Matt Patricia Wife
Meet Raina Patricia, the wife of Matt Patricia, the de facto defensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles. He previously served as defensive coordinator for the New England Patriots and head coach for the Detroit Lions. He joined the Patriots in 2004, first as their offensive coaching assistant and second as an offensive line coach. Before that, he was a college coach. Throughout the years with New England, Patricia has served as a linebackers coach, safety coach, and, ultimately, defensive coordinator since 2012. From 2018 to 2020, served as head coach for the Lions before returning to New England as Senior football advisor and Defensive coordinator for the Patriots. He joined Nick Sirianni‘s coaching staff in March 2023.
Raina Patricia
The first thing you need to know, is that Matt and his lovely wife Raina Patricia are the proud parents of three beautiful and amazing children: sons Dominic and Dante, and daughter, Giamina. Actually, Raina was born Raina Griglelevich on September 15, 1978.
It seems that Raina Patricia attended Cumberland High School in Rhode Island and later went to Bryant University. She was an assistant manager at Gap from 1997 to 2000; and served as a marketing assistant for the Spinnaker Group between 2001 and 2004, weekend marketing at the Residential properties and Board of Directors Management & Event Coordination at State Street Corp.
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Matt Patricia Coaching Career
- Patricia started his coaching career in 1996 as a graduate assistant at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
- He then worked as an application engineer for Hoffman Air & Filtration Systems in East Syracuse, New York from 1997 to 1998.
- Although he received an offer to maintain nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers with Westinghouse Electric Company, Patricia chose to return to football.
- From 1999 to 2000, he served as the defensive line coach for Amherst College.
- In 2001, Patricia joined Syracuse University as an offensive graduate assistant for three seasons.
- He joined the New England Patriots as an offensive coaching assistant in 2004, coinciding with the team’s Super Bowl XXXIX victory.
- After the departure of Jeff Davidson in 2005, Patricia was reassigned as the Patriots’ assistant offensive line coach.
- He moved to the position of linebackers coach for the 2006 season following the promotion of Dean Pees to defensive coordinator.
- Patricia became the team’s safeties coach in 2011.
- He was promoted to defensive coordinator in 2012, a role he had informally held since Pees’ departure in 2009.
- Despite interviewing for the Cleveland Browns’ head-coaching position in 2016, Patricia stayed with the Patriots as defensive coordinator.
- While he was with the Patriots, the team won three Super Bowls: Super Bowl XXXIX (2004), Super Bowl XLIX (2014), and Super Bowl LI (2016).
- On January 1, 2018, it was reported that Patricia was a target of the Detroit Lions’ and New York Giants’ head coaching searches.
- To date, Patricia is the last defensive play-caller at the Patriots to officially hold the title of defensive coordinator.
- Patricia was officially announced as the Detroit Lions’ head coach on February 5, 2018.
- Patricia lost his inaugural two games as head coach; first against the New York Jets (48-17) on September 10, 2018, and then to the San Francisco 49ers (30-27) on September 16, 2018.
- His first victory as a head coach occurred on September 23, 2018 when the Lions defeated the New England Patriots 26-10, marking their first win over the Patriots since 2000.
- The Lions recorded a 6-10 record in 2018 and a disappointing 3-12-1 season in 2019 under Patricia’s leadership, a decline from the 9-7 record in 2017 under previous coach Jim Caldwell.
- Despite this decline, owners Martha Firestone Ford and Sheila Ford Hamp decided to retain Patricia for the 2020 season.
- Patricia and general manager Bob Quinn were fired by the Lions on November 28, 2020, following consecutive losses that brought the team’s record to 4-7. Patricia’s overall record with the Lions was 13-29-1 (.314) over two and a half seasons.
- Patricia returned to the New England Patriots on January 22, 2021, in a variety of unspecified roles similar to Mike Lombardi’s previous position with the team.
- Patricia was announced as the Patriots’ senior football advisor and offensive line coach on July 21, 2022, and served as the offensive playcaller throughout the 2022 season.
- Despite a drop in offensive performance to an average of 18.1 points per game in the 2022 season, Patricia retained his advisory role with the team.
- On April 20, 2023, Patricia joined the Philadelphia Eagles as a senior defensive assistant.
- Following consecutive losses by the Eagles, head coach Nick Sirianni announced on December 17, 2023, that Patricia would replace Sean Desai as the defensive playcaller, effectively making Patricia the team’s defensive coordinator.
