A Patriots beat reporter from the Boston Herald is reporting Matt Patricia could be in line for the linebackers job with the Eagles:

I hope the DBs and LBs room are on different sides of NovaCare because Darius Slay has zero respect for Matt Patricia. One of the first times Patricia met Slay he told him he wasn’t “elite” and shouldn’t be working out with guys like Richard Sherman and Aqib Talib. Slay talked about another incident in Detroit with Michael Rothstein at ESPN where “he lost all respect for him”:

The incident that bothered Slay more, he said, happened later during a team meeting after a training camp practice that led them to “never see eye-to-eye” from then on. A player whom Slay declined to name caught a couple of passes on him.

After practice, Slay posted a picture on social media about him and the receiver. At the start of the meeting later that night, Patricia used the social media photo at the start of the meeting along with a small highlight tape of said player on the board before addressing Slay.

Slay, 29, said Patricia put the picture on the team board, with Patricia essentially telling him to stop kissing up to another player, although the coach used a more profane analogy.

“Yeah. Right there, after that, that’s when all my respect went out the door for him. As a man,” Slay said.

He talked about this story as recently as Super Bowl media day so it’s not like they’ve made up.  There’ve been multiple former Detroit players that were outspoken against Patricia during his time there. It doesn’t seem like a move that entirely makes sense based off of how much Nick Sirianni stresses the importance of relationship building. But maybe with a deep DB draft this adds to the speculation they’re going to move Slay to free up some cap space and find someone with more team control and look to free agency.

 

UPDATE – Yea Slay definitely hasn’t forgiven Matt Patricia. Charles Woodson quoted a tweet about the report saying players will play even if they don’t like the coach:


Slay’s former Lions teammate Quandre Diggs replied and even gave a little insight:

Slay jumped in seemingly agreeing with Woodson:

But he also quoted Diggs original tweet alluding to how bad the situation between them was:

Can’t see Slay being happy with the Eagles if they hire Patricia to go along with Dennard Wilson mutually parting ways with the team. Could be interesting.