FEBRUARY 6: The Raiders have made it official. The team announced the hiring of Getsy as its new offensive coordinator.
FEBRUARY 4: Less than a day after Kliff Kingsbury backtracked on a reported agreement to become the Raiders’ offensive coordinator, the team is moving toward another option. The team is zeroing in on Luke Getsy.
The Raiders and the recently fired Bears OC are working on an agreement, according to SI.com’s Albert Breer. A hire is expected, ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler tweets. This would be for another play-calling OC gig; the Bears axed Getsy after two years in the same role. This has been an eventful search for Antonio Pierce‘s team, but it is looking like — barring another 11th-hour breakdown — the AFC West club will have a new play-caller in place soon.
A number of Raiders targets took OC jobs elsewhere. The Bengals promoted Dan Pitcher to what is a non-play-calling OC position. Ex-Browns OC Alex Van Pelt interviewed with the Raiders but accepted the Patriots’ play-calling OC role. The Raiders also had Klint Kubiak, Zac Robinson and Shane Waldron on their radar. This trio of candidates respectively is now aligned with the Saints, Falcons and Bears. As a result of Kingsbury’s course change, the Raiders are ready to commit to a future with Chicago’s previous play-caller.
The Kingsbury agreement surfaced on Thursday. As of Saturday morning, however, the deal was off. Kingsbury informed the Raiders he would not take the job; this came after contract negotiations fell apart. The USC quarterbacks coach is believed to have sought a three-year deal, while the Raiders were aiming at a two-year pact. This might not boil down to only term length, but as it stands now, Kingsbury is squarely on the Commanders’ radar to become their play-calling OC.
Following the Kingsbury news, dot connecting between the Raiders and Getsy commenced. Though, the Raiders also spoke with Eric Bieniemy about the position. With Kingsbury and Chip Kelly — another Raiders candidate — on the radar in Washington, it certainly appears Bieniemy will not be retained. Seeing as Bieniemy arrived in Washington when Dan Snyder and Ron Rivera were still in power, it seemed a long shot he would stay — especially after a 4-13 season — under this new Josh Harris–Adam Peters–Dan Quinn regime.
Getsy, 39, interviewed for the Raiders’ OC job last week; they were the first team to reach out. While the interview went well, the Raiders did not position the ex-Packers QBs coach as their first choice. Getsy also interviewed for the Patriots and Saints’ OC positions, meeting with the Saints twice. But the team is prepared to go with Kubiak.
Tasked with developing Justin Fields, Getsy drew criticism as that effort did not go smoothly. That said, the ex-Aaron Rodgers position coach made a concerted effort to utilize Fields’ gifts in the run game midway through the 2022 season. The result nearly brought down Lamar Jackson‘s single-season QB rushing record; Fields finished with 1,143 rushing yards — second-most by a QB in a season — in 2022. The jury is still out on Fields as a passer, leading to the Caleb Williams rumors, but the Bears respectively ranked first and second on the ground in Getsy’s two seasons.
On the whole, the Bears ranked 23rd and 18th in scoring offense during Getsy’s two seasons in Illinois. Prior to that stay, he also served as the Packers’ pass-game coordinator from 2020-21. Current Raider Davante Adams ripped off his first two All-Pro seasons during that span.
Assuming this Getsy-Raiders partnership becomes official, this year’s OC carousel will feature three recently fired coordinators — Getsy, Van Pelt, Ken Dorsey — landing jobs elsewhere. The Chargers also did not retain Kellen Moore, but he is now in place as the Eagles’ OC. Ditto Seattle and Waldron, who left for Chicago after three years as Pete Carroll‘s OC. Getsy will step into an interesting position in Las Vegas.
Some of this era’s top offensive minds reside in the AFC West. Andy Reid is set to coach in his fifth Super Bowl, while the Broncos have former Super Bowl champion Sean Payton in his second offseason running the show. The Chargers have upped the ante, hiring ex-Super Bowl HC and reigning national champion Jim Harbaugh to oversee Justin Herbert‘s development. Getsy will join a team that has by far the least experienced head coach in the division, and with Pierce’s background on defense, it will be Getsy in full command on the offensive side.
The Raiders also have a quarterback question to answer, joining the Broncos in that regard. Getsy will either be charged with developing a draft choice or working with a veteran acquisition. Either way, plenty will be on the young assistant’s shoulders in 2024.
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Poor Raider fans.
Raiders’ leaders are taking the term “booby prize” to an all-new (aka, much lower) level. Poor Las Vegas fans…
This guy is a perfectly good and capable OC. His problem in Chicago is that Justin Fields is a bad QB. He can run as good as anyone in the NFL, he just can’t put it together in the pass game. The Bears dumbed the offense down on so many occasions and Fields just continually failed miserably. Of course, those that continue to genuflect at the alter of Fields blame everyone else but him, with Getsy being target number one. Getsy coached an undrafted FA backup QB this year in Tyson Bagent to a 2-2 record while the (running back) was hurt. The guy can coach, the QB can’t figure out how to be a QB.
