{"id":673618,"date":"2026-01-13T09:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/673618\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:04:30","slug":"ravens-request-to-interview-browns-dc-jim-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/673618\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens request to interview Browns&#8217; DC Jim Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/baltimore-ravens\/366\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ravens;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ravens<\/a> are quite familiar with Jim Schwartz after facing the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Browns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Browns<\/a>&#8216; defensive coordinator twice a year over the last three seasons in the AFC North. With both franchises without head coaches, Baltimore has requested an interview with the leader of Cleveland&#8217;s elite defensive unit. The Browns fired Kevin Stefanski last Monday after six seasons and a 36-58 overall mark. Stefanski was a two-time AP NFL Coach of the Year, but Cleveland had an 8-26 mark the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore then fired Jim Harbaugh on Tuesday evening after 18 years and 12 playoff appearances.<\/p>\n<p>A long-time defensive coordinator, Schwartz, 59, has head coaching experience, leading the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/detroit-lions\/334\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Lions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Detroit Lions<\/a> from 2009 through 2013. In Detroit, Schwartz amassed a 29-52 overall record and led the Lions to the playoffs in 2011, three seasons after they were the first NFL team to go 0-16.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Over the last three seasons in Cleveland with the Browns, Schwartz&#8217;s unit led the league in total defense in 2023 and ranked fourth this season, as Myles Garrett recorded 23 sacks and broke the NFL single-season record.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Ravens Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/ravens\/2026\/01\/12\/jim-schwartz-to-interview-for-ravens-head-coaching-position\/88147778007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jim Schwartz to interview for Ravens head coaching position;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jim Schwartz to interview for Ravens head coaching position<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ravens are quite familiar with Jim Schwartz after facing the Browns&#8216; defensive coordinator twice a year over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[1990,184,86,85,54,2337,2792,29943,146,113,7,1012,22881,8591,1304,6,169,582,3257],"class_list":["post-673618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-browns","tag-afc-north","tag-baltimore","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-clevelandbrowns","tag-defensive-coordinator","tag-defensive-unit","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-football","tag-jim-harbaugh","tag-jim-schwartz","tag-kevin-stefanski","tag-myles-garrett","tag-nfl","tag-ravens","tag-the-browns","tag-tom-pelissero"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115886991846802838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}