What about the progress being made, especially the connection with you and Cam (Ward)?
I think just the work we put in and just the competitive abilities to keep going. Obviously, we fell short, but I'm proud of the guys for continuing to fight all the way through.
Can you walk us through the 90-yard punt return, just how it kind of played out in your eyes?
Yeah, I mean punter got all of it. Kind of sent me back. He's a really good punter. He hides his direction really well. I saw that Wo (Samuel Womack III) had a great initial jam on him. I knew I was going to have space, and made a guy miss, and then I just saw the edge. And as soon as I seen the boys, I knew we were going to score. They did a great job on the kicker too, sealing off the edge.
Your teammates say you should be a Pro Bowler without a doubt. When you hear that, how does that make you feel?
It feels great. Those guys battle for me. They make me go. Without those guys fighting, we watch the all-22 on all those big plays, and I'm making people miss but they're also making huge blocks and springing it. So, I'm super thankful for them and thankful for Coach Bones (John Fassel) and just this whole team.
Coach McCoy was just talking about the boost that gave the team. Did you feel that yourself?
Yeah, I mean I think that we kind of fed off that. That's something that we got to continue to do. When somebody makes a big play, just take the momentum and keep building. That definitely felt good that to kind of help flip it.
Chim, what's the key to being a successful punt returner? What have you been able to find that works so well?
Yeah, I mean I think tracking it first, right? Making sure you have good security. I mean I returned one on the ground today, got to be better in that aspect, right? That's the accountability stuff. But tracking it and then having the vision and the speed obviously. But also, just amazing teammates, like I said. Without those guys, like they say I'm a pro bowl returner, they're a pro bowl return unit.
You feel like the offense is making progress?
Yeah, I mean I think that we show signs but that's just a consistency level that we need to reach, right? Be able to continue throughout. You have times like in the fourth quarter moving the ball, times in the first half where we're having success but kind of shooting ourselves in the foot and just clean up those details and keep getting better.
