As Brandon Graham walked from the visitors' locker room to the bus following the third preseason game at Indianapolis a few weeks back, Graham wanted to make a point about the Eagles' embrace of defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz's system.
"This defense is built for us. The people that's here, the personnel, and that's good . . . You don't have to have a down year to get the personnel here," Graham said. "For us, we've just been licking our chops and happy to be back into this type of defense."
That's an important part of the team talent level picture, as the Eagles switch gears from the brief Chip Kelly era, back to a West Coastish offense and a 4-3 defense, like they ran from 1999 to 2012.