Houston Texans’ DeMeco Ryans on not overreacting to schedule

All 32 NFL teams discovered their 2024 schedule last week and began reviewing and circling the games that will be the most important.

The Houston Texans will have one of the toughest schedules in the NFL this coming season after winning the AFC South and reaching the divisional round of the playoffs in 2023. With a tougher schedule, this usually coincides with the primetime games and the Texans will be in four of them.

Before the schedule was released last Wednesday, Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans sent a subtle message to his team during an appearance on the Rich Eisen Show.

“With our expectations, what I ask of our guys is when the schedule comes out, you can’t consume everything,” Ryans said.

“No matter how you prepare it, no matter what the games are, we can only control one day at a time, one game at a time, so our expectations are really to focus on the process and continue to grow , to develop, to continue to improve every day If our team, it’s true, comes together, becomes a very united team, a connected team, then we really focus on the small details, the fundamentals and the. techniques and we’re getting better every day with expectations that will be exactly what we’re supposed to be doing. Everyone wants to get everything back, but you don’t get there overnight.

The sentiment expressed by Ryans is exactly how his team should view its 2024 schedule. Take each day as it is and prepare for each game as it comes, without looking at the bigger picture. If Ryans can convey this message to his team and get them to adopt the same outlook as him, then the Texans will be in a great position to make the playoffs again.

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