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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.
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