Eagles hiring former Cowboys assistant Kellen Moore as offensive coordinator

The Eagles have turned to their greatest rival to fill their offensive coordinator emptiness.

Kellen Moore, who coached the Cowboys to a few top-6 offensive rankings in 4 years in Dallas, would be the Eagles’ new offensive coordinator, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Saturday night.

Moore replaces Brian Johnson, who was fired after three years with the Eagles, this previous season as offensive coordinator. Moore would be the Eagles’ third offensive coordinator in three years.

Moore spent the final yr with the Chargers as OC beneath Brandon Staley, who was fired final month and changed by former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. 

Nick Sirianni stated on Wednesday that whoever he brings in as offensive coordinator will herald his personal scheme and construction versus calling performs inside Sirianni’s offense. 

“We’re bringing in a man to usher in new concepts, to do the issues that he is executed previously,” he stated Wednesday. “It would be loopy to not add among the issues that we have executed previously right here, as effectively. …

“We’re engaged on getting the very best man in right here for the job and a man who has a imaginative and prescient, a man who’s going to name the performs, a man who’s going to have the ability to coach a quarterback. … So it is nearly getting the precise man after which we’ll resolve the place that goes. However I am hiring him to do a job and to be answerable for the offense.”

The Eagles did end seventh within the NFL in scoring this previous season, however the offense grew stale and predictable because the yr went on. They scored fewer than 20 factors in 5 of their final seven video games, and of their wild-card loss in Tampa, the Eagles scored simply 9 factors.

Moore, 35, spent components of six seasons as a backup quarterback with the Lions (2012-14) and Cowboys (2015-17) earlier than beginning his teaching profession in 2018 because the Cowboys’ quarterbacks coach. After one yr, he was promoted to offensive coordinator and held that place from 2019 by 2022.

The Cowboys had been ranked sixth, seventeenth, 1st and 4th in Moore’s 4 years working the offense, the primary yr beneath Jason Garrett and three beneath Mike McCarthy. Curiously, each Johnson and Moore coached Dak Prescott – Johnson at Mississippi State and Moore with the Cowboys.

After the Cowboys misplaced to the 49ers 19-12 in a convention semifinal sport in Santa Clara final yr, the Cowboys and Moore parted methods. A day later, he was employed by the Chargers, and in his one season in L.A. the Chargers went 5-12 and ranked twenty first in offense.

Kellen was one in all solely three identified candidates for the job. Former Playing cards head coach Kliff Kingsbury and Texans quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson additionally interviewed. All three had been big-time school quarterbacks.

That tells you ways essential this rent is to Jalen Hurts, whose efficiency declined beneath Johnson, who was coached in highschool by Hurts’ father.

“It is actually essential that these two guys are going to work hand in hand to verify we’re getting again to the place we should be,” Sirianni stated.

Throughout Moore’s 4 years in Dallas as offensive coordinator and play caller, the Cowboys averaged 27.7 factors per sport – 2nd-most within the NFL behind the Chiefs’ 28.8. Throughout his 5 years in Dallas as both QBs coach or OC, they’d the 4th-most passing yards within the NFL with 256 per sport.

Moore’s solely NFL taking part in time got here in with the Cowboys on the finish of the 2015 season.

With Tony Romo injured and Brandon Weeden and Matt Cassel struggling, Moore performed within the final three video games, beginning two, and threw 4 touchdowns and 6 interceptions vs. the Jets, Payments and Washington. He threw for 435 yards with three TDs towards Washington in his last NFL look. Moore is the primary head coach or offensive or defensive coordinator in Eagles historical past who both performed or coached with the Cowboys at any level earlier than he joined the Eagles.