Texans coach DeMeco Ryans has strong opinions about fighting during joint practices

The Houston Texans and Los Angeles Rams will wrap up their preseason schedule this Saturday at 12:00pm CT.

The Texans will then have a couple of weeks to prepare for their opener against the Colts on 9/8.

DeMeco Ryans spoke about what he hopes to accomplish in the joint practices with the Rams this week.

“We’re excited to have the Rams come in and work with us. It will be a lot of situational football talking with Coach [Sean] McVay,” said Ryans.

“We just want to work situations that probably normally wouldn’t come up, or things that we can’t manufacture ourselves and just get good clean work amongst two really good teams. I’m excited, our guys are excited to work with the Rams. I have a ton of respect for coach McVay and what he’s done throughout his career. He’s always had his team ready to go and I’m just excited for our guys just to get a chance to get some different looks offensively and defensively, so we can strain ourselves mentally.”

On his philosophy with it being a joint practice

DeMeco said “The main idea behind joint practice is you get a chance to play physical football. You thug guys up and we’re still not going to the ground. Both teams treat each other like teammates like we would normally practice. No cheap shots or anything like that, but it’s about getting good quality work in. One of things I don’t like is guys coming out trying to make it a shoving match, that’s what it’s not about. It’s about getting in good work with different schemes. That’s what it’s all about and we’ll get that work tomorrow.”

It will be a big game for many players on the roster bubble. The deadline for teams to reduce rosters to 53 players is August 27th.