8/13/25: The Afternoon Training Camp Report

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
One more check in on the Ray Saint Clair Roofing
Hotline with our guy Tony Pike, who has been at
the Evenue originally known as Paul Brown Stadium all day long.
I guess the headliner of the day with Shamar Stewart.
Now we could tell him, look, man, you can't touch
the merchandise, you can't hurt Joe Burrow, ratchet it back
just a little bit. But man, I'll tell you what
it was impossible to ignore how effective he was and

(00:23):
how disruptive he was.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
No, and I think he's shown that consistently throughout his
opportunities at training camp, though, I think they at this
point you have to feel really good about the player
you got at number seventeen. With what he's able to
do on the field. We're now seeing him involved in
some stunts. They're changing up what he's able to do
and not do out there on the field a little
bit more. He's clearly reaking havoc. And to set the

(00:47):
record because I know there's a lot of back and forth,
I don't blame Shamar Stewart at all today for getting
in the lap of Joe Burrow. He was losing his balance.
Lucas Patrick pushed him, he fell into Joe Burrow. Is
it unfortunate? Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Do you want to lay off? Absolutely? But if I've
got a field of eleven guys that pushed the envelope,
I'd like that a lot more than guys that are
timid or guys that don't have intensity. We have been
asking for someone on defense to play with a chip
on their shoulder, someone to play with a little bit
of an edge, and we are seeing that from Shamar

(01:20):
Stewart at practice. I don't think we should disparage that.
I think we have a teaching moment and say, hey,
you can't touch him, don't get in the vicinity, but
also don't stop doing what you're doing.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
At this point, Shamar Stewart was the headliner, But I
thought is does we can dwell on how poorly the
offense performed and how bad the offensive line was. Today
was a win for Al Golden. I'm giving him the
D back at least for today.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
I like that he receives the D back in his
last name. Now, Friday, we'll see what happens because everyone
knows how bad it was for the O line today,
so we'll see what happens Friday. But look, they showed
a little bit more today. They showed some stunts, they
showed a couple pressures. They're doing things that you want
a defense to be able to do. And I think
Austin made a good point earlier as well. They tried

(02:05):
the base defense. Then they tried to allow players to
win one on one battles, and in the first opportunity
they couldn't. So now, as a decoordinator, maybe you've got
a scheme ways around being able to help your guys out.
And I think today was the first we've really seen
of that of mixing different looks up on the line,
giving a quarterback different variables that he's got to deal with.
And if you take today for an example, the defense

(02:28):
they succeeded in that they won the day against the
first team offense for the Bengals.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Tony Pike joins us on the Ray Saint Claire Roofing Hotline.
He is back for since e three to sixty tomorrow
at noon, and he and I returned together on the
eighty Door and Window Tony and Moode Training Camp show
Friday morning at ten o'clock from Bengals Training Camp. Our
show is over. We're done. Tomorrow. In the show, Heidi
Watney is going to be on the program, first time
I've ever called the show a program. She's with Apple TV.

(02:54):
She's on Red's Brewers this weekend. Also Chaid Brendel on
the Bearcats, more from Tony Pike, and we'll talk about
Hunter Green's return tonight, which is mere minutes away. Thanks
to Taran Bland for producing. Thanks to you for listening.
We're back tomorrow at three oh five. Have a great night.
This is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati sports station.