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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 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 interim offensive coordinator the rest of the way, according to 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 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 split with Getsy isn’t surprising considering the warning head coach Antonio Pierce gave him this past week. He said specifically that Getsy’s play-calling “has to get better,” and that many of the Raiders’ failed opportunities to score were “on the play-caller.”
“Yeah, it does start with the coordinator,” Pierce 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 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 any better….
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Publish date : 2024-11-04 04:55:29
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