Texans’ DeMeco Ryans gives honest take on rise of primetime games

The Houston Texans are expected to be one of the best teams in football this coming season, and head coach DeMeco Ryans is prepared for a tough road ahead.

Given all of the hype surrounding the Texans heading into 2024, Houston is expected to have a lot of primetime games. Considering the team has a rising young star at quarterback in C.J. Stroud and just added Stefon Diggs to what was an already impressive receiving corps, it’s not hard to understand why.

But Ryans isn’t sweating all of the incoming national attention, he told reporters on Friday, h/t Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk.

“When the schedule is released — whatever it is — we’re excited to go play ball,” Ryans said. “I don’t care where it is, when it is, our team will be ready to go.”

Ryans added that the Texans won’t be any more excited about a night game than they will be about a matchup at 1:00 p.m. ET on a typical Sunday.

“We’re excited about every game. There’s not one game that I look at more so than the other,” he said. “Every game is important, we’re trying to stack more in the win column. That’s what it’s all about for me. Schedule release is a part of it.”

“There’s a lot of hoopla and speculation about who’s playing where, primetime [games]. For me, when the ball is kicked off, we don’t care how many cameras are on us, we don’t care what network has the game. We’re trying to be the best football team on the field that day,” Ryans continued. “All the outside stuff, it really doesn’t matter to us. It’s just noise. Noise for other people to talk about. But for us and how we approach it, it’s about being the best football team on the field.”

It’s true. Whether it’s a Monday night game or just a run-of-the-mill, ordinary clash on a Sunday afternoon, it counts for the same in the standings.

We’ll get to see just how many primetime games the Texans have once the NFL schedule is officially released.

Texans are considered Super Bowl contenders by some