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Friday morning, Miami Hurricanes starting QB Brad Kaaya joined the Joe Rose Show to talk about the team, how spring has been going, and a bit more. The full tweetcap begins now:
JUST got my feed up in time. Live tweeting Kaaya on the Joe Rose Show starting now
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Kaaya: "It's awesome. To have the former players back, just seeing them around campus....there's been a lot of them at practice recently"
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Kaaya: "It's really motivational for us"
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Kaaya: "It's great (working with CMR). The guy's awesome. He's legit."
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Kaaya: "He's real attentive to detail, detail oriented."
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Kaaya "The way we ball fake, our ball handling is a little bit different"
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Kaaya "I've taken over 1000 reps in a different offense, so I have to train myself to do things a bit differently"
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Kaaya, asked about correcting CMR's play call "Yeah, that's true. It might have happened a couple of times." Says it's happened before, too
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Kaaya "It's happened to me a couple of times in the last couple of years." Says mainly formation stuff, flipping power of formation, etc
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Kaaya "No, the WRs aren't slow. What I think Coach is saying is we need more depth like that. More speed"
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Kaaya "If you have Stacy or Brax running 30+ posts in a practice, that 4.3 turns into a 4.4 when you're running 1000+ yards a practice"
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Kaaya asked about TEs "Yeah, it's great. A lot of versatile guys. A lot of different stuff we're doing to use those guys moving forward"
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Kaaya talking about the multiplicity of what TEs can do. Laughs during answer. I think he knows something we don't know. That's cool
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Kaaya says Stacy Coley is good and should be out there for the Spring Game tomorrow
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Kaaya "no sense in pushing anybody. It's just a spring game, not a regular season game or the ACC championship"
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Kaaya talking about how guys have developed physically.
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Kaaya now talking RBs. "
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Kaaya "We have a lot of guys back (at RB). CMR isn't afraid to use 3 or 4 backs"
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Kaaya talking about how a deep and versatile running game can help an offense.
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Kaaya "(a strong running game) will open up the passing game, open up more passing windows"
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Kaaya asked if #Canes will be better than last year "It's unfair to compare 2 different teams together". Says focus is solely on this year.
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Kaaya "there's some things our team needs to work on to be great" Says everyone still has to work hard to improve
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Kaaya "there's some things our team needs to work on to be great" Says everyone still has to work hard to improve
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Kaaya "we haven't proven anything as a team. For us, it's about working hard at the end of the day"
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Asked what he wants to personally improve, Kaaya says RZ efficiency, pocket awareness are top items for him.
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Kaaya now being asked about the defense, spec. the pass rush "yeah, there's been days when they've really been getting after it"
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Kaaya "The scheme will allow them to really get after the QB"
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Kaaya says defensive havoc will create more TOs, put pressure on opposition, make other areas of D better
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Kaaya says he's talked to many former QBs, but main one he speaks with is Gino Torretta.
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Kaaya also mentions Steve Walsh, Ryan Williams, Stephen Morris, and Jake Heaps as guys with whom he speaks
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And that ends Brad Kaaya's appearance on the Joe Rose Show.
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Tweetcap up in a bit.
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Have a great day, #Canes
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So, that's that. Like Brad's comments? Hate them? Leave a comment below and discuss.
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