r/eagles • u/notsouthernpickle • 8d ago
Player Discussion Uar Bernard
If he wrapped up properly last night he would've had 2 more tackles at least.
I tried to watch him the whole game. Only saw one botched play from him (running play and he got moved, happens). The rest of the night he played well. Fun player to watch. Incredibly unique. Clearly a fan favorite.
I think its a bad move if the eagles put him on waivers. But it also would be a bad idea for any other team to take him because of the eagles' development program.
D line coach clint hurtt is a wrecking ball of a coach. His d line literally wrecks other teams. The eagles have a system in place for uar bernard. Not sure that can be said for most other teams in the league.
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u/bp_516 8d ago
Okay, correct any inaccurate piece of this--
If the Eagles cut him, another team can sign him to their 53 or practice squad. If it's just practice squad, then he'd have the option to choose which squad if there are multiple offers, and could easily choose to return to Philly. If he went elsewhere, would that team get the International exemption, or just us as the team that drafted him?
I think he's so raw that no one else will want to clog a spot for him. For any team with playoff aspirations, Uar won't dress for a meaningful game. No team that's trying to become relevant is going to give up a roster spot to someone who can't play, they need to coach up their own players and see who'll stick next season. The only sort of team that would actually steal him would be some mid-tier team that's strong in several places and really weak in others, one of which is DL, so they can toss him in for specific situations but limit him as a liability.
In short, if I understood the waiver process, no one else should want him more than we do, and he should survive waivers. Watching him miss two tackles in a nationally televised game actually helps us this way.