C.J. Mosley is aware of what’s coming in Jeff Ulbrich’s Jets regime

Few gamers are nearer with Jeff Ulbrich — whom the Jets named their interim coach after firing Robert Saleh on Tuesday — than C.J. Mosley. 

Mosley is in his fifth season with the workforce (he opted out of the 2020 season as a result of COVID-19 pandemic) and was already a staple at linebacker when Ulbrich was employed as defensive coordinator in 2021.

Mosley has been a workforce captain every season with the Jets and emerged as one in every of Ulbrich’s most trusted leaders. 

“He’s an final competitor,” Mosley stated on a Zoom name Wednesday. “Simply working with him day by day, going by means of the battles we’ve been by means of the final 4 years, I do know what makes him tick. I do know his story, I do know his why, I do know his household — when somebody that intimately, you then naturally wish to carry out at your greatest for him and also you wish to do issues to make him proud. 

“He’s simply a kind of coaches that brings that out of you each single day. Even once you’re drained, even when he’s drained, he discovered a option to inspire our defensive workers and our defensive room each single day.” 

Ulbrich’s unit is second-best within the NFL in yardage this yr. He oversaw top-five models every of the earlier two seasons as nicely. 

Past serving to excessive draft picks Quinnen Williams and Sauce Gardner remodel into superstars, Ulbrich has helped develop much less heralded gamers — like Quincy Williams and Michael Carter II — into a number of the greatest at their positions throughout the NFL. 

And his affect has gone past regular members of the protection, stretching to punter Thomas Morstead. 

“I keep in mind having a dialog with [Ulbrich] final yr and asking how he ran his defensive conferences,” Morstead stated Wednesday. “He stated ‘Hey man, you’re a part of the protection. You set us up earlier than we go on the market. We’d like to have you ever come sit in our night-before-the-game assembly.’ So I did that for the remainder of final season. At one level, I even received an opportunity to talk to the blokes, which was actually cool.” 

Ulbrich performed 10 seasons within the league as a linebacker, all with the 49ers. His power as a former participant is infectious. 

“I feel the factor that I respect about [Ulbrich] is No. 1, he performed the sport on the highest degree,” Morstead stated. “He is aware of what it’s prefer to be a participant on this league. Most guys aren’t able to be achieved enjoying in the event that they actually love the sport, and he nonetheless has kinda a participant’s ardour for the sport. You possibly can see that with how he talks to the blokes. I hope he’s simply who he has at all times been.” 

Ulbrich briefly addressed the workforce Tuesday, and the workforce additionally held a players-only assembly. 

What was the brand new message? 

“The primary factor that I heard quite a bit yesterday was accountability,” Mosley stated. “That’s what we’ve to remember going ahead. All of us should be accountable each single day we come to the constructing, each single day that we get up. Each determination that’s made inside our group, particularly with our workforce, all of us should take some form of accountability. … I feel this was positively a wake-up name and an eye-opener for lots of people.”