PHILADELPHIA – You could almost hear the whoosh of the pendulum swinging back to the other end in Philadelphia on Saturday when NFL sources confirmed the obvious: Doug Nussmeier will again accompany Kellen Moore to a third consecutive stop when he’s officially named the Philadelphia Eagles quarterbacks coach. This will be the seventh consecutive season Nussmeier, 53, and Moore will coach together, the last five in the same setup with Moore as offensive coordinator and Nussmeier as the QB coach. It all started back in Dallas in 2018 when Moore, a star college quarterback at Boise State with a six-year career at the NFL level as a backup, came straight off the playing field to become the Cowboys’ quarterbacks coach. At the time, Nussmeier, himself a high-level college QB at Idaho who spent five seasons in the pros, was the tight ends coach in Dallas
The experience level between Nussmeier and the guy he’s succeeding couldn’t be more vast. Alex Tanney was trying to copy the Moore template, coming straight off the field after an eight-year playing career. Tanney wasn’t thrown into the deep end of the pool like Moore, though. Nick Sirianni started him in quality control in 2021 before promoting Tanney to assistant QB coach in 2022, and then putting him in charge of the room last season after Brian Johnson was promoted to offensive coordinator in the wake of Shane Steichen’s defection to become the head coach in Indianapolis.
