Despite a great meeting between Todd Monken and Jim Schwartz, Monken failed to talk his DC into returning: Browns Insider – cleveland.com

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  1. The defense will be fine without him. I would’ve liked to have seen him stay, but Monken was the right choice. His tantrum was pretty lame to be honest….

  2. Coach Todd: “Listen Jim, I love being stroked…”

    Jim just gets up and leaves

  3. Article is *archived* for your reading pleasure as always.

    The interesting nugget from this is:

    > Todd Monken failed to talk Jim Schwartz into coming back as defensive coordinator despite a great meeting between the two at the Browns facility on **_Monday_**, a league source tells cleveland.com.

    > …

    > By the time Monken took the podium on Tuesday for his introductory press conference, he knew that Schwartz wasn’t coming back, and sent a strong message that the unit would be just as dominant without its beloved coordinator.

  6. Sorry but Schwartz isn’t coaching at least until 2027 maybe 2028 as we have an option to extend his contract. So depending on how salty the Browns want to be we can legitimately keep him out of the game for 2 more season if we choose.

  8. If this meeting took place before his press conference that makes the chipping comment all that much more great! Our defense is not our concern, we’ll be fine

  9. Damn. Jimmy and AB weren’t involved in a personal personnel meeting for once. Talk about wanting to be a fly on the wall for what was said in that room.

  14. The 29-51 HC is upset he didn’t prove he deserved the position and had a tantrum. He couldn’t extract the best out of young Matt Stafford / Calvin Johnson and was under .500 with them when he got fired. What makes him think he could win with this roster?

  15. We had a great meeting a very productive meeting some people are calling it the best meeting I mean I don’t know about that but it was a great meeting

  16. Makes sense that he knew he wasn’t coming back. He spoke very highly of the defense doing well whether or not Schwartz was present.

  17. Not a Todd issue. What he wants isn’t anything Todd can give him…and he’s not gonna reward the people who could have given him that, by returning as DC.

  19. So the Schwartz gets a paid year off and another cycle to try to get that HC job that no one else was offering? Only to end up as a DC somewhere else with less talent?

    Fine.

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