You probably don't know Patrick Dolan, the vice president of football technology for the Eagles. He's a behind-the-scenes employee in charge of the team's football video department, responsible for everything from taping practices and providing cutups to the coaching staff to preparing video of games and upcoming opponents, and, in a normal April, making sure the coaches and the personnel department have every bit of video they need to watch NFL free agents and prospective draft picks.

If you watched really, really closely, you might have seen Dolan at the NFL Scouting Combine filming one of the drills wearing his Eagles golf shirt and his World Championship ring from Super Bowl LII. He's been in the league for 30-plus years, embarking on his seventh in Philadelphia. This is for him, as it is for all of us, uncharted territory.

"In a normal draft, my staff and I would be managing all of the video that is coming in from all of the universities – they would be submitting their Pro Days and we would have been ingesting that and merging that with all of the player profiles in our scouting system and making sure that all of our scouts and our coaches had access to all of that," Dolan said. "For the most part, this would be Pro Day season and we would have been doing that for the last four weeks."

But this is not normal. Far from it.

On March 12, Dolan and every Eagles employee was told that the NovaCare Complex would close for an undetermined period of time amid the COVID-19 global pandemic and that business – as it was, with NFL free agency starting in less than a week and with the NFL Draft to be held on April 23-25 and, extending the view, the team's offseason strength and conditioning program – would be conducted from remote, safe, shelter-in-place locations.

For Dolan and the football operations group, this meant preparing for two of the most crucial elements of an NFL offseason in a drastically different environment. Instead of working from the confines of the NovaCare Complex and preparing for the NFL Draft in the two-year-old, state-of-the-art draft room there, Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie had to work from his home, Executive Vice President/General Manager Howie Roseman from his home office, and Head Coach Doug Pederson from his home – stationed in his son's third-floor bedroom – and that, somehow, they all had to be connected and have access to the same video and graphics and medical reports that they had at the NovaCare Complex and that the lines of communication had to be fluid and redundant and as reliable as possible.