BScott on Pryce: “He’s got more juice than OJ.” (Tropicana, that is.)

As soon as Bart Scott got word of Trevor Pryce’s release Wednesday, only one thought popped into his head.

“I knew they were playing a dangerous game,” the Jets linebacker said.

The Baltimore Ravens released Pryce with the hopes of bringing back the veteran, now in his 14th season, on Monday. That, however, won’t be happening, now that the Jets have signed him.

The Jets, coach Rex Ryan said, saw it as “an opportunity, a window,” they couldn't pass up.

The defensive end is one of the top active sack leaders in the game, along with Jason Taylor. And Ryan believes Pryce's size (6-5, 290 pounds), plus his quick hands and feet make him an unstoppable force on a Jets defensive line ravaged by injury.

“He’s a pass-rushing specialist,” said Scott, Pryce’s teammate from 2006-06. “He’s got this one move slap-hand where he gets penetration. And even if he didn’t get the sack, the pressure he creates for other people to get the sack because it forces the quarterback off his spot. He’s 35, but you can tell he’s built like a basketball player. He’s not one of these 35-year-old, “I’m-a-space-eater” type of guys.”

Ryan, who called Pryce “a finisher, similar to Taylor, but on the inside,” said he defensive end will be active against Buffalo Sunday.

“You guys will see what I’m talking about this week,” the coach said with a smile.

Said Scott: “It’s a great move for us because you put him and Shaun (Ellis) in the inside – and that’s two interior pass-rushing guys. Now that forces the edges to be shortened, and now you’ve got Calvin (Pace) and Jason Taylor, BT (Bryan Thomas) coming off the edges and we can do a lot with just a four-man rush. Because you can’t block him (Pryce) one-on-one. All you have to do is look at the Ravens game and watch how he was getting back there and moving (Mark) Sanchez off his spot.”

In 2006, Scott went to the Pro Bowl as a Baltimore Raven with former teammates Adalius Thomas and Terrell Suggs.

“That year, we almost had four or five guys with over 10 sacks a piece,” said Scott.

He and Suggs had 9.5, Thomas had 12…and Trevor Pryce? 13.

Granted, that was four years ago. But Scott says, Pryce – a four-time Pro Bowl selection and two-time Super Bowl champ -- still has all the right moves. As for how much “juice” Pryce has left, the Jets linebacker said: “He’s got more juice that OJ.”

(No, not that O.J.)

“More juice than Tropicana. I wasn’t talking about Orenthal!”