Rob Ryan is back in the NFL with the Washington Redskins. The longtime defensive coach was his brother's defensive coordinator in Buffalo during Rex Ryan's reign with the Bills, but both were fired after the 2016 season.

After getting canned by the Bills, Ryan found it hard to find work. In a recent interview with Jake Kring-Schreifels of the team's official site, Ryan explained what the process was like.

“When you’re out of work that phone stops ringing. It’s a humbling thing, it upsets you, and it’s something you just have to deal with,” Ryan said. “No one cares that you’re fired, no one cares that you have a family to provide for, so you have to do it yourself.”

Ryan explained that after he got sick of sitting around waiting for something to come to him, he started making calls himself. Eventually, the Redskins offered him a job as their inside linebackers coach.

“When you’re out of a job, you need people to step up and help you,” he says. “I’m not a charity case at all, I’m a great coach. But to be out of work that long makes no sense. It made no sense. But it humbles you and you come back with a good attitude.”

The Ryan brothers have always been known for their loud personalities and large egos, so perhaps a little humbling was a good thing. Ryan says he grew restless without football, and that he even spent “a summer working at a naval ship yard.”

He's back in the game now, and will be working with an underrated Redskins defense. Unfortunately for him, his job got a little bit harder when Reuben Foster went down with his torn ACL earlier this offseason.

Foster was supposed to be his leading inside linebacker, and now he'll miss the season. That being said, Ryan is clearly just glad to be back coaching, no matter what personnel he has.