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Shemar Stewart Remains Unsigned with Bengals After Minicamp
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6/13/2025
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Mandatory minicamp this week around the National Football League has really come to a close.
00:05
It's about to be summer break around the NFL, about a month plus off,
00:09
before the players and teams return for training camp late in July.
00:14
And DRS, we brought you this update yesterday, but let's really fully flesh this out in Cincinnati.
00:20
Since he's unsigned first-round draft pick, Shamar Stewart, taking 17th overall,
00:25
now has left mandatory minicamp, per a source to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
00:31
Stewart had been attending team activities, but without a signed rookie contract,
00:36
was not participating, and with the Bengals asking for certain default clauses,
00:40
no longer was Shamar Stewart even in attendance at mandatory minicamp.
00:46
Let's hear what the head coach in Cincinnati, not a front office individual,
00:50
but with the head coach, Zach Taylor had to say all about it.
00:53
What is the latest on Shamar, and why wasn't he?
00:56
Yeah, he wasn't here today, so we just focused on the guys that were here.
00:59
What have the conversations been like with him?
01:01
He and I have had positive conversations.
01:05
Did he communicate with you before he left?
01:07
Did you guys, was there a conversation with him?
01:09
He did. We've had good communication.
01:11
Zach, is it a big deal? He's missed out on on-field reps?
01:14
I think for all the rookies, you'd like them to be on the field,
01:16
but certainly there's things that happen over the course of an NFL career,
01:20
and this is one of them right now, so he's been in the meetings.
01:24
He's been positive in that way.
01:25
He's been learning. He's been a good learner,
01:27
and we look forward to getting him back on the field quickly.
01:29
This is obviously a first for you when it comes to a first-round pick.
01:33
How have you navigated the water?
01:35
There's a first for everything.
01:36
Every year you kind of learn something new in this position,
01:40
and this is just one of those things that the players have managed really well,
01:43
and we keep the team moving,
01:44
and when he jumps on the field, that'll be great for our team.
01:47
Zach, Taylor had all the right things to say, DRS,
01:51
but he's not the guy negotiating with Shamar Stewart's representation,
01:55
asking for a default clause that would negate guaranteed money based on injury.
02:00
So what exactly is Zach Taylor supposed to say?
02:02
What do you make of the head coach in Cincinnati?
02:05
Here's the funny part about Cincinnati.
02:07
If you're a head coach there, you're on the coaching staff,
02:09
you're actually in a pretty good spot at that point.
02:10
The reason I bring this up, like Marvin Lewis,
02:12
who coached there I think 15, 16, 17 years,
02:15
he was there a long time, didn't end up winning any Super Bowls,
02:17
but the joke used to always be like,
02:19
well, they're not going to fire Marvin Lewis because they owe him two more years.
02:22
Like most NFL teams operate like, I'm going to fire you right now.
02:24
Like the New York Knicks, Tom Thibodeau's owed 30 plus million dollars.
02:27
So what? I think we get a better coach,
02:28
write him a check and be out of there.
02:30
Like you have such great, you know, coaching acumen,
02:32
where if you have more than one year left on your deal,
02:34
it's like, we can't fire this guy.
02:35
We're not going to pay a whole new coaching staff an extra year of salary.
02:38
So let's get that out of the way.
02:39
Like I usually would say, oh, I pity Zach Taylor.
02:41
Now he's in a good spot because they'll never fire him
02:43
until he's like at the end of his contract.
02:45
And what player slash owner slash, you know,
02:49
coach is going to go into that year of being like,
02:50
I'm a lame duck coach here.
02:51
It usually doesn't happen.
02:53
Let's focus on this.
02:54
You know what Zach Taylor said there?
02:55
Like, yeah, we joke about it.
02:56
Like this idiot Brown,
02:58
the ownership group and his whole family over there.
02:59
They have no idea what you're doing, kid.
03:00
I got your back.
03:01
Like if I go back to the Buddy Ryan era days,
03:03
where we had a terrible owner in Norman Brayman,
03:06
who all these bottom line Brayman here,
03:08
some of the best superstars in the sport.
03:10
I'm not paying those guys the minute free agents here.
03:11
They're all going to walk out of the door.
03:13
So what Buddy Ryan used to do to get upset
03:15
was when Keith Jackson with a new contract
03:16
and it was big and broad, he'd call the owner names.
03:19
Then when they'd eventually sign the guy,
03:20
he'd pick him up at the, you know,
03:22
the airport in a limo and really show up the owner.
03:24
Like, thank goodness, this guy's back here.
03:26
You bozo, we need this guy.
03:27
It's unbelievable.
03:28
Like I understand how coaches have to play
03:29
to the PC and the press.
03:31
It's just what we do here.
03:32
But you know, those conversations,
03:33
hey kid, man, hold strong out there.
03:35
I know you'll be in here.
03:36
It's not your fault at all.
03:37
Trust me, kid.
03:38
We love you.
03:38
We drafted you.
03:39
We want you on the field.
03:40
Just that our ownership group is a bunch of bozos.
03:43
You know what?
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We vient to be able to God
03:45
to hear and hear.
03:47
We can't do it.
03:47
Don't pay it.
03:48
Don't give up, we'll get it well.
03:49
Don't pay it.
03:49
Don't payốt day.
03:50
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