“Then you have to have a general manager that shares the same philosophy you do. My main philosophy is we have to make sure we can find a franchise quarterback and we can protect him and put playmakers around him. We’re going to play great, physical, attacking, downhill defense and we’re going to be sound and fundamentally solid on special teams. You have to share that and then you have to look at the team and say, ‘OK, what kind of core is there?’ Is it an old core of guys or a young core of guys? You have to make sure the owner is willing to be patient. If the owner here in Charlotte wasn’t patient and got rid of me after my second year, I don’t have Year 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. We had a stretch of five seasons that was pretty good with the exception of my fifth year because of the injuries. That five-year stretch was pretty doggone good.”