For Dom Capers, coaching two expansion teams was part of the "challenge"

HOUSTON — When Dom Capers walked up the stairs and across the bridge over the highway to the practice fields outside NRG Stadium before a Panthers-Texans joint practice on Thursday, it felt familiar to him.

Not just because he used to coach the Houston Texans, or because he was walking with Texans linebackers coach Bill Davis, who was known as Billy 30 years ago when he was Capers' outside linebackers coach in Carolina in 1995.

All of this was familiar because it was by design, and that's how Capers ended up in Houston in the first place.

"You know, I've always liked a challenge," Capers said.

The 75-year-old senior defensive assistant laughs when he thinks about it now, because not too many coaches would sign up to coach expansion teams twice. And he's also the only coach to ever do i