NFL coaches build their staffs through shared connections, so it shouldn’t come as a shock that at least one Detroit Lions defensive assistant has followed ex-defensive coordinator Teryl Austin to the Cincinnati Bengals.

WDFN reports assistant defensive line coach Matt Raich left Detroit for Cincinnati, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press:

Together with defensive line coach Kris Kocurek, Raich helped patch together a unit that was missing two of its four starters for most of the season and dealt with the constant less-than-healthiness of a third.

The development of unsung young players like Anthony Zettel and Cornelius Washington, along with second-year second-rounder A’Shawn Robinson and production of elderly living legend Dwight Freeney, all suggest that position group was getting good coaching.

Though Raich will surely be missed in the building, Kocurek’s ability and intensity has already carried him through one coaching-staff changeover, and he’ll likely survive this one, too.