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ALLEN PARK Kenny Golladay Jersey White , Mich. (AP)Matt Patricia worked in relative obscurity in New England.The burly man with a bushy beard, baseball cap on backward, with a pencil above his right ear was noticed only occasionally while coordinating the Patriots‘ defense.As a first-year NFL head coach with the Detroit Lions, his every move and word have been watched and listened to while reporters have had access to him and his team during minicamp and offseason workouts. Patricia’s past has also been scrutinized.What does Patricia know about the job now that he didn’t know a few months ago?”Kind of everything,” Patricia said Monday. ”Everything is new. Everything is different.”A Detroit News report last month shed light on allegations against Patricia from 1996, when he and a friend were indicted 22 years ago by a Texas grand jury on one count each of aggravated sexual assault. The accuser did not testify and the case was dismissed.Patricia has said he was falsely accused. The Lions have said a pre-employment background check did not reveal the incident, adding they are standing by Patricia. The NFL determined allegations against Patricia are not subject to its personal conduct policy.While not referring specifically to the fallout from the allegations, Patricia acknowledged his job description includes more than Xs and Os on the football field.”The requirements are different Womens Kenny Golladay Jersey ,” he said. ”So, that’s kind of the biggest adjustment from that standpoint.”The Lions are making adjustments, too, under Patricia after practicing and playing for Jim Caldwell the previous four seasons.”He’s a guy that’s going to push you and try to get the best out of you every day,” cornerback Nevin Lawson said.Patricia lashed out at his players last week, screaming for them to move faster from one drill to another with words not fit to print even if team policy allowed it. Caldwell wasn’t heard yelling at players when the media was around and players didn’t hear him use profanity even privately.”Coach Patricia is an intense guy,” tight end Michael Roberts said. ”He’s a smart guy. Obviously, he knows what he is doing. Things were done differently last year. He comes in with his way of doing things. … If you’re not getting better http://www.lionslockerroom.com/authentic-dwayne-washington-jersey , you’re getting worse. He says that a lot.”Return specialist Jamal Agnew was one of the many players who mentioned, ”high expectations,” when asked about Patricia. And, Agnew doesn’t have a problem trying to live up to lofty goals with the Lions under their new, hard-driving coach.”He’s won,” Agnew said. ”He’s played winning football.”The 43-year-old Patricia helped New England win three Super Bowls over 14 years, working as its defensive coordinator the previous six seasons. He was hired by Lions general manager Bob Quinn, who had his eye on Patricia as a candidate to replace Caldwell after working together for a dozen years with the Patriots.Lions linebacker Jonathan Freeny Womens Tracy Walker Jersey , one of a handful of former Patriots playing on Detroit’s roster, said Patricia looks and sounds like the same coach he was in New England.”He brings the same enthusiasm – same intensity – to the game every day,” Freeny said.— The Lions said in March that a new contract for defensive tackle Damon Harrison wasn’t something he’d think about until after the draft and that approach appears to be having an impact on Harrison’s approach to the team’s offseason workouts.Those workouts got underway this week and Kyle Meinke of MLive.com reports that Harrison has not been in attendance. He hasn’t made any comment about the reason why he’s not at the voluntary workouts, but he wouldn’t be the first player to stay away from his team while making a push for a new deal.It’s unclear if Harrison’s absence will push the Lions to give him what he’s looking for on the contract front. He has two years left on his deal and teams are generally reticent to open the door to renegotiating deals with that much time left on a current pact.Harrison joined the Lions in a midseason trade with the Giants last year and the team’s run defense made a noticeable turn for the better after his arrival in Detroit.