Raiders reportedly fire offensive coordinator Luke Getsy after 2-7 start, loss to Bengals

After a rough start to the season, the Las Vegas Raiders are moving on from offensive coordinator Luke Getsy.

The Raiders fired Getsy on Sunday night, according to The NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero. The decision came just hours after the team fell 41-24 to the Cincinnati Bengals, which dropped them to 2-7 on the season.

Passing game coordinator Scott Turner, who spent three seasons as the offensive coordinator with the Washington Commanders from 2020-2022, is expected to take over as their interim offensive coordinator the rest of the way.

Getsy was in his first season as the Raiders’ offensive coordinator this fall. He spent the last two seasons in the same role with the Chicago Bears after a long stint as an offensive assistant with the Green Bay Packers.

The decision to split with Getsy isn’t too surprising, considering the warning that head coach Antonio Pierce gave him earlier this week. He said specifically that Getsy’s play-calling “has to get better,” and that many of their failed opportunities to put points on the board were “on the play-caller.”

The Raiders entered Sunday’s game averaging the sixth-fewest points in the league per game and holding the second-fewest rushing yards. They’ve bounced between quarterbacks Gardner Minshew, Aidan O’Connell and Desmond Ridder, too, and traded away top receiver Davante Adams away to the New York Jets.

Despite Pierce’s comments, Sunday in Cincinnati wasn’t any better. Minshew and Ridder combined for just 157 passing yards and a single touchdown, which Ridder threw in the final minute of the game. The Raiders had just 60 rushing yards as a team, too, and both Ridder and Minshew fumbled the ball away at one point during the contest.

Joe Burrow, on the other hand, threw for 251 yards and five touchdowns in the win for the Bengals. Chase Brown ran for 120 yards on 27 carries, and Mike Gesicki had 100 yards and two touchdowns on five catches.

The loss was the Raiders’ fifth straight. Pierce said after the game that “everything” needed to be look at as they enter their bye week. That, apparently, started with firing Getsy.

Pierce is in his first full season as the Raiders’ head coach. He took over as their interim head coach last season when the team fired coach Josh McDaniels last November, and he finished with a 5-4 record. He now holds just a 7-10 record with the franchise as any shot at a playoff spot — which would be the team’s first since 2021 — appears to be about out of reach this fall.