The 2024 Philadelphia Eagles aren’t a carton of milk that has gone sour. Nothing will diminish the sweetness of their victory in Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9 for the team’s players and coaches.

But those Eagles don’t exist anymore, Philadelphia guard Landon Dickerson said.

“So it’s very simple, right?” Dickerson said on Thursday. “Every team has a one-year expiration. The 2024 Philadelphia Eagles were a great team. That team no longer exists, right? It’s in the history books. There’s guys still here, but that team is no longer together. It’s 2025 Philadelphia Eagles. Right now, we have accomplished nothing. We are zero and zero, and we’re here to work.”

The Eagles opened their training camp on Wednesday, and while 2024 is gone, 2025 retains something that could help Philadelphia in its quest for another NFL championship, Dickerson said.

“So the team changed, right?” Dickerson said. “The timeline, that year’s team’s gone. The people and the culture don’t change. I mean, I know the big thing like New Year’s is like ‘new year, new me’ or whatever it may be. The culture and the mindset of the players and the coaches and the staff here doesn’t change, right? So when these rookies, when these new guys come in, the guys we trade for or acquire, they pretty much have an option to buy into the culture or you’re not going to last around here. And I think that this group coming in is doing a tremendous job of buying into what it is.

“I mean, we’re going to have fun. We’re going to love each other. But there’s going to be some days that it sucks and it’s going to be hard, but, yeah, that’s just part of football.”

One thing definitely gone from the 2024 Eagles is the offensive coordinator. Kellen Moore left this offseason to become the head coach of the New Orleans Saints. Philadelphia promoted passing-game coordinator Kevin Patullo into the vacancy. He follows Shane Steichen, Brian Johnson and Moore as Dickerson’s offensive coordinators as he prepares for his fifth NFL season.

“Kevin’s been here for, I mean, since I’ve been here,” Dickerson said. “So having him come in, I know he’s quote-unquote new, but he’s been here. But it’s also figuring out the composition of this team. I know we have a lot of guys coming back. We lost some guys. But it’s figuring out the identity of this offense, what we’re going to be, what’s working for us and where we can make improvements from where we were in the past.”

That means the Philadelphia offense might turn out to be the Cat in the Hat, Thomas the Tank Engine or Clifford the Big Red Dog.

“Obviously, every coordinator is a little different in what they do,” Dickerson said. “Kevin, obviously I know new position, but he has been here. He’s familiar with these guys; players are familiar with him. And there’s a chemistry and a history there. It’s, and like I said earlier, it’s figuring out what this offense is going to be, what plays and what kind of scheme works best for us. And it may change week to week with who we’re playing. It’s going to change with availability of guys on Sunday. And yeah, really, that’s just the next couple of weeks is figuring out what this offense is going to be and how Kevin wants to call plays and kind of run his.

“Like the best way I can describe it is every offensive coordinator is kind of like a storyteller, like campfires. And everybody’s got kind of a little different story to tell and how they set up. And, you know, they’re kind of like a children’s book, right? You flip the page, a different story. There’s Dr. Seuss and all that stuff, but they all kind of tell a story differently. So that’s where we’re figuring things out, I mean, just by plays and formations and schemes and stuff, right? It’s setting things up. You know, do you want to do this with motions, all kinds of other stuff? I mean, like going from before, like with Shane to Brian Johnson to Kellen, like you see everybody, the offense is similar, but some things change a little bit. You know what I mean? I don’t really know a great way to describe this. Words are not helping me right now, but there you go.”

Dickerson earned Pro Bowl recognition for the third consecutive season in 2024 as Philadelphia’s left guard.

“I love football. I love these guys. I love competing,” Dickerson said. “I’ve said it before: The personal accolades, I really could care less about. I said it a few years ago, like, I would give up ever making a Pro Bowl to win a Super Bowl. Well, we won a Super Bowl. I mean, it’s the highest level. But at this point, it’s love of the game, loving the guys out here, and just loving competition.”

During Super Bowl LIX, Dickerson gained a level of attention that an offensive lineman usually receives only when his holding penalty nullifies a touchdown. The former Alabama All-American passed Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones to Philadelphia offensive tackle Jordan Mailata, then spun with his back to the play to stonewall linebacker Michael Danna’s rush up the middle.

“I actually hate that play,” Dickerson said. “I mean, as you guys kind of saw and probably knew going into the game, I had a bum knee, so moving was a little bit of an issue. But we also had some other injuries, so trying to play in that game and not force somebody else to go in when they weren’t ready. At that moment, doing the spin was actually the most efficient way since I was having some issues with the knee. I don’t really love the play. It’s ugly, but it worked.

“I kind of tell people it’s like a skydiver when you jump out of a plane. And you know, your first parachute doesn’t go, so you pull, like, an emergency parachute. And that was the emergency parachute.”

As the previous season’s champion, the Eagles will play in the first game of the NFL’s 2025 campaign. They will take on the Dallas Cowboys on Sept. 4 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

Before that, the Eagles have three preseason games – against the Cincinnati Bengals on Aug. 7, Cleveland Browns on Aug. 16 and New York Jets on Aug. 22.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.