The Detroit Lions introduced new head coach Matt Patricia during a news conference Wednesday at the team's practice facility in Allen Park. Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press
The Beard has landed.
Matt Patricia arrived in Detroit on Wednesday to take over the Lions after spending weeks as the worst-kept hiring secret in the NFL. At first blush, the former Patriots defensive coordinator — fresh off Sunday’s Super Bowl — seemed intelligent, affable, polite and energized.
He also was much less hairy, having shaved down the trademark beard that was somewhere between “Game of Thrones” and a Hasidic rabbi.