{"id":686428,"date":"2026-01-18T13:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/686428\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T13:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:48:15","slug":"dc-jim-schwartz-to-browns-head-coach-what-to-make-of-swirling-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/686428\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Jim Schwartz to Browns head coach? What to make of swirling rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In professional sports, rumors are common. Oftentimes, rumors are debunked instantly by credible sources. There is an old saying, \u201cWhen there is smoke, there is fire.\u201d If signs are there that the rumor has some form of credibility behind it, it\u2019s more than likely that something is there. For the Cleveland Browns, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/cleveland-browns-coaching-staff\/115373\/browns-head-coach-search-tracker-updated\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a team that is searching for its next head coach<\/a>, the leaks are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/cleveland-browns-coaching-staff\/115484\/browns-head-coach-search-team-eliminates-a-candidate-from-their-list\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">starting to trickle out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Browns are putting in the work on their coaching search:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The second interview being set up has led to speculation that Schwartz could end up as the main man in charge of the Browns in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Three things can be said about these rumors:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">From an outsider\u2019s point of view, it\u2019s 50\/50 whether Schwartz becomes the HC of the Browns, but those who follow the team closely know for sure it\u2019s not the case here. During the season, many Browns fans wanted the team to fire former head coach Kevin Stefanski and make Schwartz the interim, but that never materialized due to the fact that the team had respect for Stefanski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Schwartz has a history of being a head coach, but the argument can be made that he\u2019s better suited as a coordinator than a head coach. This shouldn\u2019t be considered a knock against Schwartz, but there is a reason why he hasn\u2019t gotten any coaching interviews in the last couple of seasons despite leading an elite defense in Cleveland. If Schwartz doesn\u2019t get the head coaching gig, he could stay in Cleveland, and it has been reported that the team doesn\u2019t want to let him leave the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For now, the rumors behind Schwartz being the head coach of the team seem more like smoke, but with a little substance behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In professional sports, rumors are common. Oftentimes, rumors are debunked instantly by credible sources. There is an old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,89287,52261,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-686428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-cleveland-browns-coaching-staff","12":"tag-cleveland-browns-rumors","13":"tag-clevelandbrowns","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686428","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=686428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}