After parting ways with Luke Getsy, the Las Vegas Raiders named Pass Game Coordinator Scott Turner the team’s Interim Offensive Coordinator.
Turner received his first opportunity to call plays at the end of the 2019 season with the Carolina Panthers, being promoted from quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator. Following that, he with the Washington Commanders for three seasons (2020-22) as their offensive coordinator.
Now in his second season with the Silver and Black, he’ll be leaning on those past experiences to calls plays for the third time in his NFL coaching career.
“This league is tough,” Scott Turner said Thursday morning. “It’s very competitive. You got to bring it every day.
Different people are going to play you different ways. Certain matchups are going to favor you schematically more than others. But really, it’s just dealing with the people. This is a relationship business, and you got to understand what your guys on your team do the best, and then try to find a way to get that out of them and then get them to perform at the highest level every single week.”
He’s taking over an offense that ranks 18th in passing yards per game, 32nd in rushing yards per game and 24th in points per game. While implementing a brand-new offense in the middle of the season is an impractical solution, Head Coach Antonio Pierce is hopeful Turner’s adjustments to the offensive operation will lead to increased success.
“Just wanted a change, wanted a spark, wanted different ideas. … So, getting some more ideas, some outside ideas, different perspectives, game planning, how to attack the weakest link, how to get our players in the best position to be successful. That’s what I’m looking forward to,” Antonio Pierce said Wednesday.
“Being efficient in the running game, taking care of the football, having opportunities in the red zone, scoring, all those things that were flaws for us in the first nine, that’s where we want to see improvement. The key word for us going forward, especially this week, is improvement.”
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