Matt Patricia will stand in front of 100 or so players, coaches and support staff Monday to address the group for the first time as their head coach when the Detroit Lions begin their offseason training program in Allen Park.
It’s a moment 20 years in the making for Patricia, ever since the day he gave up a lucrative engineering job to be an assistant coach at Amherst College. It’s a first message Patricia admitted at the annual meetings last month he’s thought a lot about.
“I think it’s just going to be who I am and what the team should be,” Patricia said of what that first message to his team will be.