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. Minshew and Ridder combined for just 157 passing yards and a touchdown, which Ridder threw in the final minute of the game. The Raiders had just 60 rushing yards as a team, and both Ridder and Minshew fumbled the ball away during the contest.
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 Raiders’ fifth straight. Pierce said after the game that “everything” needed to be look at as they enter their bye week. That, apparently, started with firing Getsy.
“We have to do a much better job to put us in position to get us to a point where we actually have a chance to win and not play catch up,” Pierce said, via the Review-Journal.
Pierce is in his first full season as the Raiders’ head coach. He took over as their interim head coach last season when the team fired Josh McDaniels last November, and Pierce finished with a 5-4 record. He now holds a 7-10 record with the franchise as any shot at a playoff spot — which would be the team’s first since the 2021 season — appears to be about out of reach this fall.