TAMPA, Fla. — C.J. Gardner-Johnson writhed in agony in an ice tub with intravenous fluids pumped into his body. His teammates filed into the locker room at the same time with a different agony following the Eagles’ 33-16 loss to the Tampa Buccaneers to fall to 2-2. It was the same corridor and the same locker room as nine months earlier, when the Eagles’ 2023 campaign concluded in an embarrassing manner — outplayed and overmatched against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
It wasn’t better this time. The stakes were not as high and the temperature was much higher — multiple players exited with cramps; one player remarked after the game that it was “hot as f—” — but the heat on the team seemed simila…
