Unlike the last two offseasons, the team is short on salary cap space which will limit what general manager Terry Fontenot can do. Atlanta must decide which of its 30 impending free agents to re-sign in 2025. Defensively, the team has 17 players set to become free agents when the new league year begins.

As the Super Bowl countdown begins, several eliminated teams are focusing their efforts elsewhere: finding and hiring new coaches.

According to Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network, the Falcons are hiring Jeff Ulbrich to be their next defensive coordinator. Ulbrich was previously the defensive coordinator for the New York Jets and took over as the interim head coach this season after Robert Saleh was fired.

From the outset, all NFL fingers were pointing to Jets interim coach Jeff Ulbrich ... quickly deciding on Ulbrich on Saturday, just a week after Lake was fired. Here are five challenges facing Ulbrich on the first day of his new job: 1.

Ulbrich was the New York Jets' defensive coordinator over the past four seasons and served as interim head coach for the final 12 games of the 2024 season. NEWSLETTERS Emailed Daily.

(AP) — The Atlanta Falcons continued their search for a defensive coordinator by conducting a virtual interview with New York Jets interim coach and defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich ...

Raheem Morris named Jeff Ulbrich as his defensive ... just one season with the team. Ulbrich, 47, most recently had been the interim head coach of the New York Jets. He took over after the firing ...

Most of the New York Jets' head coaching options would likely bring major schematic changes to the team's defense.

According to a report from Zack Rosenblatt of The Athletic, “there’s some real buzz about” Saleh becoming the next head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars. The team fired Doug Pederson last week and will be on their fifth HC this decade:

From the outset, all NFL fingers were pointing to Jets interim coach Jeff ... Ulbrich on Saturday, just a week after Lake was fired. Here are five challenges facing Ulbrich on the first day of his ...

He becomes the fifth NFL head coach to have a playing history with his current team, after Mike Vrabel (New England Patriots), Jim Harbaugh (Los Angeles Chargers), DeMeco Ryans (Houston Texans) and Dan Campbell, his most recent boss in Detroit.