Matt Patricia named Defensive Coordinator
Patricia will enter his ninth NFL season. After serving as a coaching assistant in 2004 and an assistant offensive line coach in 2005, he was named the linebackers coach in 2006, a position he held for the five seasons (2006-10). He coached the safeties in 2011. After a standout collegiate career as an offensive lineman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Patricia served as a graduate assistant in 1996 before a two-year stint (1999-00) as a defensive line coach at Amherst and a three-year stint as a graduate assistant (2001-03) at Syracuse.
At first there was no offensive or defense coordinator, then there was an offensive coordinator but no defensive coordinator, now there's both.
Dean Pees was the last official defensive coordinator and Patricia was basically the unofficial Defensive Coordinator since Pees left following the 2009 season.
