The first thing you see is the trash bags. For a usual clean-out day in the Eagles' locker room at the NovaCare Complex, the trash bags and the boxes and the stacks of shoes steal the show. Players clean out their lockers and store their keepsakes and give away everything else and, well, it’s a depressing day. You know that the locker room, as the team departs following what is usually a crushing postseason loss or a win/loss that marks a non-playoff season, will never again be the same.
But that’s not how it felt on Wednesday as the Eagles went through the end-of-season routine – meeting as a team, meeting with position coaches, sitting in with head coach Doug Pederson and taking their year-end physicals.