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Matt Patricia’s attention to detail goes beyond the end zone

While not every Bill Belichick lieutenant has left New England and found success as a head coach, Matt Patricia has taken over an already decent Lions team and brought a few classic Patriots traits.

But he also walked in the door with an attention to detail (perhaps you heard he has an engineering background), and made one quick change.

According to Peter King of NBC in Football Morning in America, one of the first things Patricia noticed about the team’s indoor facility was that the practice fields lacked fixed goalposts. They’d just roll out temporary ones for practice and roll them back out of the way afterward.