Former Cleveland Browns defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, who resigned from his position in February after being passed over for Cleveland’s head coaching job, explained his decision to step down.
“They passed over me, with all the success that we had and the ability to develop players, our best players had their best years, all those different things. And that was a decision they made,” Schwartz told the “Ryan Ripken Show” on Tuesday. “They wanted to go with an offensive guy. They chose Todd [Monken]. I’m fine with that. They can make decisions that they want to make, but they can’t expect me to stay on board for that.
“Anybody that’s in any business, you get passed over for a promotion when you’ve done a really, really good job in your job and you think you were in line for that promotion, it’s time to go. And Todd deserved his own guy. A forced marriage isn’t going to work in the NFL.”
Schwartz, 60, spent the past three seasons as the Browns’ defensive coordinator and was one of the finalists to replace Kevin Stefanski as head coach after he was fired.