{"id":433681,"date":"2023-04-20T21:40:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T01:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433681"},"modified":"2023-04-20T19:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:21:05","slug":"matt-patricia-joins-philadelphia-eagles","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/matt-patricia-joins-philadelphia-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Patricia joins Philadelphia Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eagles appointed the ex-<a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/detroit-lions\/\">Detroit Lions<\/a> head coach and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/new-england-patriots\/\">New England Patriots<\/a> assistant Patricia in the role of senior defensive assistant.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UPDATE: Matt Patricia has been named the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eagles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Eagles<\/a> senior defensive assistant, per the team website.<\/p>\n<p>Darius Slay and Patricia have a bad history together from their time in Detroit. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/74JRm95Pn2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/74JRm95Pn2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasrifootball\/status\/1649111134060814336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>During a press conference, Nick Sirianni, Philadelphia&#8217;s head coach, said it is almost sure to bring in Matt Patricia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 speaks for itself. It gives you a great mind in there that&#8217;s done it at the highest level,&#8221; HC of the Philly said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gives you a great ability to bounce ideas off of with the defensive staff, and also gives me another former head coach that I can bounce ideas off of as well with things which I think would be very helpful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bill Belichick used Matt last season as an offensive play-caller after Josh McDaniels left that role in the Patriots to grow into <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/circuit\/las-vegas\/\">Las Vegas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/las-vegas-raiders\/\"> Raiders<\/a> head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, Patricia was the defensive coordinator in New England for 5 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eagles appointed the ex-Detroit Lions head coach and New England Patriots assistant Patricia in the role of senior defensive assistant. UPDATE: Matt Patricia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433682,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324,17123],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18934,17873,18180],"acf":{"announce":"Patricia will be a senior defensive assistant.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433683,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433681\/revisions\/433683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433681"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433681"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}