Tennessee football's Nico Iamaleava, Bru McCoy, Dont'e Thornton react to win over Chattanooga

kind of assess you know your first start here at nean and then uh you know what it like to connect with Brew of the game yeah it felt great man just going out there competing with my guys um you know we put a lot of work into this for this year so you know it felt good to go out there and just play what we've been working on now go ahead uh Dante just obviously coming off that injury was working for you so well there today just how of the feeli to be able to play how much more comfortable you feel outside I say it felt great really I feel like I needed to have like would have been my first game back I the game iect that they have so I felt very good go B then Adam for brew and could both you speak on what you've seen from Dante from last season going to this season kind of the offse together just um a ton of Relentless hard work you know just grinding working hard every single day you know Finding ways just to improve himself like I mean it's been awesome to see it's driven me and pushing me to be better yeah man you can just see how comfortable uh how much more comfortable Dante got with this man you know just his first year going into last year still figuring things out you know I feel like he was dialed in this whole fall Camp spring camp and yeah man he's been great great work that he's put in and went out Adam and then Brent Nico uh your numbers were great obviously can you tell us something that you didn't do really well something that you think you you'd like to have back or want to work on yeah I thought I didn't finish the second quarter well um I can finish better with you know just operating the offense at a high level um and uh really I think that was the main thing for me was not falling asleep you know while we're up big and still going out there and operating offens can you just kind of walk through the day kind felt like this morning you been waiting on some first first couple catches I know it was old hat once you got but what the day feel like for you yeah I mean it it was a little bit surreal just Rego through everything and um you know but but I really enjoyed it I soaked it in and um you know once getting back out the then you get you get get sweat going and you know you feel back at home well Cari and Patrick then back to off did you know that you said that Tennessee pram record for passing yards and a half and if so what was your reaction yeah no I didn't know um couple of my teammates were telling me and then the the little interview I had at the end of the game was was really when I found out and yeah man it's cool moment I I didn't even know about it but felt good to go out there and I my team you uh it was the big Play Down this way on the post you had to go up a little bit to catch and after you caught it you were pretty demonstrative of your celebration was that a feeling of that moment of that play or was it just sort of culmination of everything that made you yeah a little bit of that and also um you know since this is my first game since I lost my grandfather and he he was actually I made a very similar catch to the last game we got to see me play so that came to mind it jaed me up Dante good Tyle talked about you know how much comfortable you felt once they moved you back outside last year um what is it about playing out there that makes you more confident as a player I say my whole football career I played at outside receiver so I feel like with me going back there last year I started to easily adjust to the offense and then with me having a full off season I felt like that helped me even more it made me more confident everything we go David and then Vance then back to B guys this can be for any of yall but this was a 38 to nothing game 20 minutes in what can y'all learn from a game like this and did yall feel stressed anytime or any adverse situations that you had to push through what what do you kind of learn from a game like this all of us oh yeah um shoot to to keep our foot on their throat um when when we go up big I think still coming to the sideline with the same mindset that is z um and you know just carrying that out the full game full four quarters like coach up six ni you guys ran for 300 yard Samson 124 he looked sharp tell me about what you saw specifically including what you've seen in Camp going yeah man it felt great seeing s out there um you know he was limited in Fall camp in spring so um just seeing him out there and you know doing his thing it felt good man we didn't really get to see too much of it during Camp so yeah man um Sam's always been decent and uh you know you got to see what he does when he gets the ball in the S we'll go Ben West and we finish up with what was your mindset going into the offseason and is there one particular thing that maybe you can point to that that's allowed you to feel more comfortable in this I see my mindset going through the offse with the uh like instead of letting the game like get to me so much just like had fun with it and really like I know like at a young age my reason playing football was for me have fun so it was for me to have fun so like knowing that now I got the college a lot a lot more aspects into it that can make the game stressful I had to like bring myself back to the old that you thinking like and end day just football so have fun so I say that the main thing I worked on all season was like my mindset and like game BR was there a point during the kind of the bounce back progress and come back from everything where you felt like you you were moving like yourself again you were able to kind of make all the cuts and do everything and everything would be good with the leg Yeah Yeah it it probably happened um you know somewhere around April May um but yeah once that happens you just you start feeling more confident and then uh you kind of see the light at the end of the tunnel couple more Adam awesome brw um a lot of guys don't come back as strongly as as you have from an injury like this you mentioned your grandfather how would your grandfather have reacted to the way you've come back um man he I can't think anybody that ever been more proud actually when I was flown flown home to see him in the hospital um I took my boot off and took my first steps out of my boot and he got out of his uh hospital bed so that was like a cool moment that we had together but you I give a lot of my uh credit to my success to him because of you know kind of how he instilled a lot of values in in sports and just how to be a man so I I miss him a lot was he was he a strong minded guy yeah he was and he's he's he's a great he's a hexan athlete he was a Hall of Famer at his at his college pepper so yeah I try to take after him the best I can bro you made that number switch back to your old number um this year since you're coming back easy kind of do kind of kind of a new cleanse to you know kind of restart everything by going back to the old yeah some a little bit of that too and also like anybody that knows me knows I grew up like love Reggie Bush and five's always been my number um I kind of wanted to let it breathe after H Mor because the type of player he was and how what everything he accomplished so after a year I was like I want to go out my last year and we my favorite number thanks guys appreciate we group two here