The Raiders fired offensive coordinator Luke Getsy on Sunday and the team is still working through options for his replacement.
Pass game coordinator Scott Turner is considered the favorite to take over as offensive coordinator, but head coach Antonio Pierce told reporters on Monday that he has not decided who will call plays or who will play quarterback when the Raiders return from the bye week.
Turner is in his second season with the Raiders and is the son of Norv Turner, whose NFL coaching career began in the mid-1980’s. The elder Turner was the head coach of the Oakland Raiders in 2004 and 2005, and according to a CBS report on Monday, he is a candidate to join the Raiders’ coaching staff again.
CBS Sports insider Jonathan Jones said the 72 year-old Turner is being considered for an undetermined role on Pierce’s staff, while his son is likely to assume the coordinator position.
If he is added to the Raiders’ staff, Turner would become the third assistant in the building with NFL head-coaching experience.
Marvin Lewis and Joe Philbin are the others.
There was a report last week that some assistant coaches on Pierce’s staff have “checked out” after a rough start to the season, but that report was disputed by Sports Illustrated insider Hondo Carpenter.
“I don’t respond to other people’s reporting, but I can tell you, anyone that says Marvin Lewis is just taking checks and has already checked out absolutely has no clue what they’re talking about<” Hondo said last week on the Las Vegas Raiders Insider podcast. “That is not Marvin Lewis. He will be as engaged as [Antonio Pierce] wants him to be.”
At this stage in the game, Pierce is essentially where he was a year ago. He’s coaching for his job.
The difference this year is that Pierce isn’t cleaning up another head coaches mess. Additionally, the team’s best offensive player quit in the first month of the season and injuries are beginning to pile up.
Pierce and his coaching staff will be under a microscope for the remainder of the season and former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon believes it will be an uphill climb for the Pierce to hold on to his job.
“At some point you have to look at the whole operation. I’m hoping that’s what is going to happen at the end of the season,” Gannon told Michael Lombardi on VSiN Live. “I can’t imagine Antonio Pierce will be back next year.”
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Good choice he’s a good offensive coordinator…offense needs direction on how to attack the second half of the season and finish… no more trade rumors or waisted pickups… focus on the rest of the season and evaluate players during the second half of the season… right now get a new game plan going and teach them to improvise and not give up when a play breaks down … hope you give them 2 days off first then back at it…
Why? Mark Davis and Antonio Pierce know it isn’t 2010, right? Between Lewis, Philbin, Coughlin, apparently Hue Jackson(!!!), do they have anyone who is clued into the NFL in 2024 around? It’s really, really starting to look like end-stage Al Davis again.
I think AP is a hard nose no nonsense football coach with a lot of the nuances of coaching in this era to be learned. I hope they keep him around. I think if he learns enough before the end of the year they should because I think he will be a good coach for many years to come. he has the attitude MADDEN did with the Oakland Raiders had and I think will be good to pass on to the Las Vegas Raiders now. He has enough good coaches surrounding him that he should be able to pull this out. I know there’s a lot of injuries right now and we still need a good quarterback , but I think with a good quarterback coach, we could build one if we can’t Get one in the draft. The OAKLAND RAIDERS used to pick up players that nobody wanted and they became stars. Maybe we need to do that again. MATUSACK, ALZADO, PLUNKETT ETC.
If Scott can’t stand on his own 2 feet by now, he’s never gonna make it in the NFL. Norv Is an antique. We need innovative play calling, and if Scott doesn’t know that maybe they need to advance a kid from within. Lewis and the other antique haven’t helped have they?
If so, hopefully this is a stopgap move as this guy is older and the game has changed since he ran the Cowboys SB offense. We need cutting edge coaches.
I said it already. Old school isn’t working, old school is not the answer! Now if you want to try old school football fundamentals you might be on to something. You have to many freelancers and drama queens on the team, no one is learning from MC , your best player. Enemies or not you need to learn from Andy Reid!!