Amid a calamitous stretch for the Philadelphia Eagles last season, their star-laden offense was dimmed on a weekly basis.
As Philly lost five of its final six games, the offense averaged just 18 points in those defeats -- a number skewed by a 35-31 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. Despite talents such as Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith, the Eagles were largely grounded during their fall from grace.
A longtime rival, Kellen Moore, has been tasked with remedying those ills as Philadelphia's new offensive coordinator.
For Moore, the keys to success will be the balancing act in getting all those aforementioned stars involved, building on their previous accomplishments and simultaneously making the necessary alterations after last season's struggles.
"I think everyone's got their different flavor from a systematic approach," Moore said Thursday, via team transcript. "Our real focus here, as we've gone through this process, is we've got a lot of good going on. We can't lose the good in the reps that Jalen and A.J. have developed and Dallas (Goedert) has developed and this offensive line has developed. How can we build off of those things and really connect the whole thing?"
Unfortunately, Moore didn't provide any answers with how to get that all done, but it's May -- a time in which optimism reigns and the work has only just begun.
At season's completion, Philadelphia was seventh in points scored and eighth in total yards. Each of those numbers were drops from the 2022 season in which then-offensive coordinator Shane Steichen's collective led a Super Bowl run. Still, the top-10 statistical finishes don't seem to call for a drastic change, but as the Eagles stumbled and bumbled from a 10-1 start to an 11-6 regular-season
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