Cowboys coaching search: Dallas requests interview with Eagles OC Kellen Moore, per report

The Dallas Cowboys I made an interview request for a candidate that everyone saw coming on Thursday: Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, per NFL Media. According to ESPNMoore will virtually interview with Dallas on Friday ahead of the Eagles’ NFC division home game against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, according to ESPN.

Moore, 35, has coordinated the Eagles with the NFLs No. 7 scoring offense (27.2 points per game) and No. 8 total offense (367.2 total yards per game) in 2024, his first season in Philadelphia after a year as the Los Angeles Chargers offensive coordinator in 2023. Outside of Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones re-interviewing Jason Garrett, no candidate for the current head coaching vacancy in Dallas has more familiarity with working for Jones than Moore.

He first joined the Cowboys in 2015 as a backup quarterback after spending his first three NFL seasons (2012-2014) with the Detroit Lions after going undrafted following a record-breaking college career at Boise State. Moore was no longer both Tony Romo’s And Dak Prescotts backup as Prescott’s quarterbacks coach after his NFL career retirement in 2018. Garrett promoted Moore to his offensive coordinator in his final season as the Cowboys’ head coach, and Moore remained on the Dallas coaching staff as offensive coordinator after the hiring of Mike. McCarthy will become the team’s head coach in 2020.

McCarthy famously allowed Moore to retain offensive play-calling duties, despite McCarthy himself doing so during his head coaching career with the Green Bay Packers. Moore’s Cowboys offenses ranked in the top 10 in the NFL in three of his four seasons in Dallas, with the lone exception being 2020 when Prescott broke his ankle five games into that year. When McCarthy decided to take back play-calling duties for the 2023 season, Moore left to take over as the Chargers’ offensive coordinator. Prescott threw a career-high 37 touchdown passes in the 2021 season, a year in which Dallas led the NFL in scoring offense (31.2 points per game), with Moore calling the plays.

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The main complaints in Dallas at the end of Moore’s time as offensive coordinator were a predictable route tree, especially when it came to the use of hitches and comeback routes, and a lack of coordination with the receivers’ route development and the offensive line’s blocking scheme . out of sync with Prescott’s footwork. Both All-Pro wide receiver CeeDee Lam and Prescott praised the shift from Moore’s offense to McCarthy’s “Texas Coast” violation in which they said there was more detail and a better connection between Prescott’s footwork and the blocking scheme.

Should the Cowboys hire Moore, he would essentially be Jones’ new Jason Garrett — someone who owns and has developed Moore as a player, assistant coach, offensive coordinator and head coach.