The NFL’s best defense is built like its leader—and like the younger version of himself. GregBishopSI on DeMeco Ryans, Fred Warner, and the new, old-school way the NFL’s best defense was made:
. But Ryans meant much more to a nascent franchise that had existed for four NFL seasons and won only 18 games before drafting him in the second round in 2006.
“If anyone has anything negative to say about Cap, they need to look at themselves in the mirror,” he says. “Everyone loves Cap.” Even then, Riddick and Ryans understood that, throughout the NFL’s history, most dominant defenses had still hunted for those kinds of players. No coach ever turned away from an island corner or a wrecking ball defensive end. But they built their schemes from the middle out, around linebackers.
After the 2011 season, the Texans’ general manager faced an uncomfortable dilemma. “Toughest thing, I had to do in my career,” Rick Smith says. Houston had finished 6–10 but appeared to be ascending. That owed, in part, to a bevy of talented, young defensive players, like pass rusher J.J. Watt, linebacker Brian Cushing, and defensive backs Johnathan Joseph and Kareem Jackson. Beyond Joseph, all were 25 or under—and Joseph, at 27, had made first-team All-Pro.
Anyone who knows Ryans espouses similar sentiments. His life narrative—born in Bessemer, Ala., during the steel boom; guided by his mother, Martha, as she toiled in factories, sometimes working more than one job—became both myth and man. His first love was baseball. He loved God. And he loved, like his mother, who lost her left pinkie finger to a grinder at a factory and went back the next day, outworking everybody else.
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