Eagles OC Kellen Moore sidesteps Saints talk, says focus on SB - ESPN

NEW ORLEANS — Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore smiled expectantly as a crowd of New Orleans-based reporters rushed to crowd around him and start peppering him with questions about his future.

The fact that the New Orleans Saints are the last team looking for a head coach points to Moore as their top candidate; he's the only named candidate who can't be hired yet because his team is playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

«It's obviously been a good process,» he said of his preliminary meetings with Saints general manager Mickey Loomis and other team officials in Philadelphia last week. «Having an opportunity to meet with Mickey and their leadership group has been great, and it's set up in a way that allows us to focus on this game and we'll see what happens after that.»

Sitting on a stool Monday night along what is normally the home sideline area for Saints games in the Superdome, Moore grinned as he danced around questions about whether he was imagining himself back there — and in charge — next fall.

He offered additional assurances that his «pure focus» was on Sunday's matchup with the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs, and he doesn't «have to worry about a single thing except this opportunity» to coach in the Super Bowl.

Moore is a former backup QB who played behind Dak Prescott in Dallas in 2017 before becoming his position coach the next year. This season, he directed an Eagles offense that featured Saquon Barkley as the ninth running back in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards.

During the regular season, the Eagles ranked eighth in the NFL offensively (367.2 yards per game), but gained most of their yards on the ground. Philadelphia ranked second in rushing (179.3 ypg) and 29th in