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Patricia has one of the most unique paths to a coaching career, considering he was an aeronautical engineer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before he got to the sidelines. Belichick and other members of Patriots personnel have praised Patricia's intelligence, which spills into his coaching career. "This guy could probably build a plane and fly it -- like, this guy is smart," Belichick said in a news conference in 2015. "He's got great recall and a really high IQ level in terms of just processing a lot of information. Some of us can only handle barely one thing at a time. He's the type of guy that can keep a lot of balls in the air. But again, he's a blue-collar guy, certainly wasn't born with a silver spoon like most players, so they're just working for everything, working his way up through, I think he has an appreciation for that and I think he relates well to other guys who are doing the same thing."