After a rough start to the season, the Las Vegas Raiders are moving on from offensive coordinator Luke Getsy.
The Raiders fired Getsy on Sunday evening, the team announced. The decision came hours after the team fell 41-24 to the Cincinnati Bengals, dropping them to 2-7 on the season.
Passing game coordinator Scott Turner, who spent three seasons as offensive coordinator with the Washington Commanders from 2020 to 2022, is expected to take over as interim offensive coordinator for the rest of the time, according to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero.
On 2-7, #Raiders coach Antonio Pierce felt he needed to make some changes, and more are expected. Former Washington OC Scott Turner is a logical candidate to take over as playcaller. https://t.co/ySFO7md9Ij
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) November 4, 2024
The Raiders also announced they had fired offensive line coach James Cregg and quarterbacks coach Rich Scangarello.
Getsy was in his first season as the Raiders’ offensive coordinator this fall. He spent the past two seasons in the same role with the Chicago Bears after a long stint as an offensive assistant with the Green Bay Packers.
The decision to part ways with Getsy isn’t surprising considering the warning head coach Antonio Pierce gave him this past week. He specifically said that Getsy’s play-calling “needs to get better”, and that many of the Raiders’ failed chances to score were “on the play-caller”.
“Yes, it starts with the coordinator,” Pierce said, via the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “He should be the one to take the blame for this and take most of the blame. But it is collective.”
The Raiders entered Sunday’s game averaging the sixth-fewest points in the league per game and the second-fewest rushing yards. They bounced between quarterbacks Gardner Minshew II, Aidan O’Connell and Desmond Ridder, and traded away top receiver Davante Adams to the New York Jets.
Despite Pierce’s comments, Sunday in Cincinnati wasn’t much better. Minshew and Ridder combined for just 157 passing yards and a touchdown, which Ridder threw in the final minute of the game. The Raiders only had 60 rushing yards as a team, and both Ridder and Minshew fumbled the ball away during the game.
Joe Burrow, on the other hand, threw for 251 yards and five touchdowns in the win for the Bengals. Chase Brown ran for 120 yards on 27 carries, and Mike Gesicki had 100 yards and two touchdowns on five catches.
The loss was the fifth straight for the Raiders. Pierce said after the game that “everything” had to be looked at as they entered their bye week. Apparently that started with getting Getsy fired.
“We have to do a much better job of putting ourselves in position to get us to a point where we actually have a chance to win and not overtake,” Pierce said, via the Review-Journal.
Pierce is in his first full season as head coach of the Raiders. He took over as interim head coach last season when the team fired Josh McDaniels last November and Pierce finished with a 5-4 record. He now has a 7-10 record with the franchise, as any chance of a playoff spot — which would be the team’s first since the 2021 season — appears to be all but out of reach this fall.
