‘It's a blessing to have this work out'

Here are some highlights from head coach Sean McDermott’s recent press conferences.

Q: Could you have envisioned when you got to Carolina that you and Brandon Beane, I’m not sure what your first impressions were of Brandon when you met him, but could you envision that now you two are potentially tied together and hopefully tied together for a long time here? Could you have envisioned that back at that point?

SM: I think back about that, and who would’ve known back then that when I would walk by Brandon’s office ... Brandon’s office was on the way for me to go in and out of the building or out to practice. And so myself, like many of the other coaches, would walk by Brandon’s office, and he always had an inviting, open-door type of atmosphere around his office. We had had some conversations but I also, just being genuine about it, it wasn’t like, oh, if we ever get ... because sometimes conversations happen, if I ever get a job, I’m going to bring you with me. We never really had those conversations and I don’t really think those conversations are healthy anyway. But it was always, I thought he had a good way about him and a good feel for not only where we were as a team and what we needed to do going forward. So it’s pretty cool and really a blessing from God to have this work out the way it’s worked out.

Q: You and he have mentioned the discussions you two have and he has said that you two don’t always agree. As you have gone through this together now for four years, how important is it that you don’t always agree?