Regrets, he has just a few.
Jeff Ulbrich revealed Monday a number of the issues that went mistaken throughout his 12-game stint because the Jets’ interim head coach following the firing of Robert Saleh.
Ulbrich joined the Falcons as their new defensive coordinator after he held the identical place with the Jets, who went 3-9 with Ulbrich as an interim coach.
The 47-year-old mentioned a “lack of reality” was one of many largest points he skilled because the Jets spiraled.
“I discovered much more than I knew the worth of truth-tellers in your employees,” Ulbrich mentioned.
“There’s sure issues that have to be instructed to the pinnacle coach which are occurring as a result of a number of instances what I discovered in that interim position was, though it was interim, it was like I felt the shift in the way in which individuals talked to me and handled me and what they mentioned to me and the shortage of reality generally was actually detrimental, you already know?
“So it simply it bolstered the concept [Falcons head coach Raheem Morris] goes to want me in that method, to make it possible for I’m at all times telling the reality and perhaps, you already know, eliminating a number of the blind spots that he doesn’t see.”
Ulbrich additionally realized that not delegating his defensive coordinator obligations after changing into the interim coach was a mistake.
“There is a component of a failure for myself in that method as a result of I didn’t delegate,” Ulbrich mentioned. “I didn’t. I simply took all of it on myself. In my thoughts’s eye, I used to be attempting to create continuity and I didn’t desire a fractious employees.
“I assumed the perfect factor for me to do at that cut-off date was simply attempt to hold everyone in the identical position that that they had simply so we may hold issues rolling. And it wasn’t the appropriate factor to do. It wasn’t as I look again. I ought to have delegated. I ought to have given the defensive coordinator obligations to another person.”
Ulbrich interviewed for the full-time Jets gig that finally went to Aaron Glenn, and Ulbrich returned to Atlanta, the place he coached linebackers from 2015-20.
— With AP
