It’s not that shocking that Matt Patricia is Madden Mobile Coins not on his way to take a head-coaching job after his Patriots won the Super Bowl. It will be shocking if he’s not doing that a year from now.Patricia, the defensive coordinator whose unit gave up the fewest points in the NFL this past season, has been on head-coaching hot lists the last three offseasons, but barring a sudden, bizarre shift, he’ll be back in Foxborough next season.Like his offensive counterpart,

 

Josh McDaniels, it seems like it’s just a matter of time before he leaves his longtime NFL coaching home.And no, it’s not expected to hinder Patricia’s chances that he wore an impossible-to-ignore t-shirt of NFL 18 Coins Roger Goodell with a red clown nose when he debarked the team plane from Houston this week.MORE: Highlights from Patriots' Super Bowl paradeMore relevant to his chances: the clown suit he put on Dan Quinn,

 

Kyle Shanahan and the Falcons offense that led the league in scoring, that rolled to a 28-3 third-quarter lead … and then was shut out for the game’s last 21 minutes 29 seconds.Before the Patriots’ AFC championship game win over the Steelers last month, Patricia’s players described how a unit that didn’t seem to have superstars or any one outstanding area of dominance consistently stopped teams when it had to.

 

Their theme: diligent preparation for maddenvip each opponent, near-flawless adjustments and execution.Translation: talented, yes, but exceedingly well-coached.This evolved despite the Patriots trading one premiere defender, Chandler Jones, last offseason, and another, Jamie Collins, in midseason — per the team’s standard practice of changing pieces on defense often to suit the needs and wants of both Bill Belichick and the salary cap.