{"id":900,"date":"2026-05-20T14:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:06:31","slug":"former-jets-interim-coach-jeff-ulbrich-gets-an-opportunity-in-nfls-revamped-accelerator-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Former Jets interim coach Jeff Ulbrich gets an opportunity in NFL\u2019s revamped accelerator program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Jeff Ulbrich hopes his brief tenure as interim head coach of the New York Jets doesn\u2019t prevent him from leading his own team.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=898\">World Cup host Boston has lobster rolls, American history and Fenway Park: Things to know<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daronte Jones is making sure he\u2019s ready for a promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Both defensive coordinators were among 34 participants in the NFL\u2019s revamped coaching and front-office accelerator program that was held Monday and Tuesday at a posh resort just a few miles from Disney World.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to hope that people don\u2019t judge me 100% off of that experience because it is challenging but, at the same time, I learned a lot, although it was not necessarily my team and my culture and my staff,\u201d Ulbrich said about going 3-9 with the 2024 Jets after replacing Robert Saleh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved all the members of that team, both players and coaches alike, but I did learn the responsibilities and the things that come across that desk that I had no clue of. I think we make assumptions that we know and until you actually sit in it, it was eye-opening to say the least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The league created the accelerator program in 2022 as an extension of the Rooney Rule to increase diversity among coaches and front office executives. <\/p>\n<p>Participants get an opportunity to connect with owners and team executives, and attend sessions designed to equip them for future interviews. The program was paused last year and now includes nonminority participants. Nearly half of this year\u2019s group were white men, including Ulbrich. <\/p>\n<p>Other participants included former Dolphins coach and now Chargers OC Mike McDaniel; former Giants interim coach and now Lions assistant Mike Kafka; Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy; and Vikings assistant Josh McCown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get caught in my defensive-minded silo in that I don\u2019t think about potential coaching staffs, I don\u2019t think about the global vision of a team necessarily as often as I should,\u201d said Ulbrich, who enters his second season with the Atlanta Falcons. \u201cThis is that opportunity to step away from your club and step away from your primary role that you\u2019re currently serving and really look at it from that perspective. There\u2019s a ton of power in that because it\u2019s not your job until it\u2019s your job, and to think that you\u2019re just gonna follow into it and have success, you\u2019re setting yourself up for a real failure that way. This is definitely preparing us in a way that we wouldn\u2019t otherwise be prepared. So I\u2019m very grateful to the NFL for having this and providing this for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones is in his first season with the Washington Commanders after working two stints in Minnesota. He was the Vikings\u2019 defensive backs coach in 2020, spent 2021 as the defensive coordinator at LSU and returned to Minnesota from 2022-2025.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=896\">Women\u2019s flag football on track to gain NCAA championship status before sport makes its Olympic debut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been great, the perspective of challenging who you are as a person and self-awareness, fear and how that can kind of tap into things and just identify things so it\u2019s been very informative that way,\u201d Jones said about his experience at the accelerator. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very thankful for having this program. Just the amount of information and resources that was allotted to us these last 48 hours has been huge so I\u2019m just thankful and grateful to be a part of this. You\u2019re getting so much information you want to share it to others and you\u2019re like, man, I wish other people could hear this and it\u2019s just been very valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One head coach (Aaron Glenn) and two general managers (Ran Carthon and Ian Cunningham) were hired after participating in the original iteration of the NFL\u2019s accelerator program.<\/p>\n<p>The league has been under scrutiny for its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena to the NFL as his office investigates whether the league has committed potential civil rights violations related to the Rooney Rule and the league\u2019s other employment practices, policies and programs.<\/p>\n<p>Uthmeier threatened possible enforcement actions against the league in March if it didn\u2019t suspend the 23-year-old Rooney Rule, which requires NFL teams to interview at least two external minority candidates for head coach, general manager and coordinator positions. At least one minority candidate must be interviewed for the quarterbacks coach position.<\/p>\n<p>Uthmeier said in a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that the Rooney Rule amounts to \u201cblatant race and sex discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think all of our policies, all of our programs need to be looked at because the challenges are different,\u201d Goodell said. \u201cAnd so as we\u2019re looking at every single one of our programs, we did that, whether it\u2019s the accelerator program or any one of the policies. It\u2019s one of the things we spent time on today, is how do we continue to look at our policies in scheduling? How do we look at policies in international? All of those things are hoping to make our game better, make it more accessible to our fans. And that doesn\u2019t happen without a lot of work and refocus. You can call it innovation, I think it is in many ways, but it\u2019s a desire to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=894\">Man killed, woman critically hurt in Harnett County rollover crash, NCSHP officials say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NFL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. 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