Mike Florio

I got a lot of problems with you people.

No, you're going to hear about it.

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Yeah, it's been crazy, and we were actually live this week at noon Eastern every day just because we didn't want to start at 4 a.m.

Pacific time.

So it's been a crazy week, and now we've transitioned to full-blown Super Bowl pregame show preparation mode.

Well, I'm not surprised.

It felt destined that Jim Schwartz wasn't going to be there after Todd Munkin got the head coaching job when Schwartz was one of the finalists.

It was immediately reported that Schwartz was livid, and he was saying he's not coming back.

They went through an awkward tug-of-war for a few days, maybe a full week, trying to figure out what was going to happen next.

And the way it was reported by NFL Network, he's resigning with the expectation he won't coach in 2026.

That suggests to me there was some sort of a negotiated compromise where maybe they'll pay him

for this year and he won't go become a defensive coordinator with another team until next year because if you're under contract and he was for one more year you can't just quit and go coach another team they held his rights he didn't want to stay with the Browns and I think Todd Munkin when you've got a guy that was that close to being the head coach I don't think you want Munkin to be or Munkin doesn't want Schwartz to be the defensive coordinator

because then that just undermines him.

It makes it harder for him to have any authority in the locker room.

The defense could line up behind Schwartz.

The offense could line up behind Munkin, and you could have more dysfunction in Cleveland, which has kind of been the name of the game for the past several years in Cleveland.

So I'm not surprised by the outcome.

I'm a little surprised Schwartz isn't going to be able to coach anywhere else this year.

The Raiders had emerged as a potential destination for Schwartz.