Sources: Raiders anticipated to rent Luke Getsy as offensive coordinator

HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders are anticipated to rent Luke Getsy as their subsequent offensive coordinator, sources informed ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler late Saturday night time. The report comes hours after former Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury eliminated himself from consideration.

Getsy, 39, fired by the Chicago Bears as offensive coordinator final month, was considered one of not less than 5 candidates the Raiders interviewed for the vacant offensive playcaller place. Kingsbury, former Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt, Pittsburgh Steelers receivers coach Mike Sullivan and UCLA coach Chip Kelly, had been among the many others. Van Pelt was employed to be the New England Patriots offensive coordinator whereas Kingsbury has been linked to the vacant Washington Commanders offensive coordinator place.

In his reintroductory information convention final month, Raiders coach Antonio Pierce mentioned he wished a “minimal 24 factors” out of a brand new offensive coordinator, after the Raiders averaged 19.5 factors per recreation below former coach Josh McDaniels and interim offensive coordinator Bo Hardegree.

To common 24 factors, the Raiders would want to attain 408 factors, a mark they’ve solely hit 3 times since their 2002 Tremendous Bowl season.

Pierce mentioned an incoming offensive coordinator must be a trainer who can “alter on the fly” throughout video games.

“You’ve got bought to have the ability to run the soccer — play-action move,” Pierce mentioned. “What are the Raiders identified for? The vertical passing recreation, proper? We need to see the photographs down the sector. We would like the explosive performs. That needs to be part of the creativity. You have a look at the shifts, the motions, all that stuff goes into it … simply consider when [the] Raiders had been enjoying actually good soccer, and that is going to be your offensive coordinator, hopefully, as we go ahead.”

Getsy brings that run-heavy mentality that Pierce and new normal supervisor Tom Telesco like. The Bears led the NFL in dashing in 2022 (177.3 yards per recreation) and completed second in 2023 (141.1).

That is the great.

The dangerous? The Bears had been final in passing offense in 2022 (130.5) and twenty seventh final season (182.1); they averaged 21.2 factors per recreation.

A probably intriguing plot twist is Getsy’s relationship with Bears quarterback Justin Fields. Fields is perhaps a Las Vegas commerce goal with the Raiders, who maintain the No. 13 total draft choose and are more likely to transfer on from veteran Jimmy Garoppolo. Whereas rookie Aidan O’Connell confirmed himself to be serviceable as a backup, he was motionless within the pocket.

Getsy was fired in Chicago on Jan. 10, after the membership determined to shake up the employees, however stored coach Matt Eberflus for the 2024 season. The Bears completed 7-10, tied for final place within the NFC North with the Minnesota Vikings.

The Raiders, in the meantime, went 8-9, together with a lackluster 31-12 Week 7 loss at Chicago with undrafted Bears rookie quarterback Tyson Bagent (filling in for an injured Fields). The defeat led to McDaniels’ dismissal on Oct. 31.

Underneath Pierce, promoted from linebackers coach to interim coach, the Raiders went 5-4, 3-1 within the AFC West and handed the convention champion Kansas Metropolis Chiefs their most up-to-date loss on Christmas Day.

And although they scored 357 factors, Raiders quarterbacks mixed for simply an 80.1 QBR score.

In Chicago, participant frustrations over the Bears’ offense confirmed a number of occasions in the course of the 2023 season, starting in Week 3 when Fields pointed to “teaching” as the explanation behind his “robotic” play. Extensive receiver DJ Moore additionally indicated a scarcity of constant explosive performs brought on Chicago to fall brief.

“The expansion and the event of the offense, to me, wanted to be higher than what it was,” Eberflus mentioned after the season. “You have a look at the passing recreation, actually that is one side of it. And that is the place it’s. We determined to maneuver on from that.”

Getsy’s offense in Chicago ranked seventeenth in offensive factors per recreation (20.4), its highest mark since rating eleventh in 2018, in keeping with ESPN Stats & Data analysis.

Sports activities Illustrated was first to report information of Getsy’s hiring.