It wasn’t exactly Black Wednesday when the Eagles reduced by two the number of returning veterans with the release of guard Allen Barbre and defensive end Marcus Smith, but it was an interesting peek into the organizational mindset for the coming season.
If player personnel boss Howie Roseman were going to swing through the roster with a hot scythe, creating cap room by eliminating every underachiever or every player whose best days might have been reached, there would have been a lot more faces missing when the vets began to trickle in before the full squad begins practicing on Thursday.