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Matt Groh has risen into the No. 2 role in the New England Patriots’ front office. With Bill Belichick coaching and serving as the general manager, he gets spread thin, which means he asks a lot of his coordinators and his director of player personnel, Groh, who the Patriots promoted this offseason.
Groh addressed how he’s felt about the promotion for the first time since taking over for Dave Ziegler, now the Raiders GM, this offseason.
“It’s great working with coach — absolutely love it. With all the input that he asks from us, and just getting his ideas, and the information that he has on these players through his different relationships across the country at different schools. It’s been fantastic. I definitely take it as a huge honor, given the people who I’m working with and the people who have sat in this chair before me, to Scott Pioli, to Nick Caserio, to Dave Ziegler — think a lot of all those people. And, really, to be in this chair is an honor, knowing that they’ve sat in it. And then, really, to be sitting here with all the people who I’m so fortunate to work along with.”
Groh rose up the Patriots ranks from scouting assistant (2011-2012), area scout (2013-2018), national scout (2019-2020), director of college scouting (2021) and into his current role.
“Yeah, it’s been great. Obviously, coach [Belichick] is the General Manager, coach is in charge. He’s been doing this a long time,” Groh told reporters during a videoconference call on Friday. ‘The more I can learn from coach Belichick and a lot of the other guys around here — I’m gonna do that.
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