The Eagles finally introduced their new coordinators this week, more than three months after their hiring.

Kellen Moore and Vic Fangio spoke with the scribes at NovaCare, going over a variety of topics that I’ve condensed into five takeaway quotes.

1. this is (probably) Vic Fangio’s last stop

DC Vic Fangio is 65 years old and has been coaching football since 1980. Barring some sort of Motley Crue un-retirement, it sounds like this is it for him:

Q. Why Philly? Why did you decide to come here? (Chris Franklin)

VIC FANGIO: Well, it was exactly 40 years ago when I started my pro coaching career across the street at Veterans Stadium, and I thought it would be cool to hopefully end it here. So, 40 years later, here I am.

A lot of things change, and a lot of things don’t. One of the first things I’ve done, several times, I still go to the Philadium down on Packer for my meals, just like I did way back then. Phillies are still playing good. You guys didn’t clobber them for losing one game (Wednesday), did you? But no, just to come back, my kids live two hours south of here. My mother, who’s 97, lives two hours north of here. So, a lot of family considerations.

I was a big Philly fan growing up in all sports. It was a thrill for me to go to work every day at Veterans Stadium 40 years ago because I used to go to games there all the time. And now it’s a good thrill to come back 40 years later and hopefully finish it out here.

Q. So, you expect this to be your last stop? (Jeff McLane)

VIC FANGIO: I would think so, but as we all know in this business, nothing’s guaranteed.

Has Fangio been coaching a long time? Sure, but 65 isn’t necessarily “old” by NFL standards. Guys like Bill Belichick, Bruce Arians, Andy Reid, Tom Coughlin, Pete Carroll – they all coached or still coach at age 68 or older. Some are still active. Then you’ve got coordinators, Dick LeBeau for instance, he’s 86 now but coached up until 2017. Age is just a number. 65 is the new 55.

2. Kellen Moore and motion

The Eagles ran a shotgun, college-style offense in previous seasons, so the big question with Kellen Moore is if they’re going to install play action and pre-snap motion and run Jalen Hurts from under center:

Q.When it comes to motion and offense, that’s been one of the things that’s a little bit different, the Eagles, a lot of ways to impart information. The Eagles haven’t used it a lot. You’re typically in the top ten. Is that something based on the players, or is that your sort of philosophy to have?(John McMullen)

KELLEN MOORE: Certainly the shift in motion aspect of it, it probably goes back to how I grew up around the game with my dad being a high school coach, then being in college at Boise State, we kind of used it a lot. It’s always kind of stuck with me. There’s obviously advantages to it.

There’s some things that you’re trying to gather information for the defense, and there’s other times you’re simply stressing the defense. So I think there’s those two elements. Ultimately you’re trying to build packages and create things so that the run and the action game and the drop-back game. So there’s alignment and similarities with the presentations that allows us to stress the defense with those different looks.

“Stress the defense” is a good way to frame it. The Eagles did that through their RPO game in the past, reading a defensive end or outside linebacker, for instance, and making that the keystone of their admittedly-limited deception game. You might recall the one Cowboys matchup where they left Micah Parsons unblocked and just RPO’d the shit out of him, and that was probably the apex of their ability to “stress the defense” back then. Things turned stale, quickly.

3. How did Fangio help the Super Bowl team?

Vic Fangio was brought in as a consultant of sorts to help the Eagles prepare for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2023. What did he actually do during that time? –

Q. When you were here a couple years ago, what were your responsibilities when you were a consultant? (Jimmy Kempski)

VIC FANGIO: I wasn’t here that often. I really helped the offense. I’d say 95 percent of any of my contributions were to the offense and 5 percent to the defense.

That’s basically what I was doing, trying to give the offensive coaches a pre-look at the defense they’re going against, what could possibly hurt them, what’s their strengths, what’s their weaknesses. Schematically, where they can be attacked maybe and not attacked.

All that different kind of stuff. But it wasn’t every week.

Probably should have spent more time with Jonathan Gannon and the defense that week. We’ve been over that a million times before, but Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes just put on a second half clinic and the rest is history.

4. early linebacker evaluation

The Eagles drafted Jeremiah Trotter Jr. in the 5th round of the draft, added Zack Baun, and are returning Nakobe Dean from injury. They signed Devin White on a one-year deal and brought in Oren Burks too. What does Fangio think? –

Q. At linebacker, specifically, how do you see the personnel here matching what you want to do? (Zach Berman)

VIC FANGIO: When you say linebacker, I think inside linebackers, okay?

I think they’re off to a good start. We’ve got Baun here who’s played a little bit of inside linebacker in New Orleans. He really didn’t play a whole lot of defense there, but he was inside some, more outside. We think he can play inside, and I have not seen anything so far that says otherwise. Obviously, we got Devin here from Tampa. You guys are well aware of him. He had a great career going, had a down year last year for whatever reason. We hope to get him back to where he was. Nakobe is on the mend from his injuries last year.

Who am I forgetting here? Keep going. Yeah, Trotter’s got to come in and join the fray, and let’s see what he has. And Burks too. He’s been a veteran backup. He’s in the hunt too. We don’t have anybody established as, per se, an Eagle, but we’ve got guys to work with, and we’re happy with the group so far.

Anybody else find it curious that Baun was the first guy mentioned? He was more of a hybrid edge guy in New Orleans. Maybe reading too much into that, but they really need somebody to step up and put a chokehold on the ILB position to assuage the justified concerns of Eagles fans.

5. Jalen Hurts at the line of scrimmage

A lot of talk last season about Jalen Hurts and his decision making at the line. How was he reading defenses? Did he make the right audibles? How much power should he have to change the plays? –

Q.Where do you stand on how much you give a quarterback autonomy to change plays at the line?(Jeff McLane)

KELLEN MOORE: Ultimately they have a front view seat at this thing. We want to give the QB tools and the ability to make the adjustments necessary at the line of scrimmage while also trying to keep it as clean and concise so he can play fast.

Ultimately, we want them to have the ability to make the adjustments necessary, but we can’t dilute it to the point that he’s got 500 million things that he can potentially do at the line of scrimmage and now we’re not all on the same page.

A lot of times the QB note is what it is, but it’s also making sure all 11 are tied to what the adjustments are. [QB] Jalen’s [Hurts] been phenomenal. I’m excited about building that process with him.

The second sentence sticks out to me there. Hurts would often go to the line with a number of pre-snap options, so while it wasn’t necessarily an “audible” out of a play, he might see a corner aligned a certain way and go to option B instead of option A. The defensive setup would determine where the ball was going more often than not. I’m not totally sure if Moore is alluding to that when he talks about “500 million things that he can potentially do,” but sometimes simplifying makes it easier to run a clean offense. This is one to keep an eye on when the Birds get started.