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Quick hits from Bill Belichick’s 30-minute draft-ending press conference:
Belichick was asked about his defensive coaching staff, which following Eric Mangini’s departure had Dean Pees as coordinator, Joel Collier as assistant secondary coach and Pepper Johnson as defensive line coach. That’s a light coaching staff compared to other NFL teams, and the Patriots have bolstered that side of the ball by moving assistant offensive line coach Matt Patricia to linebackers coach.
So the defensive staff now looks like this:
Dean Pees –- coordinator
Pepper Johnson –- defensive line
Matt Patricia –- linebackers
Joel Collier –- defensive backs
The 31-year-old Patricia enters his third NFL coaching season in 2006, all with the Patriots. A former standout offensive lineman at RPI, Patricia's coaching career began with six years in the college ranks (RPI as a graduate assistant, Amherst College as defensive line coach, Syracuse as an offensive graduate assistant). Patricia joined the Patriots in 2004 and spent his first season as an offensive coaching assistant and last year as assistant offensive line coach.
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Just listened to the press conference. It sounded like Mike Reiss asked the question so he must have had some clue that Matt had been moved to linebackers but BB gave his standard non answer. Was that info released later?
I like his development track; O-line, D-line, O assistant, well rounded in the trenches.
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Mike Patricia moved to linebackers coach
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