{"id":680180,"date":"2026-01-15T21:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/680180\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:15:38","slug":"five-things-to-know-about-jim-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/680180\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things to Know About Jim Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n He learned under some of the greatest names in football.<\/p>\n

Before he coached in the NFL, Schwartz began his journey in the league as a college\/pro scout for the Cleveland Browns for three years (1993-1995).<\/p>\n

It was in Cleveland that he had a front-row seat to watch who would become two of the greatest coaches of all time: Bill Belichick and Nick Saban.<\/p>\n

“I would say I got a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown, but I got a Ph.D. in football-ology from Bill Belichick,” Schwartz said in 2014, per ESPN<\/a>. “And that’s the thing that’s probably guided my career the most, is the time I spent with him in Cleveland.”<\/p>\n

Schwartz also worked with Ravens Executive Vice President Ozzie Newsome while the two were in Cleveland. At the time, Newsome’s title was assistant to the head coach\/offense\/pro personnel before being promoted to Director of Player Personnel. Newsome said Schwartz’s skill set was a great fit for the ambiguity of his role.<\/p>\n

“Well, he could multitask,” Newsome said of Schwartz, per the Akron Beacon Journal<\/a>. “He also was very, very good from a detail standpoint.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He learned under some of the greatest names in football. Before he coached in the NFL, Schwartz began…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,7,781,891,20472,20847,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-680180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-general","14":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","15":"tag-inline-news","16":"tag-justin-robertson","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115901191233585963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680180","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=680180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}