At 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz saw an offensive player in the team cafeteria wearing a sleeveless shirt. Coach Doug Pederson has a rule that forbids players from wearing sleeveless shirts in the cafeteria. So Schwartz tapped that player and told him he needed to go get sleeves. Schwartz isn’t the head coach, but he felt the responsibility to enforce Pederson’s rules.
Schwartz told this story while responding to a Sunday Inquirer story that cited three players who requested anonymity who said it is common knowledge in the locker room that Schwartz is waiting to usurp power and an Eagles staffer who said Pederson is probably the only coach who doesn’t think Schwartz is trying to undercut him.