Kellen Moore

“It's a hard play on the goal line because ... sometimes they lose sight of the football. I think it's a challenging play for everyone,”

Kellen Moore · said 2026-09-20 · reported 2026-09-21

Moore addressed the difficulty of officiating the goal-line play on which Shough was ruled to have scored.

“Fortunate for us to get that. Obviously we're going to go for it in that situation. Chance to score a touchdown. If not, we're forcing them to be on the minus-1 and go the long way.”

Kellen Moore · said 2026-09-20 · reported 2026-09-21

Moore explained the Saints' decision to go for it near the goal line on the touchdown play.

“We get to learn from how this one navigated and we got some good stuff out of this.”

Kellen Moore · said 2026-08-18 · reported 2026-08-19

Moore said the team could learn from how the joint practice unfolded.

“There’s a lot of rah-rah and emotion to football, and that’s part of it. At the end of the day it’s about executing and running football plays. There’s a lot of loud people on a football field but at the end of the day it’s about executing football plays,”

Kellen Moore · said 2026-08-18 · reported 2026-08-19

Moore discussed wanting players to set aside emotion and focus on executing plays.

“Not the ideal flow of the joint practice, but we got the work that we needed,”

Kellen Moore · said 2026-08-18 · reported 2026-08-19

Moore assessed the overall value of the joint practice despite the fights.

“Schotty and I communicated, we know each other from working in the past, so we communicated,”

Kellen Moore · said 2026-08-18 · reported 2026-08-19

Moore explained he and Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer discussed the fights and decided to continue practice.

“He just had to go inside for a little bit. He just got a little bit overheated,”

Kellen Moore · said 2026-08-18 · reported 2026-08-19

Moore explained why receiver Ronnie Bell was carted off the field during the joint practice.

“Take all the emotion out of it, watch it without all the rah-rah to it and we’ll get some good lessons.”

Kellen Moore · said 2026-08-18 · reported 2026-08-19

Moore elaborated on removing emotion from watching football plays.

“There’s some edginess to football,”

Kellen Moore · said 2026-08-18 · reported 2026-08-19

Moore reflected on the edginess inherent to football.

“All the chippiness of it, not the ideal flow of a joint practice, but we got the work we need,”

Kellen Moore · said 2026-08-18 · reported 2026-08-19

Moore commented on the fight-filled joint practice between the Saints and Cowboys.