The Las Vegas Raiders made the somewhat surprising decision to hire former Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getsy to the same position on their coaching staff. Why surprising? Well, the Bears ranked 20th in total offense in 2023 and 28th in 2022. Justin Fields displayed virtually no progression from his first year with Getsy to his second. His firing in Chicago was not surprising, but the fact he got another offensive coordinator gig so quickly after burning out with the Bears certainly was.
So, why did the Raiders feel like Getsy was deserving of another shot?
Luke Getsy Was Davante Adams’ Wide Receivers Coach with the Green Bay Packers
The answer begins and ends with the Raiders’ best offensive player: Davante Adams. Most people remember Getsy as the Green Bay Packers’ quarterbacks coach and the work he did with Aaron Rodgers and Jordan Love. However, before he was the Packers’ quarterbacks coach, he helped develop Adams into a perennial Pro Bowl wide receiver.
Adams’ first two seasons in Green Bay were terrible, at least by his standards now. In fact, Adams dropped so many passes that many fans wanted him cut in training camp of his third season. But it was in that third season that Getsy was promoted from offensive quality control coach to wide receivers coach.
In his first two NFL seasons, Adams averaged just 44 receptions, 464.5 yards, and two touchdowns per season. Once Getsy took over as his position coach, Adams took off. 2016 saw Adams record 75 receptions, 997 yards, and 12 touchdowns. He made the Pro Bowl in 2017, his second season working with Getsy, catching 74 passes for 885 yards and 10 touchdowns. It was the first of six-straight Pro Bowl seasons for Adams.
In 2018, Getsy left to be the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at Mississippi State. However, he was back in Green Bay in 2019, only this time as the quarterbacks coach. In 2020, Getsy was named quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator, the title he held until the Bears hired him as offensive coordinator in 2022.
Las Vegas Raiders Offensive Coordinator Luke Getsy Opens Up About His Relationship with Davante Adams
According to Brayden P. Reedy of Sports Illustrated, Getsy had the following to say about his relationship with Adams during their days with the Packers:
“Davante entered the world in Green Bay; that is how I was raised in this business, in that Mike McCarthy west coast style, and there’s the west coast is a general term now there’s a different flavor of it that everyone has kind of taken with and I think we’ll have our own as well.
“When you’re working with a guy like Davante, I walked into a room as a young receiver’s coach and connected to him quickly. He was in the middle of a room with Randall Cobb and Jordy Nelson, who had, you know, at the peaks of their career and accomplishing all these things and had been to Pro Bowls. Davante aspired to do that and more and connected well, and our relationship was such that.
“You’re talking about one of the most spatial aware people I’ve ever been around and someone who’s able to take information and make the most of it, and that is Tae.”
If Getsy can have the same effect on the Raiders offense as he had on Adams in 2016, Las Vegas could very well be on its way up in 2024.
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