COSTA MESA, Calif. — The Los Angeles Chargers have agreed to phrases with Kellen Moore to be their new offensive coordinator, the staff introduced Monday.

The transfer comes lower than 24 hours after the Dallas Cowboys launched an announcement that mentioned Moore and the staff had reached a “mutual determination to half methods” following an end-of-season assessment course of.

In L.A., Moore is changing offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi, who was fired after a 10-7 season that resulted in a historic meltdown loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars within the wild-card spherical.

Moore, 33, will take over an offense led by quarterback Justin Herbert, who final season handed Andrew Luck to tally essentially the most passing yards via a participant’s first three NFL seasons. Moore additionally inherits receivers Keenan Allen and Mike Williams and operating again Austin Ekeler, who final season led the NFL with 18 touchdowns.

Moore goes from teaching Dak Prescott, who led the league in interception price (3.8%) this season, to Herbert, who had the seventh-lowest interception price (1.4%) within the NFL, based on ESPN Stats & Data analysis.

On the outset of the seek for a brand new offensive coordinator, coach Brandon Staley mentioned he would search for management and a system that resembled those deployed by Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay and San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan.

“The offenses that I feel are essentially the most difficult to defend … are those that put quite a lot of stress on you each snap, when it comes to marrying the run recreation to the cross recreation, placing quite a lot of stress on you with personnel groupings, tempo, movement, and with the ability to get the explosions constantly,” Staley mentioned.

The Chargers’ offense ranked tenth final season, scoring a mean of twenty-two.47 factors per recreation. However they struggled to constantly run the soccer, averaging solely 89.6 yards per recreation, which ranked thirtieth.

Moore spent 4 seasons as coordinator for the Cowboys, together with his offense rating within the prime 4 in factors per recreation (27.7), yards per recreation (391) and third-down conversion share (44%).

With the Chargers, he is anticipated to deploy a extra balanced offensive assault than the Bolts relied on underneath Lombardi.

Final season, the Chargers known as a designed cross on 68% of performs, the second-highest price within the NFL behind solely the Buccaneers (68.1%). The Cowboys known as a designed cross on 54.6% of their performs in 2022, the sixth-lowest price within the league.

“When it comes to the passing recreation, that is what we have been capable of do at a excessive stage for the final two years, throw the soccer,” Staley mentioned earlier than Moore’s hiring. “However to be extra explosive, you will have to have the ability to run the soccer extra constantly to place extra stress on individuals.”

The Cowboys underneath Moore ranked eleventh in price of explosive performs (10.1%), certified as a 10-yard run or 20-yard cross play, whereas the Chargers the final two seasons underneath Lombardi ranked thirtieth (8.1%).

The Chargers additionally interviewed Rams passing recreation coordinator/quarterbacks coach Zac Robinson, Rams senior offensive assistant Greg Olsen, Rams assistant head coach/tight ends coach Thomas Brown and Minnesota Vikings assistant quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson for the place.

It is unclear whether or not Moore will make additional modifications to the Chargers’ offensive employees. A emptiness stays at quarterbacks coach after Shane Day additionally was fired after the season.