Some more snippets from his media appearance from ON3:
“Me coming in playing a lot of football, as a quarterback you have to win over the guys in the locker room,” “It all comes to you being a team player … at the end of the day it’s been everything I expected when I came here. The culture is perfect for what coach (Mario) Cristobal has been doing, and I’m just happy to be here.”
“That was one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make, from thinking I was ready for the NFL Draft to knowing I’m still not done yet in college,” “There’s still food left on the table for myself, for this team. The guys that we return from last season, the majority of the O line, get the whole receiving corps back, keep pieces of the defense. Now it’s just plug and play. Add a playmaker like myself in the backfield along with good running backs like Fletch (Mark Fletcher), CJ (Chris Johnson), Ajay (Allen) when he gets back – at the end of the day I feel like this is the right program not only for myself but guys that are here right now, who are going to end up coming here. We are trying to build off what we did last year. At the end of the day Miami, we have to get back up there. And it starts one game at a time, one practice at a time.”
“What you’ll see from me, the team – a whole team that plays hard,” “Everybody is ready to play together for sure."
“I’m someone who plays with an edge, I wasn’t given anything, had to earn my way to playing for a Power 5 school,” “I never lose that, carry with me every day.”
On his relationship with Shannon Dawson: He says he feels he meshes perfectly with Shannon Dawson’s hybrid Air-Raid system.
“I describe it as an Air-Raid just in the huddle – it’s a lot of concepts I’ve been running since I started college,” . “The thing about coach Dawson is he allows me to be myself in the pocket, outside. He lets me coach up the receivers on what I see. Big hat’s off to him."
“Ball security – that is something I’ve been putting emphasis on since I got here,” “I know it’s on me to protect the ball, that’s something I have to get better at. I’ve been working on it since I got here, am looking to improve on it this year.”
“If we play fast, we play hard, there are going to be a lot of teams in the country that are not going to have answers for us"
Ward says the Miami secondary has challenged him all spring.
He said nickel Mishael Powell “is starting to be that leader on defense, which they need. … He’s a good add for this team, is going to make plays for us.” Ward said Powell and Xavier Restrepo “go back and forth” winning reps in team drills.
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