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Paul Gutierrez, ESPN Staff Writer
HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders have fired offensive coordinator Luke Getsy after nine games, the team announced Friday night.
The Raiders also fired offensive line coach James Cregg and quarterbacks coach Rich Scangarello, both of whom, like Getsy, were in their first seasons with Las Vegas.
The team is riding its first five-game losing streak since 2018 and shares the NFL’s worst record at 2-7 after Sunday’s 41-24 loss at the Cincinnati Bengals. Getsy’s offense, while getting off to a fast start by scoring on opening-drive touchdowns in four of its past five games in Las Vegas, has been stuck in the game.
The Raiders scored just four touchdowns on 50 other drives in the same time frame, with three of the TDs coming in the final five minutes of the game with the Raiders trailing by at least 20 points, according to the Associated Press.
“It wasn’t a good day at the office,” Raiders coach Antonio Pierce said after Sunday’s loss, a game tied 10-10 late in the second quarter.
“It’s for all of us. I mean, it’s a group effort. It’s a team effort. We all have to find ways to do better. We want to pinpoint this game and look at a lot of things, from the coach to play calling to the players to the execution in the situation that we can all do a better job and put ourselves in a position to go into the fourth quarter and actually have a chance to win – not always playing catch-up.
Getsy, the creator of the NFL’s No. 1 offense It was No. 18 in passing and No. 31 in rushing, and the Raiders’ average of 18.0 points per game was 26th in the NFL.
Getsy said this week that the idea of ”scripting” plays early in the game is a false narrative.
“I know you like the buzzword,” he said, “but it’s not real. … You go through a plan, you have a plan. So, they called it when we were on the 35-yard line, and that’s what we’re going to do. to attack them with When we’re on the 25-yard line, this is the way we’re going to attack them the way we’re going to attack them and nothing different. So, this is how we’re going to open the game , this is the way we will do it after we get and collect the information.
“So, there’s no script. There’s no staged stuff. It’s focus and attention to detail. … We just have to keep improving that execution part, to make it last four quarters. .”
Getsy, who was fired by the Bears in January, was hired by the Raiders in February after former Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury withdrew from consideration.
Getsy had moved from the field to the press box to call plays before the Raiders’ loss at the Los Angeles Chargers two weeks ago.
Sunday marked the fourth time in the past five campaigns the Raiders have changed coordinators or head coaches in the middle of the season.
The Raiders, preparing for their bye week, also replaced starting quarterback Gardner Minshew with Desmond Ridder late in the third quarter against the Bengals.
