{"id":696182,"date":"2026-01-22T11:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/696182\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:42:36","slug":"jim-schwartz-gets-second-interview-for-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/696182\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Schwartz gets second interview for Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz had a second interview with the Cleveland Browns for their head coaching vacancy on Monday.<\/p>\n

Schwartz is the first candidate to have a second interview with the Browns. He was the first to interview for the opening on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n

The 59-year old Schwartz has been the architect of one of the league\u2019s top defenses the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

Cleveland led the league in total defense in 2023 and ranked fourth this season as Myles Garrett had 23 sacks and broke the NFL single-season record.<\/p>\n

Schwartz has head coaching experience, leading the Detroit Lions from 2009 through 2013. He had 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

Cleveland needs a head coach after it\u00a0fired Kevin Stefanski<\/a>\u00a0on Jan. 5 following six seasons and a 46-58 overall record. Stefanski was a two-time AP NFL Coach of the Year and led the Browns to the playoffs in 2020 and \u201923.<\/p>\n

The Browns were 5-12 this past season and 8-26 the past two years.<\/p>\n

Baltimore offensive coordinator Todd Monken, who was the Browns offensive coordinator in 2019, is expected to get a second interview on Tuesday. his first session with the Browns was on Jan. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz had a second interview with the Cleveland Browns for their head coaching vacancy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[1615,1613,2910,228,227,256,2296,85,7,88,6,996,31515,1614,9,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-696182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnati","13":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","14":"tag-cincinnatibengals","15":"tag-cleveland","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-ohio","20":"tag-ohio-cleveland-browns","21":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115938574200686261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696182","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=696182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}