The Ravens will announce the hiring of Jerry Rosburg as special teams coordinator at a 2 p.m. news conference this afternoon at Owings Mills.

Rosburg spent last season as special teams coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons. Before that, he spent six years coaching the Cleveland Browns' special-teams unit.

Rosburg, 52, also was a college coach for 20 years, including a two-year stint (1999-2000) as Notre Dame's cornerbacks and special teams coach.

Here's what he told the Atlanta Falcons' Web site about his philosophy for special teams in a Q&A last season:

Special teams has a role, in my view, that goes beyond the fundamentals of field position. We want to be a tempo setter. I think that many times the personality of a team can be represented very well by special teams. If you have a kickoff team that is going downfield and mauling people, keeping a team inside the 20 and are excited about what they are doing, and we are changing the field with our return game and guys are excited about that -- these are things we are going to take pride in how we play.

Frank Gansz Jr. spent the last two seasons as the Ravens' special teams coordinator.

Ravens head coach John Harbaugh spent nine seasons as the special-teams coach of the Philadelphia Eagles before shifting to secondary coach in his final year there.