The Raiders suffered their fifth straight loss today after starting the season 2-2, and the offense continues to struggle to get the job done. As a result, changes are being made. The latest changes come in the form of a staffing updates as offensive coordinator Luke Getsy has reportedly been let go, per Tom Pelissero of NFL Network. The team soon announced quarterbacks coach Rich Scangarello and offensive line coach James Cregg have also been dismissed. 
Getsy’s second tenure as an offensive coordinator in the NFL has turned out about the same as his first stint, though Chicago afforded him a tad more leash. A former undrafted quarterback in the league back in 2007, it didn’t take long for Getsy to move on to coaching. After seven seasons in the collegiate ranks, Getsy earned his first NFL coaching gig as an offensive quality control coach with the Packers.
After leaving for a year to be offensive coordinator at Mississippi State, Getsy returned to Green Bay under then-offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett and head coach Matt LaFleur. This time, Getsy worked as quarterbacks coach over veteran Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers, already a two-time MVP at the time, made the entire offensive staff look good, winning his third and fourth MVPs in back-to-back years in 2020 and 2021. The performances earned Hackett a head coaching gig in Denver and Getsy his first offensive coordinator job in the NFL with the Bears.
In his first season calling plays, the Bears fielded the league’s top rushing offense, though a 32nd-ranked passing offense put the team at just 28th for total offense. Chicago remained one of the top rushing teams in his second year, and even improved in passing and scoring, but head coach Matt Eberflus cut ties in an attempt to keep his own job with a new offensive coordinator and a new rookie quarterback in 2024.
Getsy rebounded, hopping on staff with new head coach Antonio Pierce after the Raiders fumbled the hiring of Kliff Kingsbury as offensive coordinator. The team seemingly had an agreement in place to hire Kingsbury before the Texas Tech alum backtracked and joined the Commanders. Getsy was the consolation prize, and given tonight’s news, he apparently was hired on a “prove it” basis.
Scangarello joined the Raiders this season two years after being fired midseason from his offensive coordinator job with the University of Kentucky. Cregg was in his first role as an NFL offensive line coach after two years as assistant offensive line coach in San Francisco.
Through nine weeks of the season, the Raiders are 26th in total offense and 25th in points scored. Unlike his time in Chicago, Getsy has not been able to field a top rushing offense. In fact, the team’s 692 rushing yards on the season are only better than the Cowboys (who have 656 in one fewer game). This has forced Getsy and the Raiders to rely on a passing game quarterbacked by Gardner Minshew and Aidan O’Connell.
The results have been middling so far this year in terms of passing yardage, and the two passers have combined for eight touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Nine lost fumbles for the offense combine with those picks to help the Raiders rank dead-last in turnovers. The team also ranks 32nd in yards per carry, 29th in yards per play, 27th in passer rating, and 26th in offensive points per game this season.
The lackluster offense could partially be blamed on injuries that have limited expected contributors like running back Zamir White and tight end Michael Mayer. The offense was also not helped by the “injury” and eventual trade of star wide receiver Davante Adams, who only appeared in three games for Las Vegas.
Still, it is the play-caller’s job to put the players available to him in positions to succeed, and that job was not getting done in Las Vegas. Just four days ago, Pierce challenged Getsy, telling the media that Getsy’s play-calling “has to get better.” Today’s performance, which saw Minshew benched for recently signed quarterback Desmond Ridder, clearly lacked the improvement that Pierce sought. 
Today’s firing marks the fourth time in the last five seasons that the Raiders have changed either a coach or a coordinator in the middle of a season. The seemingly never-ending search for stability in the organization continues with Getsy’s dismissal. Pass game coordinator Scott Turner, formerly an offensive coordinator for the Commanders, has been tabbed as a likely replacement to take over the role of offensive coordinator, though nothing has been reported. In his three years calling plays in Washington, the team’s offense never ranked in the top half of the league.
Following the announcement of Getsy’s firing, EPSN’s Paul Gutierrez and Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal both seemed to indicate that more heads would likely roll. This could have been in reference to the dismissals of Scangarello and Cregg, reported soon after, but with the iron still hot, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see a few more names added to the fire.
Bum
Fall guy season is upon us
I’d rate this take as pretty intellectual.
Antonio pierce is basically a high school football coach who incessantly had Devante Adams and maxx crosby take a liking to him. Without the approval of those two he’d be screaming at some linebackers on some 2-7 team. What a disaster the raiders have become.
Followed by months later, Adams demanded to be traded.
At least they asked themselves the question I asked them to. Since they are obviously in the market in next years draft for a QB is Getsy the guy you want in charge of his development? Obviously the answer was nope.
AP does deserve a chance to get an actual QB. Aidan and Gardner are back ups at best.
Based on decisions like hiring Getsy and then firing most of the OC staff in mid-season, no he doesn’t deserve more time. Do you want him to wreck the development of a newly drafted QB, too?
Getsy failed miserably with Justin Fields. What made anybody think he was going to be better with Minshew and O’Connell? He was in way over his head. So is Pierce obviously. Does anybody really think Tom Brady as minority partner-Broadcaster is gonna help this at all? Make me laugh. Brady can’t even figure out which babe he wants! LMAO
Maybe Fields just sucks? No OC could fix him.
I put a lot of blame on Telesco. He failed at building anything more than a JV team and is still sitting on cap space. At this point it’s too late to make any meaningful moves unless it’s for someone like Penix, purely to get a head start for next year.
