Cowboys OC Kellen Moore to have 2nd interview with Miami on Saturday

Despite the firestorm surrounding the Miami franchise, they’ll sit down with Kellen Moore as 1 of 2 finalists for their head coaching job. | From @ToddBrock24f7

Cowboys offensive coordinator Kellen Moore is set to sit down with the Miami Dolphins on Saturday for his second formal interview regarding their head coaching position.

The Dolphins held a second interview Friday with the other apparent finalist for the job, San Francisco offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel. Also on Friday, the 49ers announced that they had hired rushing-game guru Anthony Lynn as their team’s new assistant head coach. Many around the league took that as a preemptive clue that McDaniel must be, for all intents and purposes, a shoo-in for the Miami gig.

Yet Moore’s interview reportedly remains on the Dolphins’ slate for Saturday.

Moore first met with Miami on Jan. 20; the 33-year-old helmed Dallas to the league’s top ranking in both yards and points.

Brian Flores was fired as Dolphins head coach at the conclusion of the regular season that saw the team go on both a seven-game losing streak and then a seven-game winning streak. While Flores overachieved in three seasons in Miami, the club chalked up his release to poor communication and malfunctioning dynamics with owner Stephen Ross.

In recent days, though, Flores has made allegations that Ross purposely gutted the roster and tanked the team to improve their draft position. He even maintains that Ross offered to pay him a $100,000 bonus for every game the Dolphins lost in 2019 in order to climb in the draft order.

Those troubling allegations and the pending lawsuit will no doubt hang over the Dolphins organization, whoever ends up as their next head coach.

Moore interviewed with multiple teams about a head coaching role over the past few weeks; all but Miami have filled their position with someone else.

“I think he’s ready,” Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy said during the regular season. “My personal opinion- I’ve worked with him for over a year- I think he would be excellent for any head coaching job.”

McCarthy is staying in place with the Cowboys. So is defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, despite being a leading candidate and finalist for several head coaching jobs. Team owner Jerry Jones says he believes Quinn actually had offers on the table, but turned them down to stay in Dallas.

Jones is on record as saying he wants to keep Moore as well.

“I would be upset if Kellen left,” Jones told the Dallas Morning News recently.

With McDaniel supposedly the favorite in Miami, it could come down to how well Moore performs in his interview Saturday.

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