{"id":410308,"date":"2026-08-19T00:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410308\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T00:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:30:19","slug":"raiders-klint-kubiak-texans-demeco-ryans-reunite-at-joint-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410308\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders&#8217; Klint Kubiak, Texans&#8217; DeMeco Ryans reunite at joint practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head coaches in the NFL make up a sort of 32-man fraternity, so it&#8217;s never unusual to see opposing coaches chatting on the field before games and especially during joint practices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/texans\/article\/demeco-ryans-afc-playoffs-patriots-21297466.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">DeMeco Ryans<\/a> has known <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/texans\/article\/klint-kubiak-las-vegas-raiders-seahawks-super-bowl-21342477.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Klint Kubiak<\/a> for 20 years from the days when Klint was\u00a0following around his dad Gary Kubiak, who became the Texans&#8217;\u00a0second head coach in franchise history the same year Ryans was drafted by the team.<\/p>\n<p>That made the coordination of Tuesday&#8217;s practice easy, especially with Gary Kubiak, who\u00a0starred at St. Pius X High School and Texas A&amp;M,\u00a0back in town keeping an eye on both son and pupil from the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was real easy working with Klint,&#8221; Ryans told reporters after practice. &#8220;I&#8217;ve known Klint since he was a teenager when he was out here with his dad at practices. Known him for a long time. What I love about Klint is, he\u2019s just a really cool, calm, quiet spirit. A guy who loves the Lord. He&#8217;s a great family guy. So, it&#8217;s really cool talking to him, catching up. It was easy to schedule practice. Very like-minded in our approach to the game. I really appreciate him and the Raiders organization for the way we handled practice today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Klint was born in Houston when his dad was a backup quarterback with the Denver Broncos. However, he\u00a0grew up in Aurora, Colo., while Gary worked as an assistant with the Broncos and by the time his father got the Texans&#8217; head coaching job in 2006, Klint already was playing college football at Colorado State.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Klint often was a visitor at Texans&#8217; offseason practices in those days and came around even more often after he was done with college and got his first job as an offensive quality control coach at Texas A&amp;M from 2010-12.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just such a blessing to get to coach in the NFL,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BTuUQZdhCpc\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Klint Kubiak said after Tuesday&#8217;s practice<\/a>. &#8220;To come back here where my dad coached and where I saw so many practices, it was a really cool feeling, but very quickly erased all those feelings and just got right to practice. I&#8217;ll think of the warm and fuzzy stuff later.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coaches in the NFL make up a sort of 32-man fraternity, so it&#8217;s never unusual to see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-410308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}