Thursday's visit with the Cleveland Browns will be the Eagles' third preseason game, which is generally the most important every year because it's the game in which the starters play the most.
Defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz turned that significance up a notch Tuesday, when Schwartz indicated that performances in Cleveland will go a long way toward deciding his two big remaining position battles – who gets the nickel corner role, and who starts at weakside linebacker.
"We're still a work in progress," Schwartz said when asked about the nickel, where Sidney Jones and De'Vante Bausby spent much of training camp competing against each other, with fourth-round rookie Avonte Maddox making a late bid.