Jets’ Jeff Ulbrich interviews for Falcons defensive coordinator job

Jeff Ulbrich is maintaining his choices open.

The Jets interim head coach accomplished an interview with the Falcons for his or her vacant defensive coordinator place on Wednesday.

Ulbrich, 47, has loads of connections with the Falcons, a group with which he held numerous defensive teaching positions from 2015-20.

Notably, Ulbrich was promoted to defensive coordinator in the course of the 2020 season underneath then-interim head coach Raheem Morris.

Morris later took over the reins because the group’s head coach for good this 12 months after Arthur Smith was fired following the 2023 season.

Ulbrich was the Jets’ defensive coordinator from 2021-24 till he turned the interim head coach for the ultimate 12 video games of this season after Robert Saleh was fired in October.

The interview for the defensive coordinator place comes lower than every week after Atlanta underwent a serious shakeup on its defensive employees, firing coordinator Jimmy Lake and line coach Jay Rodgers.

“After a radical analysis of the season, and with cautious consideration for our group’s future, we deemed these strikes needed,” Morris stated in a launch concerning the selections on Saturday. “These selections are by no means straightforward from the human aspect of issues and we want Jimmy, Jay and their households the most effective.”

Atlanta’s protection completed twenty third within the league in each factors (24.9) and yards (345.2) allowed yards per recreation.

Ulbrich, whose protection completed within the prime 5 in yards allowed in every of the final three seasons, interviewed for the Jets head teaching gig earlier this week.

Former Giants defensive coordinator Wink Martindale additionally interviewed for the Falcons DC job on Tuesday.