4:12pm: That was fast. Evidently, the Raiders will greenlight this hire early. The team announced Turner’s addition to McDaniels’ staff Friday afternoon.
3:34pm: Just as Mike LaFleur did recently, Scott Turner is expected to have another job lined up. The Raiders are planning to meet with the former Commanders OC, and Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com notes a hire is on track to follow (Twitter link).
Turner will meet with the Raiders next week. Should the second-generation NFL staffer join Josh McDaniels‘ staff, this will mark the second straight team to hire him after previously employing his father as head coach. Norv Turner was the Raiders’ HC from 2004-05. Scott Turner has a Las Vegas past as well, having played in college at UNLV.
Days after the season ended, the Commanders fired Scott Turner after three years. While the team’s issues at quarterback effectively capped what could be accomplished during this time, a host of Commanders voiced frustrations about the direction of Turner’s attack. Washington, however, has still not settled on a Turner replacement.
The Raiders have McDaniels and Mick Lombardi in place as their HC-OC duo, with McDaniels holding play-calling reins. But the team will soon search in earnest for a new quarterback. Turner should be expected to play a key role there, with Ian Rapoport of NFL.com offering (via Twitter) a job overseeing the Raiders’ passing game is expected.
Turner, 40, finished the 2019 season as the Panthers’ OC and ended up rejoining Ron Rivera in Washington. Turner’s offenses never ranked inside the top 20 in scoring, with the team’s quarterback merry-go-round — featuring a large dose of former UDFA Taylor Heinicke — often sputtering. Dan Snyder kept Rivera for a fourth season, but Turner hit the job market.
The Raiders ranked 12th offensively in McDaniels’ oft-scrutinized debut — one marred by blown leads — but are now in the process of finding a Derek Carr trade partner and searching for a replacement. The Raiders did not have much luck with quarterback continuity between Rich Gannon and Carr, with Norv Turner’s stay overlapping with an unremarkable Kerry Collins tenure. The team will still have Davante Adams, who said he will not seek a trade despite its plan to deal Carr, and Josh Jacobs. Vegas is expected to retain Jacobs, who is a franchise tag candidate.
DC fired the wrong coach. Ron sux.
arty! I wouldn’t say he sucks, he’s an above average, respected and liked figure to lead a locker room, IMO. You can do better, but you can easily do worse than Rivera. He’s just not a top tier coach like Belichick, Reid, Shanahan, Tomlin, etc.
They’ve gone to the playoffs once under Rivera. Their main problem is, you can’t win in the NFL with mediocre QB play, especially in the modern passing league. Well, their main problem other than being owned by Snyder.
Lots os problems in DC! Ron is average at best. But will take media shots so Dan can be in the background. No different than their former GM.
Somewhere, Bill Belichick is reading this headline with a smirk. Josh McDaniels is one step closer to slinking back to him in failure, yet again.
What has Bill done w/o Tom? 25-25 these past 3 years. You don’t want to factor in his days as the Brown’s HC.
What has he done for his career without Tom?
He has two Super Bowl rings.
Belichick is rebuilding a team after twenty plus years of high level play. It’s not really a fair comparison to Brady’s departure to a team built to win immediately. Besides, I believe the consideration was regarding Josh McDaniels…?
Those rings came as a DC under Parcells. I have never heard a true answer to this question.
Why is it TB was better overall team than NE when Tom left? Bill has long been the GM there. Bill is the worse college talent evaluating GM in the league & it’s not even close. Here is his list of 1st round picks since 2014
D Easley, M Brown, I Wynn, S Michel, NK Harry, M Jones, & Strange. That’s a putrid list.
So the Raiders are going to release a top 12 QB set to make a Pro Bowl appearance in Derek Carr for Taylor Heinicke.
The big question is who will be the back up? Taylor Heinicke or Jarrett Stidham?
The Raiders will end up with a decent QB.
Carr is a better then decent QB.
Derek Carr did not give up leads of 27,24,21, and 17…. He provided those leads.
The answer to that question will be whichever poor guy wants to take all of the blame for lousy ownership and poor coaching, all while probably not making a lot of money relative to their peers.
DC is average, his TD to INT of 2-1 is garbage. No one is winning anything with those types of stats and it’s been like that since 2017. 2016 was his only good season when he broke his leg against the colts and had a horrible 2017 which got Jack Del Rio fired. And this season He didn’t give up those leads but he also couldn’t get the offense past the 50 against the Saints and then got outplayed by Baker Mayfield on his second day on the job throwing a horrible INT at the end of this first half in the redzone (worse QB in the redzone this season) and then got outplayed by Kenny Pickett in Pittsburgh cuz DC sucks ass in cold weather. He was over throwing under throwing receivers that game. That’s what’s wrong with DC, too inconsistent. And if you think otherwise, you need to watch more football/tape. Even C-Wood said end of this season that he wasn’t getting it done
That’s a lot of revisionist history right there.
Carr didn’t get Del Rio fired, for starters. Mark Davis got stars in his eyes for Gruden. That’s what got Del Rio canned.
Are we going to talk about this season? Ok, then let’s talk about the awful play calling and coaching. Mayfield had a competent coach in LA. He didn’t call the plays against N.O. Hoodie Jr sucks as a coach. The game plans sucked. Carr just got all the blame because Lloyd is too broke to fire Hoodie Jr.