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The Falcons announced the hiring of Jeff Ulbrich as their new defensive coordinator on Saturday night.
The team interviewed seven candidates this week following the Jan. 11 firing of defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake, after Lake spent one season with the team.
Ulbricht returns to Atlanta after four seasons with the Jets. He was the team’s defensive coordinator until the Jets fired Robert Saleh as head coach five games into the season.
The Jets named Ulbrich the interim head coach and gave him a courtesy interview for the full-time job.
Ulbricht, a former NFL player for 10 seasons, was the Falcons’ linebackers coach on Dan Quinn’s staff from 2015-19. He was part of the same staff as current Falcons head coach Raheem Morris, who also arrived in Atlanta in 2015.
Morris spent four years under Quinn working on offense, but was named the team’s defensive coordinator before the 2020 season. When the Falcons parted ways with Quinn a month into the 2020 season, Morris was promoted to interim head coach. He then named Ulbrich defensive coordinator for the remaining 11 games of that season.
The Falcons did not retain anyone from Quinn’s staff beyond the 2020 season. Morris left for the Rams to be their defensive coordinator and Ulbrich headed to New York. Now the two are back together trying to turn around a Falcons defense that ranked 23rd in the league in total defense in 2024.
