Lions Coach Jim Schwartz Dissatisfied With His Team After Loss Vs Browns

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Lions coach Jim Schwartz was in regular season form after his team's preseason loss against the Cleveland Browns on Friday. Schwartz just wished his players were in regular season form, too. Cleveland defeated Detroit, 19-17, in the preseason opener in front of an announced crowd of 58,933 fans at Ford Field, and Schwartz struggled to find anything positive to say about his team after that game. "Let's be clear," Schwartz said. "Preseason games, we don't use them as a barometer, and they don't count, but you want to play well. Win or lose, you want to play well, and I don't think we played well. I don't we played well on offense, defense, special teams. From the beginning to the very end, we had a chance. Even though we weren't playing real well, we made a couple of plays, had the lead, and had a chance to put a team away. There's something be said for that in a preseason game and in accomplishing that. There's a lot of different things that go on. You're playing starters at different times; different guys are going in the game, and everything else. Let's not read too much into wins or loses. Win or lose, we want to play well. We want to respond in certain situations, and we didn't do that (last night)."

Source: MLive.com