Falcons hiring DL -Trainer Nate Ollie, defensive passing game coordinator Mike Rutenberg

Atlanta Falcons have filled a vacancy on their defensive coaching staff and added a new position in a fall, Announces Friday that they have hired previous Texans Assisting Defensive Line trainer Nate Ollie as their defensive line trainer and adds former Jets linebackers -coach Mike Rutenberg as their defensive passport coordinator.

The rent of Ollie is one that I am pretty excited about. As I wrote earlier this month when Falcons were set to interview Ollie, he is a coach who has either been an assistant or fully sent defensive line trainer for some very Productive Passport Defensive Lines in Houston, Indianapolis, New York (Jets) and Philadelphia. The Colts Defensive line took an absolute nosis last year with regard to sacks after letting Ollie go, something you can’t quite say was due to coach, but helps illustrate the caliber of work he performs. That and his short overlap with the new defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich in 2021 will help 2024, and probably more new additions.

Rutenberg is more of a well -known rent for Ulbrich as he spent the last four seasons with him in New York. Linebackers trainer during this stretch, Rutenberg also has a story as a defensive passing gaming specialist (with 49ers in 2020) and as a defensive backs coach (with Jaguars before that). Ulbrich will lean on him to help plan to oppose passing attacks like someone he knows and trusts, as well as someone who helped develop and/or lure more out of a talented group of Jets linebackers. The defensive passing gaming coordinator was a position that Falcons did not hold on the staff in 2024.

Give both coaches a warm welcome and hope they can be part of a renewed and rejuvenated Falcons defense in 2025.