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.

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 ...

Jeff Ulbrich revealed Monday some of the things that went wrong during his 12-game stint as the Jets’ interim head coach following the firing of Robert Saleh. Ulbrich joined the Falcons as their new defensive coordinator after he held the same position with the Jets, who went 3-9 with Ulbrich as an interim coach.

Jeff Ulbrich is back for a second stint as the Falcons' defensive coordinator and the topic of what he's learned since 2020 was a topic of conversation at a Monday press conference in Atlanta.

Jeff Ulbrich is making a return to Atlanta after four seasons with the New York Jets. Ulbrich’s hiring was announced on January 18th after leading the Jets as interim head coach in 12 games this past season.

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.

After interviewing 16 different people for the team’s head coaching vacancy, the New York Jets look like they have made their hire.