By Kevin Durso, Sports Talk Philly editor 
It's been quite a hiatus for the Eagles, somewhat of a mini bye week with their last game coming on Thursday night. One game remains on their schedule on Sunday, which holds little meaning at this point.
The Eagles, at best, are playing for draft position, and not in the first round mind you, while the Cowboys are safely locked into the top spot in the NFC.
That being said, the real work for the Eagles comes after Sunday's game and a few weeks down the road when the NFL offseason begins following the Super Bowl. And it's going to need to be a big one for the Birds.
If you want to look at the Eagles future, you could say they have it figured out at quarterback, have a very solid leader at linebacker and…after that is where it becomes hazy.
The Eagles need offensive line depth still. They desperate need a shutdown cornerback and help in the secondary. They need to re-evaluate three years of drafts at the wide receiver position and many failed free agent moves at the position as well.
So the Eagles work begins in continuing to build.
This will not be solved in a year, and though the scoreboard has shown many losses within one score, games where the win was there and slipped away or one play took it away, this team proved that it was really not that close to being successful.
Because of that, they will finish their first season under Doug Pederson at either 7-9 or 6-10.
The two key elements to this offseason are Pederson and Howie Roseman.
Pederson doesn't need to worry about making the calls with player personnel or anything of that nature — though his input is valued by the front office. What he needs to do is spend the offseason evaluating a team that will be predominantly the same next season. See what went right, what went wrong, what went wrong because of his errors.
This is a self-evaluation period for Pederson and he has to be hard on himself.
For Roseman, this may be the last great chance he has to make himself a formidable NFL GM. Mistakes from the past were notable this season, but truth be told, Roseman orchestrated a trade that got the Eagles their quarterback of the future and managed to get a valuable first round pick back.
The first order of business: don't screw up the pick.
The second order of business: start cleaning up the rest of the mess.
Evaluating Roseman can't be done with wins and losses again next season. But noticeable improvement on the field is a requirement, and given that the Eagles played so poorly last season — enough to put an end to the three-year Chip era — and still finished second in the NFC East — thus warranting a tougher schedule — they should be able to improve the record after a last-place finish this season.
The game on Sunday hardly matters, but it serves as a reminder for where the Eagles should strive to get. The Cowboys have not been in this position in some time. They have a new quarterback causing a stir in the NFL. They have an elite running back. They have tremendous receivers, the best offensive line in football and it's enough to hide the flaws on defense that come out every now and again.
For Roseman and Pederson, that should be the goal, and their work to achieve that starts once the final seconds tick off on the 2016 season.
