Wanting on the creativity that Kellen Moore can deliver to the Eagles

As I stated within the final Kellen Moore submit, I’ve watched a lot movie on the brand new Eagles offensive coordinator that I’ll flip all of the clips I recorded right into a sequence of posts, reasonably than only one lengthy article. Each will concentrate on a number of completely different points of Kellen Moore’s philosophy. In case you haven’t checked out the earlier two articles, then please achieve this earlier than studying this one!

Half 1: Run Sport, PA Bare Bootleg and Movement

Half 2: The Blitz, Quads/Journeys Formations and Vertical Pictures

On this one, I’ll have a look at a couple of bits I didn’t get to within the first two items after which give my general ideas on the rent.

Creativity

I’ll be trustworthy, I’m not somebody who’s an enormous fan of ‘trick performs’ or no matter. Sure, the Philly Particular is the best Tremendous Bowl play of all time. However, let’s be actual, after we are analyzing an offense and breaking down the scheme, we not often embrace trick performs in our evaluation.

Nevertheless, why not? In case you watched the Eagles’ offense final 12 months, you have been in all probability fairly bored at occasions. The Eagles didn’t strive something fancy or distinctive, even when nothing was working. I feel that can change subsequent 12 months, as Kellen Moore makes use of extra artistic performs to try to shock defenses and in addition to set them up for the same look in a while within the recreation.

I’ve referred to as this part creativity, however I might have named it ‘WR Fly Sweeps’. Kellen Moore likes to make use of his receiver within the run recreation and I’m going to be wanting laborious at huge receivers who excel with the ball of their palms within the draft this 12 months. The Eagles completely want a brand new profile at WR3 this offseason. WR3 performs an vital position in Moore’s offense as a result of he likes to run performs like this.

As I stated within the tweet, that is one other manner that Moore needs to stretch protection horizontally.

I noticed various 21 personnel with our of backs break up out huge too. In case you learn my work final 12 months, you recognize that I’m an enormous fan of 21 personnel so I received excited after I noticed this play. It’s one other manner that Moore tries to disguise what he needs to do. I’ll return to the quote from my first article on Moore…

Our entire purpose from an out of doors perspective is to make it look as complicated as attainable. And on the finish of the day, it’s fairly easy for us. It’s a whole lot of the identical ideas, it’s a whole lot of methods of doing the identical issues.

How cool is that this play? Simply watch the Texans linebackers. They do not know what’s going on.

This subsequent one is well my favourite play that I noticed on-line. That is simply superior. It’s not only a random trick play both. This works due to what Kellen Moore’s offenses wish to run. We all know he likes to run toss performs (learn article 1!) and we’ve already stated above that he likes to run fly sweeps together with his receivers too.

Positives

If I haven’t backed all the pieces up with stats right here, please return and browse the first and 2nd articles. That is extra of a abstract of issues that I’m fairly sure of, based mostly on the movie and the stats!

+ Kellen Moore has a confirmed monitor document of success. He led an excellent Cowboys’ offense over a number of years. This isn’t an unproven younger coach who will probably be overruled by Nick Sirianni.

+ He has confirmed that he can plan an offense to succeed in opposition to the blitz. The leaked 2021 playbook highlights that he takes this a part of an offense very significantly.

+ He has a monitor document of efficiently utilizing movement over a number of years, in each the run recreation and cross recreation.

+ He runs an offense that features a whole lot of beneath heart which is able to give the Eagles’ offense one other dimension.

+ His offenses may have a number of ways in which he can beat the protection, and I anticipate extra changes week to week reasonably than a ‘we’re higher than you and we’ll run our offense it doesn’t matter what’ id.

+ He matches the philosophy of an aggressive coach who needs to take photographs down the sphere and options his star expertise at receiver.

+ He’s keen to decide to the run when he must. His Cowboys’ offenses have been constantly very sturdy in operating the ball.

Negatives

– Make no mistake, that is going to be a change in scheme for all of the offensive gamers. The offensive line goes to need to get used to operating extra exterior zone. The receivers will probably be requested to run ideas based mostly on timing and never simply isolation down the sphere routes. All eligible receivers must be ready to doubtlessly alter their routes relying on if the protection blitzes.

– That is going to be an enormous take a look at for Jalen Hurts. Kellen Moore’s offense will ask him to do various things. He hasn’t been beneath heart in a very long time. He hasn’t been requested to show his again to the protection on play-action. He hasn’t proven that he can run an offense that basically focuses on scorching routes when the protection blitzes.

– I need an offense that options an beneath heart run recreation, however it does take away the mobility of the quarterback at occasions. This might impression the Eagles’ offense run recreation negatively if it doesn’t work and he might conflict with Jeff Stoutland.

– He hasn’t featured the display screen recreation as an offensive coordinator, which is a disgrace as a result of the Eagles’ offensive line could be very sturdy. However the group hasn’t had a superb display screen recreation in years, and I don’t anticipate that to alter.

– He solely lasted one season with an especially gifted quarterback at his disposal. Though he wasn’t technically fired because the Head Coach was fired.

– The Chargers’ offense wasn’t nice final 12 months. Sure, they’d a whole lot of accidents and a disastrous operating recreation. However they underperformed.

General

I’m excited by this rent. Sadly, regardless of watching a hell of a whole lot of movie on Kellen Moore’s offenses, I can’t let you know that the rent is assured to work! It’s actually troublesome to foretell this stuff as a result of there are such a lot of variables. I assumed I’d get my excuses out of the way in which early…

I feel Moore matches Nick Sirianni’s philosophy effectively, however the way in which he does it is rather completely different. This offense goes to look completely different subsequent 12 months if Moore is really the person in cost. The aggressive mindset is analogous, however the scheme is loads completely different. I’m positive the Eagles will hold components of the offense which have been profitable these previous few years, however this group wanted a shakeup.

I needed the Eagles to rent a brand new offensive coach who will deliver new components, together with the usage of movement, solutions in opposition to the blitz, and somebody who’s confirmed and never inexperienced. Kellen Moore ticks all these 3 containers. That is going to be a special offense, and there may very well be a studying curve for Jalen Hurts, however I feel this offense could be profitable and I’m optimistic that Kellen Moore is the person to steer this time ahead. No matter occurs subsequent 12 months, if Moore is given full management, I anticipate this to be a really completely different offense than what we noticed in the direction of the tip of this 12 months. That may’t be a nasty factor.