“As a leader, it showed up at Alabama,” HoustonTexans owner Cal McNair said of newly hired coach DeMeco Ryans (DRyans59). “He was the leader of their defense. The captain of the team, and they called him ‘Coach,’ so this has been in him a long time.'
At Alabama, Ryans earned unanimous All-American recognition, won the SEC Defensive Player of the Year Award and received the Lott IMPACT Trophy as a senior in 2005.
Joe Kines worked as the Crimson Tide’s offensive coordinator for Ryans’ final three college seasons. Ryans credits Kines with kindling the coaching spark inside of him.. “My college coach, coach Joe Kines, he really inspired me. One day he put me on the spot in front of the room and he asked me to make some calls, and I thought I knew what everyone around me was supposed to do, and I didn’t know.
“So if he’s trusting to call on me, he believes that there’s something in me that maybe I could be in the coach’s shoes. And from that inspiration from Joe Kines, it led me to truly knowing what every position around me knowing what they had to do, all their assignments and techniques, so if a guy needed help, I could help him out. And that’s where that inspiration for coaching started.
“And then my mother taught me what hard work, what sacrifice looks like. My mother: We’re going to get it done. No matter how hard it seemed, no matter how far-fetched it may seem, we’re going to get it done. Those principles that I saw her -- whether it’s working three jobs, whether it’s walking to work so I can have a car to drive to school -- that sacrifice that my mother made has just taught me that if you want it, you got to go work.
Over the past three seasons, Houston has posted an 11-38-1 record – four fewer victories than San Francisco had for the 2022 campaign when its season ended in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday.
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