“I think in terms of personal, we got to know each other pretty well pretty quick,” Ryan said on Wednesday. “I think until you’ve gone through a season with people and you understand what works well for me and what works well for him, all of those kinds of things, until you’ve gone through it together and had your on-field stuff, you’re good stuff, you’re bad stuff. ..that was part of last year.

“We did some good things. Some really good things. We had some success and then we had some things go not so well. I think in both of those situations you learn a lot about each other and you learn what’s best for us to have a winning, working relationship.”