Mobile, Ala. — Matt Patricia and Cory Undlin worked together for less than a year, but the circumstance and timing of that year set the course of a lifelong bond that has intersected 16 years later in Detroit.
In 2004, Patricia and Undlin were young coaches, in their first year on the bottom rungs of the New England Patriots staff. They were just trying to figure out how to survive and thrive in football.