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Editor’s Note: This article contains an update regarding the Patriots’ scoring totals in 2022 and 2023, which have been corrected.<\/em><\/p>\n

Former New England Patriots<\/strong><\/a> defensive coordinator Matt Patricia certainly wore a fair number of hats during his time in Foxboro under Bill Belichick, but it sounds like his duties even went a little further than people might have thought.<\/p>\n

Many likely remember the debacle in 2022 after Josh McDaniels left for Las Vegas after being hired as the head coach of the Raiders.\u00a0 That saw Belichick put Patricia in charge of the offense, with the former coach being the one to step into McDaniels’ role that offseason.<\/p>\n

But as the Patriots saw coaches depart, they had also experienced a loss in the personnel department two seasons prior, when Nick Caserio left to become the general manager in Houston after seemingly being denied that title here in New England following the 2020 season.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, the person who apparently ended up filling in for him wasn’t quite who you’d expect.<\/p>\n

According to former staffer Joe Kim, Patricia ultimately assisted Belichick in the selection of two pretty important players.<\/p>\n

The Boston Herald’s Doug Kyed spoke to Kim recently, with the former Patriots Director of Skill Development having joined Patricia at Ohio State following a stint in Illinois last season.\u00a0 He revealed that Patricia spent the 2021 offseason picking up a lot of the slack that Caserio left behind, also saying that Patricia was the person behind the selections of both running back Rhamondre Stevenson and defensive tackle Christian Barmore.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s the thing that people don\u2019t realize is there\u2019s nobody in the history of football that\u2019s done what that man has done,\u201d Kim told Kyed<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cAnd let me tell you, he has been a Super Bowl-winning defensive coordinator, he\u2019s been an NFL head coach. Oh, by the way, he\u2019s been an NFL offensive coordinator, and he\u2019s been an NFL GM. Nobody\u2019s done that. Obviously, people will say he didn\u2019t have success in Detroit, OK, wasn\u2019t a great offensive coordinator, he filled in for (Nick) Caserio when Caserio left, but he did all four things. I mean, who could do that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Patricia certainly took a lot of heat here following the 2022 season, given the Patriots’ offensive struggles that year.\u00a0 They followed that up with an anemic output under Bill O’Brien in 2023, scoring just 236 points all season, the lowest of Belichick’s tenure going back to 2000<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former quarterback Mac Jones, who had a strong rookie campaign, took a giant step backward and was never the same player he was during his impressive 2021 season. Those back-to-back seasons where things fell apart ultimately led to owner Robert Kraft parting ways with Belichick, with Patricia having departed after that 2022 season and spending the 2023 campaign as a senior defensive assistant in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

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Tough Ending For Patricia<\/strong><\/h3>\n

For a coach who had been a terrific coordinator during his tenure in New England, that 2022 campaign is definitely one that takes away from his other accomplishments on the other side of the football.<\/p>\n

The biggest black mark against Patricia after that 2022 campaign sounds like it was less about his football knowledge when it came to the offense, but more about the execution in the implementation.<\/p>\n

One giant thing that stood out was the fact that when players questioned things, Patricia was apparently dismissive, which went against how prepared McDaniels was when it came to dealing with various situations that came up during games.\u00a0 It came out later that one of the biggest issues was that players were said to have asked “What if…?” style questions, and were reportedly rebuffed.<\/p>\n

That led to situations where they would later have to adjust, which was one of the big reasons behind their issues for much of that 2022 campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the end, they were just making 1,000 adjustments instead of building them in at the beginning,\u201d one player told the Herald’s Andrew Callahan and Karen Guregian after that season<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

To add to that was the fact that other players behind the scenes quietly voiced frustration with being taught concepts from someone who lacked the experience to properly teach them.<\/p>\n

NBC Sports Boston’s Brian Hoyer, who was Jones’ back-up at the time all of that went down, explained later during a podcast appearance with Tom Curran and Phil Perry that the entire process was difficult, largely because of Patricia wanting to implement a system that he had no experience with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there was a lot of shifts trying to take place, and there were shifts trying to take place with kind of no clear path, I guess that\u2019s the best way I would put it,\u201d explained Hoyer<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cYou know, you were trying to get away from the system that had been run here for so long, but there also wasn\u2019t anyone who had been in another system that was trying to implement it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I\u2019ve played in a lot of different offenses, and what we were trying to do that year was kind of a hodge-podge of a bunch of different things without a clear-cut person who had ever run those things before, and I think that frustrated a lot of people, especially guys who had played in that offense for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, as frustrating as that period was, it doesn’t take away from some of the biggest moments fans experienced and Patricia was certainly a part of that.\u00a0 His interview with Julian Edelman from February of last year was terrific<\/strong><\/a>, with Patricia providing some terrific insight into that Super Bowl winning play by Malcolm Butler.<\/p>\n

At the time, Patricia’s biggest concern was Seattle running a rub play and the defense being out of position.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re good on the rub. They\u2019re going to go to the Snag 7 flat. The \u2018got to have it\u2019 play to the other side,” said Patricia.\u00a0 They\u2019re going to pick the linebacker. So I\u2019m on with High. I go, \u2018Hey, make sure you don\u2019t get picked here.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Lynch is going \u2013 this is going to be to be Snag 7 Flat to your side.\u2019 So I\u2019m watching the left side of the offense, the right side of the defense, and the ball is snapped and I look and it\u2019s Snag 7 Flat, and we get picked. Chandler\u2019s peeling late because he had the peel call. From the High [call], I\u2019m like, \u2018Give Chan [Chandler Jones] the call.\u2019 So Chan\u2019s [Chandler Jones] peeling late. But if it was good throw, I was like, this is going to be a touchdown. And I look and I\u2019m like, and then they picked the linebacker. So I\u2019m on the headset and I\u2019m like, \u2018All right, here we go.\u2019 I\u2019m like, all right, it\u2019s not the run. I\u2019m like, \u2018Yeah, we\u2019re going to get the Snag 7 Flat. I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, my God, they picked him.\u2019 And then everyone starts screaming like, \u2018No, he picked it!\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018Who picked what?\u2019 I didn\u2019t even see the play.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t even see the play on the other side. I was so worried because the guy\u2019s open in the flat. So everyone\u2019s going crazy. And I\u2019m like, \u2018What?\u2019 I don\u2019t even know. I\u2019m like, \u2018What happened?\u2019 Obviously, the best part of the story is [Brandon] Browner, who I love. Browner is the one when we were going into the half, Browner knew that personnel so good. He\u2019s like, \u2018Put me here, put them there, put them there.\u2019 So, to be a good coach, the best thing you can do is just listen to your best players, listen to your smart players. So that was the matchups that we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, the Patriots raised their first Lombardi Trophy in more than a decade, and won another two seasons later.<\/p>\n

He credits his players for that success, telling Edelman he was just glad to be part of it.<\/p>\n

“Look, I\u2019m just lucky to be there and help and do whatever I can to give you guys a chance to go play and execute,” he said.\u00a0 “But to watch you guys do that up close, man, that is a treat that I\u2019ll have with me forever, thankfully.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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