Lions Head Coach Jim Schwartz Building From The Ground Up

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    Jim Schwartz's coaching career began as a chauffeur. But even then, in 1993, Gil Brandt, the pioneering personnel man affectionately known as "The Godfather" around the NFL, knew this young Georgetown grad was headed in the right direction. "Schwartz? Oh, man, he was so far ahead of everybody it wasn't even funny," Brandt said Five years after graduating with an economics degree, Schwartz started earning his "Ph.D. in Footballology" as an unpaid intern hired by then-Browns coach Bill Belichick. "A brilliant guy," Belichick says now. "You could give him 10 different things to do, and come to him at any point in time, and say, 'Where are we on this?' and he'd have it for you in a second."

    Source: The Detroit News