It all begins on Sunday when the coaching staff reports to the NovaCare Complex and fine-tunes what is to come next: 42 days and nights of Training Camp and preseason preparations before Labor Day arrives and all attention turns toward the September 11 opener at Detroit. If 42 days and nights seem like a lot, then you’ve never been through this before. It flies past, and the teams that prepare the best maximize the time to put together the best 53-man active roster, along with a practice squad and a lengthy emergency list to gird for the marathon of a 17-game regular season.
Welcome to Training Camp, 2022, and it just couldn’t get here fast enough. The players report on Tuesday and take physicals and then the player conditioning test before the meetings – team, special teams, offense, and defense – begin.
On Wednesday, the Eagles hold their first practice in the morning and then have a walkthrough in the afternoon as camp kicks into gear and doesn’t let up a whole lot until early September. Included are joint practices at Cleveland and Miami, respectively, before those preseason games.
“You have to come in ready to be at your best every day,” linebacker Haason Reddick said. “So, how we handle the time after the OTAs in the spring, that’s an important time. You have to take it seriously because when camp opens, it’s time to go.”
Ninety players is a roster maximum and that gets whittled to 53 in late August and that, along with continuing to install the schemes in all three phases of the game, is the focal point of the next six weeks – finding the best 53. The Eagles have transformed the roster through the course of the last two years and now have a promising blend of youth and experience.
It’s quiet now at the NovaCare Complex. It’s not going to last. In only a few days, the 2022 Training Camp begins. It feels like we’ve waited a long, long time to get to this point.
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