The 49ers' defense has a quiet confidence to them, and it starts at the top. Defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans doesn’t need to effuse praise on his players as they see the product that’s on the field.
Here’s Ryans on the lack of ego in the locker room:
“Yeah, it starts with the people that you bring in and it’s also about the guys geling together with the leaders that we already have here. When you have [DL Nick] Bosa, [DL] Arik [Armstead], [LB] Fred [Warner], guys who are not big ego guys, guys who are team first guys, it’s just the culture that [head coach] Kyle [Shanahan] and [general manager] John [Lynch] have created here in our locker room.