{"id":11765,"date":"2023-01-28T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/falcons-announce-new-defensive-coordinator-ryan-nielsen-with-lame-dad-joke\/"},"modified":"2023-01-28T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T14:05:08","slug":"falcons-announce-new-defensive-coordinator-ryan-nielsen-with-lame-dad-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/falcons-announce-new-defensive-coordinator-ryan-nielsen-with-lame-dad-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons announce new defensive coordinator Ryan Nielsen with lame dad joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>of <span>falcons<\/span> The Saints named Ryan Nielsen, the Saints&#8217; co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach, as the franchise&#8217;s next defensive coordinator on Friday, poaching a well-respected assistant from rivals in the division. Nielsen will replace Dean Pease, who retired at the end of the 2022 season at the age of 73.<\/p>\n<p>As remarkable as Atlanta hired Nielsen was the way the club&#8217;s social team announced the transfer.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AtlantaFalcons\/status\/1619112947501916160?s=20&amp;t=ZIs0bfp_JX4-G91dlQFJog\" onclick=\"return phoenixTrackClickEvent(this, event);\" target=\"_blank\">on Twitter Friday night<\/a>, the Falcons tweeted an eye-popping dad joke along with the official hiring announcement. Beware: What you are about to read will probably bore you. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<p>\u201cNielsen ratings have gone up,\u201d the team wrote.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<p>Nice rapper indeed. <\/p>\n<p>Nielsen, 43, has spent the past six seasons with the Saints and has been the team&#8217;s defensive line coach for the full six years. He added the title of assistant head coach in 2021 and the role of co-defensive coordinator last season.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<p>Since Nielsen first joined the Saints in 2017, New Orleans has amassed 281 sacks. The Saints&#8217; defense is also particularly strong against the run, ranking among the top four teams in the league in run defense in four of the last five seasons.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<p>In response to Nielsen&#8217;s hiring, the Falcons also let go of three defensive coaches: defensive coach Gary Emmanuel, outside linebacker coach Ted Monacchino, and secondary coach John Hawke.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/template\" id=\"facebookPixel1103097776498609\">!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()\n{n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}\n;if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n(function(){\n    fbq('init', '1103097776498609');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    var contentId = 'ci02b67e0a50002645';\n    if (contentId !== '') {\n        fbq('track', 'ViewContent', {content_ids: [contentId], content_type: 'product'});\n    }\n})();<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiaGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNpLmNvbS9leHRyYS1tdXN0YXJkLzIwMjMvMDEvMjgvZmFsY29ucy1yeWFuLW5pZWxzZW4tbmV3LWRlZmVuc2l2ZS1jb29yZGluYXRvci1sYW1lLWRhZC1qb2tl0gFtaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2kuY29tLy5hbXAvZXh0cmEtbXVzdGFyZC8yMDIzLzAxLzI4L2ZhbGNvbnMtcnlhbi1uaWVsc2VuLW5ldy1kZWZlbnNpdmUtY29vcmRpbmF0b3ItbGFtZS1kYWQtam9rZQ?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] of falcons The Saints named Ryan Nielsen, the Saints&#8217; co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach, as the franchise&#8217;s next defensive coordinator on Friday, poaching<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ryan-nielsen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}