Video: Kaleb Johnson talks two touchdown performance in Iowa football's win over Illinois State

it's got to feel good talk about that offense especially in the second half man I'm not going to lie like we all came together as a team bro so I like him over there defense you know just us having a maintain throughout the week you know staying focused doing the little things right so us as a team the old line K had a great day old line had a great day everybody have a great day so now we just looking forward on to Iowa State and fix fixing the little things and you know coming together more as a team and you know battling it out so how ready were you at in the second half after you didn't get to go the second I I was amp I was ready to go man I was ready to go but like I said first half cheering my teammates on you know every time they get a little big run or something like that cheering Kamari on Kamari did a great job Sean did a great job like I said K online everybody did a good job so first long man that felt good that felt good it felt real good man so I'm just so glad to be back on the team be back with the team you know helping us win so what happened at halftime what was said that kind of spurred that second half surge on offense it was it was just like us just like you know fixing the mistakes and fixing what we did wrong in the first half and making it 10 times better going even if we mess up going 110% so that's what we did today and I feel like second half you know we did a completely great job so now like I said we go back and we look at what we did wrong and you know keep moving forward the defensive guys are in here smiling because they pitched a shout out and they're not even the story of the game it's the offense how nice is it to to be the top for great hey Jay over there he talking so you know he over talking so it feels great just to know like we put 40 points on the board and it wasn't just them so I'm just so happy to be part of this team and you know happy to be back a lot of different people too talk about the tight ends the wide receivers it seemed like it was a full team effort especially second it was yes it was it was all the team effort like I said everybody did everything right everybody like I said everybody did everything right but like I said first half you know had a little hook hiccups and all that but second half came back you know you did 11% the win how hard was that for you in the first half to have to sit that one out and just kind of watch watch all F in front of you I was hurt because you know I love football so much so it was just for me just not to be out there and you know playing it just like it hurt to me so you know just cheer my teammates on and you know you know just waiting till the second half so can you describe maybe what Tim Lester has done behind the scenes leading up to today in the preseason that feel like kind of help you allow to have a performance like this as a as a unit um you know just a little things you know just our aiming points where we need to be at the running backs where we need to be at you know o line where they need to be at who they need to guard and all that so I just feel like he just know everything every little thing that we need to do like I said we got to go back and you know fix up some things that we did in the first half so the first half it seemed like everybody was it was one play One Missed assignment here one one screw up here and and it really held you guys back in the second half it seemed like those plays came together and there was a confidence that you guys played with how can you describe how that felt to know you went out there and everybody was kind of like all right we're rolling now um I felt really good because like I said like we came back in here and you know everybody know what they was doing wrong we you know we had little Tabit and everybody went back and see what they was doing wrong and you know came back second half everybody calmed down and chill so came back like I said came back second half% on everything we did with the win so was there anything today that felt different having Seth Wallace instead of Kirk fence anything about game day that was different or felt different to you no no it wasn't nothing nothing was different with him so you know we it's us and the staff so it's really us out there going to play so you know he you know coach Wallace man he he's he's a good he's a good guy I love coach Wallace even though even though you know we have a little bit beef because he's on the defensive side and you know he over there but still like I love that man he's cool so I can't wait for C fans to come back and we all be together as a staff as a team again so it's great seems a little more maybe boisterous joyful than we've seen you in a while post game tell me how how are you feeling I mean two touchdowns your your performance obviously was um I feel great man I'm just you know I'm no it just be over the years just like you know just getting use not being nervous in front of you guys so you know just just coming in you know talking to you guys like normal people and you know just telling you guys what's what it is what happen so going on so okay we're kind of normal we're kind of normal just normal laugh talking so it's good man you know I just can't wait for Iowa State get back you know into the you know lessons and learn what we did wrong and get back on the practice field you know get ready to fire State I know I know it's still early but what do you feel like the like the offense is capable of this season oh we we capable so much man this this just the first game so I just I just can't wait for us to develop more we're developing more and more more and more so like I said I just can't wait for us to just to see what we do in the future so walk me through kind of what you sign you to those two touchdowns say it again um walk me through what you saw on each of those two touchdown green grass green grass I mean like the little long run I saw a little bit of people but I just ran through you know like I said this year like I told you guys in the offseason like my focus was physicality you know breaking tackles Yak yards at the contact so just me just doing that and me improving on that is a really big help for me so I feel like that's that's my improved game so so