Three coaches have paid the price for the Raiders’ disastrous season.
Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce fired offensive coordinator Luke Getsy, as well as offensive line coach James Cregg and quarterbacks coach Rich Scangarello, the team announced, after the Raiders were embarrassed by the Bengals on Sunday, 41-24.
The move comes somewhat as a surprise, as it’s the first full season for the coaching staff.
“The guys kept battling to the very end, I appreciate them for it,” Pierce said after the game via Sports Illustrated. “It’s a group effort, it’s a team effort. We all got to find a way to do better. We will pinpoint and look at a lot of things from coaches to playcalling, to players, to execution, to situations, so that we all do a better job and put us in a position in the fourth quarter to actually have a chance to win instead of playing catch up.”
Las Vegas has a bye week to get things figured out, as Getsy led the Raiders to the fourth-worst yards-per-play average in the NFL (4.6).
Getsy came over from the Bears, acting as their offensive coordinator from 2022-2023 and working mostly with now-Steelers backup Justin Fields.
Former Commanders offensive coordinator Scott Turner is expected to take over for Getsy in the hopes of turning around one of the league’s worst offenses that also traded star receiver Davante Adams to the Jets earlier this year.
The dysfunctional Raiders have now switched coordinators or head coaches midseason for the fourth time in five years.
Pierce, a first-year head coach after having some success as the interim last year, hasn’t been shy about saying that poor performance will result in mass changes.
Previously, Pierce told reporters earlier this year that his players were not giving maximum effort and making “business decisions,” which perhaps not so coincidentally preceded the trade of Adams.
Pierce has also flip-flopped quarterbacks all season, relieving Gardner Minshew mid-game multiple times, including during Sunday’s loss.
Minshew had been benched for Aidan O’Connell, but the second-year quarterback immediately fractured his thumb thrusting Minshew back into the starting role.
Desmond Ridder replaced Minshew in Cincinnati.
Las Vegas limps into the bye week at 2-7.
