NFC Notes: Dan Morgan, Jeff Ulbrich, Bryce Young, Falcons, Panthers

Falcons

• Falcons new DC Jeff Ulbrich was asked how his relationship with HC Raheem Morris will be different since both have improved since they worked together in 2020: “My core principles are the same, my football brain is in a different place.” (Tori McElhaney)
• Ulbrich emphasized pressuring the QB and the pass rush as a whole: “It’s a priority. It’s something that has to be fixed.” (McElhaney)
• Regarding his time as the Jets interim HC, Ulbrich admitted fault in his lack of delegations: “There is an element of a failure for myself in that way because I didn’t delegate it, I didn’t. I just took it all on myself. In my mind’s eye, I was trying to create continuity and I didn’t want to fracture the staff… I thought the best thing for me to do at that point in time was just try to keep everybody in the same role that they had just so we could keep things rolling — and it wasn’t the right thing to do.” (Richi Cimini)
• He continued: “As I look back, I should have delegated, I should have given the defensive coordinator responsibilities to someone else and because it’s just, in my opinion, it is too hard, especially when it’s thrown on you in the middle of the season.” (Cimini)
• Ulbrich was asked what he learned during his time in charge where he could see how the team ran from a different lens: “I learned even more than I knew the value of truth tellers on your staff. I think sometimes as an assistant coach you take it as, ‘I’m going to eliminate every problem from the head coach’s table so he can thrive and do his thing,’ when in reality there are certain things that need to be taken off the head coach’s table but there are certain things that need to be on his table.” (Zack Rosenblatt)
• He touched on the way things were different when he took over as the head coach: “A lot of times what I found in the interim role was that even though it was interim, I felt the shift in the way people talked to me and treated me and what they said to me. The lack of truth sometimes was really detrimental. It reinforced the idea that Rah is going to need me in that way to eliminate some of the blind spots he might have.” (Rosenblatt)

Panthers

Former Panthers TE Greg Olsen commented on the turnaround that he saw from QB Bryce Young over the course of the 2024 season.

“I had him in the Cowboy game, (which) wasn’t one of his better games since he took over,” Olsen said, via Joe Person of The Athletic. *“But the overall sample size when he took back over for Andy (Dalton), me and Luke would talk about it all the time: He just looks different. We can talk about his feet in the pocket and his release...