In the 1988 movie Cocktail, Tom Cruise\u2019s character remarks that, \u201ceverything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn\u2019t end.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sentiment was on display Friday when the news came out that Jim Schwartz was resigning as defensive coordinator of the Cleveland Browns.<\/p>\n
It may have been inevitable, but there was still hope that Schwartz would be professional about being passed over as head coach of the Browns in favor of Todd Monken, and see the wisdom in fulfilling his contract with the team while also getting to coach NFL Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett, NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Carson Schwesinger, and the rest of a talent Cleveland defense.<\/p>\n
Instead, Schwartz took his defensive playbook and went home. It is disappointing, no doubt about that, and the Browns would be better with Schwartz running the defense than not. But general manager Andrew Berry correctly read the room in a way that Schwartz could not, saw that no other NFL team was willing to make Schwartz their head coach, and concluded there was no reason the Browns had to be the ones to make that mistake.<\/p>\n
So Schwartz is off to do whatever comes next, Monken gets to work on finding a defensive coordinator, and life moves on in Browns Town.<\/p>\n
It is the penultimate day before the final game of the NFL season, so let\u2019s getting rolling with the latest news about the Browns and the NFL in today\u2019s edition of the Saturday Dawg Chow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the 1988 movie Cocktail, Tom Cruise\u2019s character remarks that, \u201ceverything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn\u2019t end.\u201d That…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,1864,2337,9919,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-735615","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-news","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-daily-dawg-chow","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116029422869317302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735615","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=735615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}