NFL Coach’s Wife Dies After Battle With Cancer

Elsa / Getty Images The wife of a coach for the Atlanta Falcons NFL team has died after a battle with cancer. Cristina Ulbrich, who first met her husband, defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich in 1997 while he was recruiting at the University of Hawaii, died at the age of 48 on Thursday. Jeff, who spent four years with the New York Jets before joining the Falcons in 2025, is understood to have been absent from training sessions for much of the week. The team paid tribute to Cristina in a statement…