‘”Sometimes, you have to get yourself into an uncomfortable position to find out what you’re made of,” Beane said. “The easy, comfortable thing to do was to stay in Carolina. I had a pretty good path to the GM seat there and felt confident that it was going to happen in time. Does that weigh on you? Yes. But part of it is, I grew up in that building and some people are always going to view you as the guy when you walked in. And we had been to a Super Bowl. If I’m taking over a team that had recently been to a Super Bowl, does that show that I can build something and be a part of something from the ground up? That’s what so exciting about this opportunity and made me say, ‘I want to I want to see if I can do it.”