Sure he is. Same thing they said about his old boss last year in Denver.
I’m certainly not going to say Fields belongs in the upper echelon of QBs, but he is far from a bad QB. The talent is there, and he’s made strides to improve. If there are any deficiencies in your QBs abilities, it is the OC job to try to hide those with schemes. You can’t just say I’m going to run my offense, no matter what. To Getsy’s credit, he did do that late in the year. It’s as unfair to pin it all on Fields as it is to pin it entirely on Getsy, though.
Being honest here, where are the stories or reports about how the Bears had to dumb down the offense for Fields?
Even if that is accurate, I doubt Fields was the sole reason for Getsy calling three straight screens deep in his own zone.
I get there are a lot of Fields haters out there, but there is an AWFUL lot of tunnel vision when it comes to Fields, like he was the only guy on the field and was calling his own limited plays…
Fields is not an all pro, maybe never will be, but the same people that whine that everyone is blaming one guy in Getsy seem to also seem to have no problem to turnaround and then blame one guy in Fields..
Being a Bears fan and watching this offense, Getsy’s play calling was terrible. His default 3rd and 8 call was the bubble screen. He did nothing to develop that offense on a RPO basis to get the ball out downfield quickly.
So he won’t have the problem of having a bad QB in Vegas?
Raiders got a better QB than Fields that I don’t know about? I must have missed that transaction. Why in the hell does the league hate Eric B? Why in the hell do he leave K.C for Washington anyway? Talk about a panicky, suicidal career move! How could he have ever not seen that they would clean house and fire Rivera and he’d be dine after one season? I guess with that kind of poor judgment, it’s no wonder he can’t land a job this off season. Sure as heck ain’t nobody gonna give him a HC job when he shows he can’t manage his own career. Good dude and deserves a chance but it’s hard to see it happening now.
He left KC to go to Washington because he was a non play calling OC in KC and it was hindering his efforts for a HC position. Washington was supposed to afford him an opportunity to be completely in charge of the offense and get out of Reid’s shadow.
Unfortunately a couple of things happened. His old school coaching style alienated and pissed off his players. Also, just like Nagy in Chicago, another former KC OC who lived in Reids shadows, he had early success before the league caught up and figured him out. Was down hill from there.
Another unfortunate thing that happened was that Washington named a starting QB that they hoped would put them in position to draft a real starting QB.
No, the Commies/Redskins were hoping that Sam Howell would make the leap to the NFL. Howell has NFL calibre arm and mobility, but is a bit (Baker Mayfield) small and for now is too slow processing. Eventually Howell might catch up to the game with his processing but his ceiling is Baker Mayfield. I.e. middle of the pack. Should have a long career as at least a reliable backup.
They had that “hope” in Howell with only one NFL start that went poorly. The arm and mobility stuff was pretty much known. The processing was predictable, and they knew how big he was when they measured him in his undies. I think that last season’s results were unsurprising and the team figured if he does great awesome and if plays like a poor man’s Baker Mayfield we will be in position to draft a better QB.
Breaking: Bears trade Fields to the Raiders. Fields announces retirement.
This was definitely not the way I saw it unfolding. I was excited about Kingsbury working with our offense, particularly the QB position. I honestly didn’t know much about Getsy, and got caught up in focusing on the names I was more familiar with. With that being said, this seems like a decent fit. He is definitely someone who will run the ball and we currently don’t have a QB that we want throwing the ball 50 times a game. He’s been working with a running QB and might be able to scheme up some different things with a QB that can stand in the pocket and read through his progressions. The Bears also didn’t have a lot of weapons for Fields on offense. With Davante at WR, an up and coming Mayer at TE and some nice complimentary WR’s he might be able to scheme up something better in the passing game. This also could be a case of the team listening to its star players since he has history with Davante in GB. Regardless of all of this we still need to bolster our offensive line if we are going to have success on offense. Jimmy G and O’Connell didn’t have the time in the pocket that a QB needs to execute an effective passing offense so all of the feel good thoughts will go right out the window if our offensive line play doesn’t vastly improve.
Was reported that Kingsbury would be the OC, and after two days of the report he backs out. So then it’s reported Getsy will be the OC. Two days later & it hasn’t been finalized. Who’s next as their OC of this falls thru? Gruden as OC? LOL!
This isn’t setting the bar very high, but Getsy hasn’t shown any less design and playcalling acumen in the NFL than Kingsbury has.
First mistake Pierce has made. If he had a say it maybe great Mark Davis. He definitely did not inherent Davis experience coaching etc. . Like Irsay dad owned time. They think they know football LOL
if you can convince Mark Davis you’re bad enough to lose to the Raiders by 42 points…you’ll likely get hired to a staff position.
Well I guess this will show if Getsy was bad, or the personnel was bad in Chicago. Then again the Offense is LV was nothing to boast about.. Not sure if Getsy helps in those situations (as it did not help him in Chicago).