That’s fair, but it also hasn’t even been one season yet for him. He might be bad, but we won’t know for sure until he gets a chance to make some long term changes to the roster.
If Brady thinks he’s bad, though, you figure that he’ll be gone.
Did anyone really think the Raiders were going to be successful this year? A couple of nothings at QB, no running back, and a bunch of underachieving/inexperienced coaches. There are a lot of teams who failed to live up to expectations this year – but the Raiders aren’t one of them. They are who we thought they were…
You’re only as good as your QB. Had the Raiders been able to land Daniels, they would still have Adams and Getsy would still be employed. But, they failed and Getsy gets to take the blame.
it’s amazing to me that he was even hired in the first place, he’s a terrible coordinator.
Both things can be true: a team with these quarterbacks and a middling at best roster was never going to win anything in the first place AND Getsy is a bottom rung offensive coordinator and hiring him right on the back of his Bears tenure was insane. As was hiring Telesco the same offseason the Chargers finally let him go with their cap on fire.
Pierce got the full time job because the vibes were good under him. A lot of that was players despising McDaniels. Vibes don’t stay good if a team isn’t set up to move in the right direction, let alone win.
What’s sad is this team was a fringe playoff team just a few years ago. The offense was really good but defense wasn’t. It’s a good lesson in how to trash a team in a few years with a merry-go-round of GMs and HCs. Plus the relocation to Vegas, they don’t really have any home field advantage as visitor team fans usually pack the stadium, and the sky boxes are full of rich people getting entertainment and sushi who don’t care who wins.
Pierce is next, players who backed him last year aren’t backing him now…….another new regime soon, probably the Sanders family, although I don’t know if Tom Brady influence would support that
Promoted beyond his ability, enjoy college
AP is next on the chopping block
Wow, I thought going the cheap route on coaches would have worked great for the Raiders. Who knew the Bears’ old OC would fail? Head scratcher…
Pierce should have fired himself…when your defense gives up 41 points, how is the offense supposed to match that…Adams didn’t like your vibe and is gone, you have no QB. Pierce is in way over his head and is very limited in choices…maybe he catches on with an NFL team because he is “Dead” for college coaching for 8 years. This guy is toast.
You choose to play a season with Gardner Minshew and Zamir White as starters, and you expect the offense not to be terrible. Makes sense, Raiders.
The Colts almost made the playoffs w/ Minshew last year. The coaching is bad.
The only way to fix this is for Davis to completely take over the team. Owner/GM/HC/OC/DC/ST on down to water boy. First rule of the new Raider Way is every player must get his haircut. The team unity will be unmatched and they’ll go undefeated and win the SB 14 straight years. Then he retires and moves the team to Hawaii-bouncing from island to island every 4 years.
AlBUndy !!! lol thumbs up
Not to imply he’a good himself but not only inherited a bad offense but lost the best player on it mid-season … oh and the HC throwing you under the bus just days earlier was the cherry on the sundae
Well, the Antonio Pierce regime is done, jettisoning coaches is the beginning of the end….when you let the players pick the head coach this mostly happens.
My question is…why would the raiders hire him after he sucked in Chicago??? He was worse than Matt Canada
I don’t know about worse than Canada. At least, for all of his faults, Getsy has the phrase “coached an MVP” somewhere on his resume. Maybe now people will finally give Rodgers credit for that, seeing how just abjectly awful his two coaches there have been since?
I suppose now he’s free to go get hired by the Jets as a consultant…
Knowing what Rodgers is now, Do you really think Getsy got the job to teach Rodgers anything or just because he got paid to stay out of the way? I know what I think.
I would suspect that we may agree.
Now Getsy can join the Jets with the rest of his fellow Packers. Keep putting the band back together.
Well it didn’t take long for Tom Brady to start house cleaning 🙂
Brady dumped Bridget Moynihan for Giselle Bundchen. His decision making already sucks.
I thought Gronk had taught him the value of a good tight end.
So let me get this straight. Pierce brought in a guy who already failed as an OC elsewhere, did not develop the QB correctly as a passer and yet he took a chance on him. Then he proceeds to get a QB in Minshew who everyone and their mothers knew wasn’t a starting caliber QB for a full 17 game schedule, then proceeds to double down and have a 2nd year O’Connell who isn’t a difference maker in his rookie year. Then he decides to bench Minshew three different times during the season, and has horrible in-game adjustments and already lost the locker room and the fans, yet he is still given a chance? Oh and thinks his team would be better off after letting go Josh Jacobs, the ONE weapon you had last year at the RB position.
This is why the Raiders are the Raiders. No stability, zero direction, zero identity, no talent outside of Bowers/Crosby.
This is why you don’t hire interim coaches based on emotions, feelings and other stuff. This isn’t a Hallmark greeting card type of job, this is a coach for one of the most recognizable franchises in the league.
New City, same old Raider BS.
If Pierce gets canned at the end of the season, or 2 weeks from now, is there a difference between either of those options or doing it today? They’re not turning it around for a while so what’s the rush? It’s not like they can replace him with Lombardi, the QB’s with (prime) Brady, and the rest of the roster with actual NFL caliber talent (obviously a few exceptions exist).
Lmao in another universe Micheal Penix is the starting QB of the raiders and maybe they’re at least 4-5
Pierce should fire himself….