Shemar Stewart Remains Unsigned with Bengals After Minicamp

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00:00Mandatory minicamp this week around the National Football League has really come to a close.

00:05It's about to be summer break around the NFL, about a month plus off,

00:09before the players and teams return for training camp late in July.

00:14And DRS, we brought you this update yesterday, but let's really fully flesh this out in Cincinnati.

00:20Since he's unsigned first-round draft pick, Shamar Stewart, taking 17th overall,

00:25now has left mandatory minicamp, per a source to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

00:31Stewart had been attending team activities, but without a signed rookie contract,

00:36was not participating, and with the Bengals asking for certain default clauses,

00:40no longer was Shamar Stewart even in attendance at mandatory minicamp.

00:46Let's hear what the head coach in Cincinnati, not a front office individual,

00:50but with the head coach, Zach Taylor had to say all about it.

00:53What is the latest on Shamar, and why wasn't he?

00:56Yeah, he wasn't here today, so we just focused on the guys that were here.

00:59What have the conversations been like with him?

01:01He and I have had positive conversations.

01:05Did he communicate with you before he left?

01:07Did you guys, was there a conversation with him?

01:09He did. We've had good communication.

01:11Zach, is it a big deal? He's missed out on on-field reps?

01:14I think for all the rookies, you'd like them to be on the field,

01:16but certainly there's things that happen over the course of an NFL career,

01:20and this is one of them right now, so he's been in the meetings.

01:24He's been positive in that way.

01:25He's been learning. He's been a good learner,

01:27and we look forward to getting him back on the field quickly.

01:29This is obviously a first for you when it comes to a first-round pick.

01:33How have you navigated the water?

01:35There's a first for everything.

01:36Every year you kind of learn something new in this position,

01:40and this is just one of those things that the players have managed really well,

01:43and we keep the team moving,

01:44and when he jumps on the field, that'll be great for our team.

01:47Zach, Taylor had all the right things to say, DRS,

01:51but he's not the guy negotiating with Shamar Stewart's representation,

01:55asking for a default clause that would negate guaranteed money based on injury.

02:00So what exactly is Zach Taylor supposed to say?

02:02What do you make of the head coach in Cincinnati?

02:05Here's the funny part about Cincinnati.

02:07If you're a head coach there, you're on the coaching staff,

02:09you're actually in a pretty good spot at that point.

02:10The reason I bring this up, like Marvin Lewis,

02:12who coached there I think 15, 16, 17 years,

02:15he was there a long time, didn't end up winning any Super Bowls,

02:17but the joke used to always be like,

02:19well, they're not going to fire Marvin Lewis because they owe him two more years.

02:22Like most NFL teams operate like, I'm going to fire you right now.

02:24Like the New York Knicks, Tom Thibodeau's owed 30 plus million dollars.

02:27So what? I think we get a better coach,

02:28write him a check and be out of there.

02:30Like you have such great, you know, coaching acumen,

02:32where if you have more than one year left on your deal,

02:34it's like, we can't fire this guy.

02:35We're not going to pay a whole new coaching staff an extra year of salary.

02:38So let's get that out of the way.

02:39Like I usually would say, oh, I pity Zach Taylor.

02:41Now he's in a good spot because they'll never fire him

02:43until he's like at the end of his contract.

02:45And what player slash owner slash, you know,

02:49coach is going to go into that year of being like,

02:50I'm a lame duck coach here.

02:51It usually doesn't happen.

02:53Let's focus on this.

02:54You know what Zach Taylor said there?

02:55Like, yeah, we joke about it.

02:56Like this idiot Brown,

02:58the ownership group and his whole family over there.

02:59They have no idea what you're doing, kid.

03:00I got your back.

03:01Like if I go back to the Buddy Ryan era days,

03:03where we had a terrible owner in Norman Brayman,

03:06who all these bottom line Brayman here,

03:08some of the best superstars in the sport.

03:10I'm not paying those guys the minute free agents here.

03:11They're all going to walk out of the door.

03:13So what Buddy Ryan used to do to get upset

03:15was when Keith Jackson with a new contract

03:16and it was big and broad, he'd call the owner names.

03:19Then when they'd eventually sign the guy,

03:20he'd pick him up at the, you know,

03:22the airport in a limo and really show up the owner.

03:24Like, thank goodness, this guy's back here.

03:26You bozo, we need this guy.

03:27It's unbelievable.

03:28Like I understand how coaches have to play

03:29to the PC and the press.

03:31It's just what we do here.

03:32But you know, those conversations,

03:33hey kid, man, hold strong out there.

03:35I know you'll be in here.

03:36It's not your fault at all.

03:37Trust me, kid.

03:38We love you.

03:38We drafted you.

03:39We want you on the field.

03:40Just that our ownership group is a bunch of bozos.

03:43You know what?

03:44We vient to be able to God

03:45to hear and hear.

03:47We can't do it.

03:47Don't pay it.

03:48Don't give up, we'll get it well.

03:49Don't pay it.

03:49Don't payốt day.

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