the third round. What may have happened if I actually went to the draft. I don’t like really living in the past. I can live right now and say that I’m going to be a Jet and a damn good one. Q: Life after football? A: Hopefully, I’m a stay-at-home dad. Q: Your son Terrelle Pryor II is 4. Describe his personality. A: Wild and wiry. He’s always smiling. And the most handsome smile. Kind of like me (chuckle). Q: Are you primed for a career year? A: To be determined. We’ll have to wait and see. Q: Do you think you have it in you? A: Oh absolutely. But we’ll see.