"You want it to happen a lot quicker, but you have to understand the process in place," an AFC executive said of the conference's stable of young, rebuilding teams. "You want to look back in four or five years and say, 'You know what -- we did some good things, we did some bad things, but we like the direction it's going in.' Or, in five years you say, 'We missed on this guy, we missed on that guy.' ... You have to let your guys develop. So often, a rookie is pigeonholed with what he did his [first] year. ... But you have to let these guys develop at their own pace, and when you do it collectively as a young team, you're going to go through some adversity."