During the Philadelphia Eagles' run to the Super Bowl last season, one of the components of their success, most observers believed, was that the team exuded strong chemistry and a healthy locker room.
Of course, the locker room is a happier place when things are going well and you're racking up blowout wins week after week, like the 2017 Eagles did. In 2018, after a 2-3 start, the Eagles are perhaps experiencing their first taste of in-house-discord-made-public in quite some time.
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During the week of practice leading up to the Eagles' matchup against the Minnesota Vikings, Doug Pederson decided to bench LG Stefen Wisniewski in favor of third-year pro Isaac Seumalo. That decision did not sit well with Wisniewski, who suggested that the move was not one that was performance-based.
Pederson disagreed that Wisniewski's benching was anything other than a performance issue.
"As a staff, sometimes you evaluate all your players, and if you need to make a change, you make a change," he said. "We feel comfortable with Isaac making the start this week.
"I have no idea what the other theory would be, because everything in this business is performance-based."
So, there's left guard drama.
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