Jeff Ulbrich opens up on the ‘lack of fact’ that damage Jets

Regrets, he has just a few.

Jeff Ulbrich revealed Monday among the issues that went incorrect 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 fact” was one of many largest points he skilled because the Jets spiraled.

“I realized much more than I knew the worth of truth-tellers in your employees,” Ulbrich mentioned.

“There’s sure issues that have to be advised to the pinnacle coach which might be occurring as a result of plenty of instances what I discovered in that interim position was, though it was interim, it was like I felt the shift in the best way folks talked to me and handled me and what they mentioned to me and the dearth of fact generally was actually detrimental, you realize?

“So it simply it bolstered the concept that [Falcons head coach Raheem Morris] goes to want me in that approach, to make it possible for I’m at all times telling the reality and possibly, you realize, eliminating among the blind spots that he doesn’t see.”

Ulbrich additionally realized that not delegating his defensive coordinator obligations after turning into the interim coach was a mistake.

“There is a component of a failure for myself in that approach 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 believed the perfect factor for me to do at that time limit was simply attempt to hold everyone in the identical position that they’d simply so we might hold issues rolling. And it wasn’t the proper 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 ultimately went to Aaron Glenn, and Ulbrich returned to Atlanta, the place he coached linebackers from 2015-20.

— With AP