Raiders fire offensive coordinator Luke Getsy after 2-7 start, loss to Bengals

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 night, the team announced. The decision came just hours after the team fell 41-24 to the Cincinnati Bengals, which dropped them to 2-7 on the season.

Passing game coordinator Scott Turner, who spent three seasons as the offensive coordinator with the Washington Commanders from 2020-2022, is expected to take over as their interim offensive coordinator the rest of the way, according to the NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero.

At 2-7, #Raiders coach Antonio Pierce felt he needed to make some kind of 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 that they 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 last 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 split with Getsy isn’t too surprising, considering the warning that head coach Antonio Pierce gave him earlier this week. He said specifically that Getsy’s play-calling “has to get better,” and that many of their failed opportunities to put points on the board were “on the play-caller.”

“Yeah, it does start with the coordinator,” he said, via the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “He’s got to be the one that takes the fall for that and gets 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 holding the second-fewest rushing yards. They’ve bounced between quarterbacks Gardner Minshew, Aidan O’Connell and Desmond Ridder, too, and traded away top receiver Davante Adams away to the New York Jets.

Despite Pierce’s comments,…

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Publish date : 2024-11-04 04:55:29

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