Las Vegas Raiders Cater Offensive Coaching to Davante Adams; 3 Former Green Bay Packers Coaches on Staff
The Las Vegas Raiders are putting their best foot forward after a disastrous 2023 season. They fired head coach Josh McDaniels midway through the season and had one of the most embarrassing quarterback rooms in the NFL. While Antonio Pierce was able to salvage some kind of respectability, it does not change the fact that the Raiders woefully underperformed.
This is especially true on offense. Jimmy Garoppolo did not pan out; Bryan Hoyer performed as expected in his lone start (not well); and Aiden O’Donnell was average. Besides the quarterback position, Josh Jacobs and Davante Adams both had down years.
In 2023, Adams played all 17 games, recoding 103 catches for 1,144 yards and eight touchdowns. Now that would be a great year for any other wide receiver, but it was a down year by Adams’ standards. In fact, it was his worst statistical year since 2019.
During that 2019 season with the Green Bay Packers, Adams had 83 receptions for 997 yards and five touchdowns. Oh, and he only played in 12 games.
Between 2020 and 2022, Adams averaged 112 catches, 1,481 yards, and 14 touchdowns per season. He led the NFL in touchdowns twice in that span and set a Packers’ franchise record for receiving yards in a season.
So, as crazy as it sounds, 103 catches for 1,144 yards and eight touchdowns is, literally, a down year for the six-time Pro Bowler.
But it is a down year the Raiders can build on, and they proved that they are planning to by hiring/retaining three of his former coaches from his days in Green Bay.
Las Vegas Raiders Offensive Coordinator Luke Getsy
Obviously, the biggest name is that of offensive coordinator Luke Getsy, who was Adams’ wide receivers coach from 2016-17 in Green Bay. Prior to that, he was an offensive quality control coach with the Packers from 2014-15. Adams, of course, was drafted in 2014.
2016, by the way, was the year that Adams took the next step in his NFL career. Prior to that season, he had a combined 88 catches for 929 yards and four touchdowns. In 2016, he had 75 receptions for 997 yards and 12 touchdowns. The next season, he made his first Pro Bowl.
