Press Pass: Jim Schwartz

we expect our guys to play wide open. We don't expect them to conserve any energy. UM. And that's a very very difficult thing to do. It's hard to rush to pass or it's hard to play the run. You got seven hundred pounds of guys pushing on you on every play in the run game, you have contact on

every single play. Just makes sense for us if we're gonna play that way to UM, you know, to have a good rotation, we have to trust the rotational players that they're going to go in and perform at a high level m regardless of when their ass But I've always compared it to UM, you know, the bullpen in baseball. You know, it's hard if you're a starter and you're

pacing yourself. Um, there's not many guys that can guess at one hundred miles an hour, you're coming out of bullpen, you're throwing an inning, you can heat it up pretty good, and um, you know, we want to just keep rolling fresh bodies out there, have the backup guys. Earn. It's preseason. UM, I like where we're I like where we're trending, and I think that you know, I think you saw some Um, you saw some signs of that, but nothing matters until we get to the season. So um, you know, well,

well we'll see. But you know they've been trending the right way in preseason and practice, but that doesn't matter right now. You know, we were in a situation. UM, I think the development of Jalen Mills had a lot to do with it. You know, Jalen was a seventh round pick and really exceeded our expectations and probably anybody's

expectations for him. We're looking at a situation we're gonna have four corners active m Jalen has played some nickel Forrest also that really wasn't on Eric's played, Eric worked really hard and UM, you know did everything we asked from him. We certainly wish him the best, but um in our personnel decided to, um, you know, use him as an asset. And you know, as coaches, we just deal with that and keep playing the safety. You know. That's that's been you know, sort of a thought that

was tried last year. UM. And I think he's a corner. The schematic changes. Um, did you ask him to press more than he typically had? No, he's he's a good press corner. I mean that's what his that's what his strengths are. UM. You know, schematically, all those guys have taken to it. So you are kind of short a corner him. I mean, can you sustain a well? I mean I want a game by game basis. We're not short. But like you said, UM, you know, we'll see how

the season goes. I mean, there's it doesn't matter any position you think you're deep at, it's going to come a time where you're where you're shocked at how thin you are. And UM, you know, sometimes you're able to get through injuries or part of this game. UM. You know we're a little bit thin right now, not for me a game basis. We'll be fine for Sunday. I mean, there's only so many guys you can take active into

the game. UM. But depth becomes certainly important as the season goes on and um and as injuries and other situations come to light. Carson Wentz's first start not be something where he has to be superman. UM. I don't know. I think I don't know that we really look at it that way. As defense, you know, our job is

to go stop the opponent. UM. You know, not to you know, not to take anything else or not not to carry any other other flag other than going out and stopping RG three and stopping Prior and Joe Thomas and Barnage. I mean, they have some good players on offense, and we're going to play our very best to stop those guys and get off the field on third down, create negative plays, create turnovers. Um. You know, if we're getting off the field on third down, if we're creating turnovers,

that's certainly going to help our offense. You know, I think I go back to the same thing with the preseason. It's hard to read too much into the preseason positive or negative. Um. You know, a lot of guys taking different approaches in preseason. Coaches take different approaches in pete preseason.

The proof is going to be the regular season, and we're only you know, we're not to the first game yet, so that story really hasn't been written yet, to tell you the truth came back from his Hampshire injury and it is a role going to change any well, everybody's role is sort of fluid, you know, depending on how their plan, depending on injuries at other positions, depending on

the opponent. UM, but you're asked to do one week isn't necessarily what you're going to be abs to do every week, because you're going to tailor a plan for a specific opponent. UM. He stayed active in the defense when his um when he was hurt, which is difficult to do. But he's a veteran player, a young veteran player. UM. You know, was that you know, we we played him a little bit in the preseason, UM, particularly late in some of those games, just to get him some playtime

because he had missed so much time. UM, you know, early on in training camp. I think that helped him, you know, to see two veteran guys out there like Tulloch and h and Kendrick in the fourth preseason game. But both of those guys needed that work. Both of them needed to, you know, get a little closer to game shape because they had missed so much time. Linebacker. Um, we had a lot of different packages at linebacker. Um. We have four linebacker packages. We have three linebacker nickel,

we have three linebacker base. Um. You know, we have different nickel sets, we have different dyme packages. Each guy has a little different purpose in all of those, so you'll see a lot of packages with different linebackers on the field. The rotation kind of didn't allow him to get in a rhythm. Do you have to take that an account too, that a rotation could negatively affect some of these guys. Yeah. I mean I wasn't here last year, so I really don't know. Um, you know how that

played out. But you know, I view I view using guys with their particular talents as a positive. I view keeping guys fresh over the course of a season and over the course of the game as a positive. You know, it's up to players to perform the biggest challenge that the Browns offense presents. UM. You know, I think first you got to start with some of the readoption stuff that they do, you know, and we expect him to run a lot. They ran some of it in the preseason.

He had a couple of big gainers in the preseason. So you have to account for the quarterback. You know, they they're very good at taking deep shots. You saw that in the preseason. You know prior Gordon stopped playing in this game, but he made a couple of plays for him. It's that's what their offense is. Um. They run a lot of unbalanced line. They run a lot of extra offensive lineman at tight ends to try to

assist their running game. Um. You know, those are all challenges for us defensively in things that we're gonna have to work very hard to stop. Your defense led it in rushing at points, in interceptions. What was in preseason. But can the confidence that your players will get from that, can that carry over into a week one? Where do you think it's a complete clean slate and it really doesn't matter. I just o my bio. Does this say anything about preseason stats anywhere? Yeah? I don't carry those

with me, man Um. I think it goes to what we talked about with the defensive with the defensive line, and what we saw from some of those guys. Yeah, there's positive signs. Yeah, I think we we we show them signs that we can execute the schemes and we're trending in the right direction. But you know, you know,

let's not let's not start getting ahead of ourselves. We got a lot of work to do and it's a long season, and how we perform, there's there's going to be no asterists and say, yeah they were you know, they were crappy this year, but they played really good in the preseason. I mean, you any you guys going to write that, I'm not going I'm not gonna put that on my wall. Believe me to somebody. Somebody else

was over here, all right, not a whole lot. He's he's really good on film, and um, he continues to be really good players. A difficult matchup one on one. I plays to run well, places to pass well. Um. You know, there's a reason we gave him all that money. It's not because he fits up, you know, a certain scheme or anything else. He's just a really good players.

Out about Carson Wentz working opposite of him, and have you noticed anything developmental wise in the months since he was acquired, and I'm just trying to form my own land. Let me, let me just let me just stay with the defense. I think, I go. I think we can help any quarterback by keeping the score down. We can help any quarterback by giving them good field position. We can help any quarterback by giving them the ball back, whether it's a third down stop or red zone stop,

you know, whatever it is. And you know, I think that's the part that we're going to play. We need to worry about our own selves, and we need to worry about stopping the opponent and not really worry about too much of what's happening on the other side of the ball. There's always going to be things. We'll score points, we might turn the ball over. Our jobs to go

out and get them stopped, regardless of what happens. But are you ever brought into the conversation with Dougall come to you and say this is what I want you to throw at Ed Carson this week versus last week, etc. Now we talk about a lot of things as the staff. You know, Um, I don't. I don't want to. I don't think it's right to talk about any of those things in this in this setting. Ye that is part

of their job. They need to be tone setters, and that's one of the reasons we need those guys playing wide open. You know, they have to be their mode has to be running every play from a pursuit standpoint, stopping the run, creating negative plays, getting after the password. It's a very difficult thing to do. Um, but when we're playing well, that'll be the engine that that that'll keep us going