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Detroit Lions coach: A Matt Patricia story you haven't heard – rock on

Get to know Matt Patricia, the next head coach of the Detroit Lions. Video by Brian McNamara, Detroit Free Press Wochit

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – This story is about rocks, but not really.

The rocks that Matt Patricia spent seven or eight hours picking up at a farm in central New York one day in the spring of 1992.

He did it willingly and with a smile on his face, and it perhaps helps explain why everyone gushes about the soon-to-be Detroit Lions coach’s work ethic and passion for football.

Twenty-hour days at the office doing something you love are nothing when you’ve seen the alternative, even if only for a day.