Philadelphia Eagles suffer post-Super Bowl blow as they lose Kellen Moore to New Orleans Saints

Kellen Moore is reportedly closing successful connected a woody to go the caller caput manager of the New Orleans Saints.

It comes conscionable 48 hours aft Moore, the violative coordinator of the Philadelphia Eagles, won the Super Bowl astatine the Saints' Superdome. 

Moore, 35, is 1 of the brightest young minds successful the NFL and helped Eagles caput manager Nick Sirianni dismantle the Kansas City Chiefs connected Sunday night.

The Saints person been looking for a caller person ever since firing Dennis Allen successful November. Darren Rizzi filled successful arsenic interim caput manager for the remainder of the season.

The Saints were 1 of 7 teams that had a vacancy astatine caput coach; the different six jobs person already been filled. 

But, according to NFL insider Ian Rapoport, Moore is present finalizing a woody with the Saints connected Tuesday. 

At 35, helium volition go the youngest caput manager successful the NFL. It volition beryllium his archetypal head-coaching role.

A record-setting backmost astatine Boise State, Moore was a backup backmost with the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys.

After six seasons successful the NFL, Moore transitioned to coaching, archetypal arsenic quarterbacks manager of the Cowboys and past arsenic violative coordinator.

When then-head manager Mike McCarthy took implicit the play calling successful 2023, Moore exited Dallas and became violative coordinator with the Los Angeles Chargers earlier joining the Eagles successful 2024.

Moore won't person the luxury of endowment similar Saquon Barkley, AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts successful New Orleans, which is $54.1 cardinal implicit the wage headdress and faces roster questions and decisions connected some sides of the ball.

Meanwhie, Moore's exit leaves the Eagles hunting for their 4th antithetic violative coordinator successful arsenic galore years. 

More to follow.