Jerome Henderson hired by Falcons, Morris to coach WRs

Jerome Henderson will leave the Dallas Cowboys defensive staff to become the passing game coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons. Raheem Morris will stay, too.

According to NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport, the Atlanta Falcons have hired former Dallas Cowboys secondary coach Jerome Henderson as their new defensive passing game coordinator. This hire was seemingly inevitable, as Henderson would have had to help the Cowboys coach in the Senior Bowl had he not joined the Falcons staff by the end of the weekend.

The NFL Network’s Albert Breer would help clarify Rapoport’s initial report on the Jerome Henderson hiring, stating that Henderson would assume defensive passing game coordinator duties, as former defensive passing game coordinator and assistant head coach Raheem Morris would take over the vacated wide receivers coach position.

Long-time Atlanta Falcons wide receivers coach Terry Robiskie went on to join his former offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey with the Tennessee Titans to become the Tennessee’s new offensive coordinator now that the Titans organization had removed the interim tag from Mularkey as head coach.

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Jerome Henderson’s hiring seems like a methodical one for the Atlanta Falcons, as it keeps the secondary staff in Flowery Branch, while it allows the Falcons to re-assign Raheem Morris to replace the departed Robiskie.

Morris was a former NFL head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2009-11) and has a great working relationship with Falcons head coach Dan Quinn from their time together at Hofstra University. It seems that the Atlanta Falcons have survived the 2016 NFL coaching carousel to keep their staff almost completely intact.

Impressively the Atlanta Falcons were able to keep defensive backs coach Marquand Manuel in Flowery Branch for a second season, despite a legitimate opportunity to become the next defensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Jacksonville gig went to Jaguars defensive line coach Todd Wash, but head coach Gus Bradley did offer Manuel a defensive passing coordinator job, which he ended up turning down to stay with the Atlanta Falcons.

Atlanta even prevented the New York Jets from trying to pry away one of the best special teams coordinators in the league in Keith Armstrong, citing that he had two more years left on his deal with the Falcons. Armstrong did play collegiately at Temple University with Jets head coach Todd Bowles back in the mid-to-late 1980s.

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Though losing Terry Robiskie to the Titans will hurt, it is great news to hear that Jerome Henderson will join the Falcons staff and that Raheem Morris, Marquand Manuel, and defensive coordinator Richard Smith are staying put with the 2016 Atlanta Falcons. Rise Up!