Shemar Stewart on Making Bengals Preseason Debut

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00:00I thought it went pretty well, considering everything, you know.

00:07Today was good.

00:09Made a mistake here and there, but overall, pretty good day.

00:13Pretty good day.

00:14How happy were you, Shamar, that you were able to get in on a lot of different situations

00:18and also play all over the defensive line, it seemed?

00:23It was felt good, you know.

00:25I feel like I'm getting the playbook down.

00:27Everything's slowing down a little bit for me, you know.

00:29But the first couple days out here, it was kind of like my mind was in a blender.

00:32But now I feel pretty good.

00:34How do you feel from a conditioning standpoint?

00:36Do you still feel like you have a ways to go,

00:38or do you feel pretty comfortable where you're at from a conditioning standpoint?

00:41I don't feel that bad, actually.

00:43I feel pretty good, you know.

00:44Given that someone's an out, but today I feel pretty good.

00:48Shamar, it seemed like you had a lot of moments where you were able to make an impact

00:52or almost make an impact.

00:53Is that encouraging for you in this game?

00:56I mean, of course, you know.

00:57You've got to build yourself up sometimes.

00:59You know, we've got to take every little win you get.

01:01So, hopefully next time, next week, I probably could get there faster, a little bit.

01:06Did you have a moment when you kind of had to settle in and, you know,

01:10first couple of, you know, first snap in the pros,

01:13or did you take a minute to settle in, or were you good from the get-go?

01:19Oh, I think I was pretty good from the get-go.

01:24It wasn't too bad.

01:26I mean, but then if I wasn't ready to go for the first snap, after I got hit on the first snap,

01:30I was ready to go.

01:31So, you know, just got to get pushing him out a little bit.

01:34Tell us a little bit about that tackle, I think, on A.J. Dillon.

01:39Seemed like you crashed in from the edge and had a really nice loss there.

01:43I think I felt it more than he felt it.

01:46Like, he's a big boy.

01:47So, I got up my collarbone, everything in my shoulders was hurting.

01:52I don't know if he felt anything.

01:54He got up and just walked away.

01:55Is it a noticeable difference between practice and a game, even on the preseason level?

02:01Oh, yeah, for sure.

02:02I mean, in practice, you know, everybody knows it's not, like, 100% to the ground.

02:06So, now, like, you could just tag off with somebody and you could just play could be over.

02:11But now you're, like, people are going to try to make you miss.

02:14People are going to try to run through your face.

02:15So, you've got to be ready, you know, like, you've got to bring it.

02:19We saw Trey Hendrickson talking to plenty of the guys up front.

02:21Did you have any conversations with him after coming off the field?

02:24Oh, yeah.

02:25The player where I almost had a sack, he was talking to me about, you know,

02:29how to finish a sack, to play a little bit faster, hopefully get in there next time.

02:33What was that advice that he gave you?

02:37He just gave me another move.

02:39He recommended me a move to use next time.

02:42Just how much more comfortable do you feel in this entire operation now, obviously,

02:47a week or so into training camp practices and with a preseason game under your belt?

02:52I feel a lot more comfortable, you know.

02:55You know, the playbook is just slowing down for me.

02:57The gameplay is slowing down for me, you know.

02:59I feel like that's always good.

03:01You know, my first couple days here, everything was just, like, flying bullets.

03:05So, I was, like, trying to, like, I had, like, kind of, like, a lock in.

03:09So, but today was a lot better.

03:11Probably one of the best days so far.

03:12You mentioned your shoulder feeling okay now.

03:15Oh, yeah, I'm great, but in the moment, I feel like hitting, like, hitting a brick wall.

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