Raiders’ quick slants: Bengals edition

Apparently, Las Vegas Raiders decision makers were so sick of Trey Hendrickson wrecking the offensive gameplans single handedly, someone had to go.

And that someone was offensive coordinator Luke Getsy . After yet another hapless outing from Getsy's Raiders offense and heading into a much-needed bye week, Las Vegas wasted little time making a change as the play caller wasn't the only one fired.

The Cincinnati Bengals defensive end showed the Raiders what a difference-making edge rusher is supposed to do by racking up an impressive four sacks on Sunday helping power the home team's 41-24 drubbing of the visiting Raiders on Sunday afternoon.

Make that five losses in a row, now.

Getsy's final game in Silver & Black was certainly a fire able offense.

While it started out well enough an 11-play, 70-yard opening drive that saw five-straight pass plays before running back Zamir White sprinted in for a two-yard touchdown, that was the lone end zone visit the Raiders (2-7 overall) had — on offense — until there was 41 seconds left in the ball game.

Las Vegas trailed 17-10 at halftime but was boat raced by Cincinnati in the second half. While the Bengals (4-5 overall) put together three touchdown drives in the second half, the Raiders coughed up the ball on one drive, punted three consecutive drives, turned the ball over on downs, fumbled again, all before the final six-play, 70-yard scoring drive.

It was such an impotent outing that Las Vegas benched Gardner Minshew (again) for recently signed Desmond Ridder at quarterback and, not surprisingly, that didn't move the needle. The former absorbed one sack while the latter was dropped four times. Although, Ridder did fling the Raiders' lone touchdown pass of the afternoon — a 22-yard dart to rookie tight end Brock Bowers with 41 ticks left.

A total of 157 yards passing, 60 yards rushing (on 21 carries for a putrid 2.9 yards per carry average) all equated itself into Getsy, offensive line coach James Cregg, and quarterbacks coach Rich Scangarello getting waxed.

All eyes will turn to who Las Vegas anoints as replacements for the trio of coaches — passing game coordinator Scott Turner has play calling experience, as does senior offensive assistant Joe Philbin, while Fred Walker is the assistant quarterbacks coach.

But, I can't lie: Head coach Antonio Pierce's all-time quote when Getsy was hired to run his offense echoed in my head when the firings hit the wire: "He whooped our ass when we played them," Pierce said, referring to Getsy orchestrating a Chicago Bears offense that steamrolled the then-Josh McDaniels Raiders 30-12 Week 7 last season.

A keep-an-eye-on byproduct of Getsy's dismissal will be finding out if the unbearable conservatism on offense was solely on the former play caller's shoulders or on the head coach's.

Perhaps the sudden change in the offensive staff results in a more consistent offense that possesses the ball regularly to give the defense much-needed breathers. Because what was supposed to be the strength of the team — Patrick Graham's defense — has waned in effectiveness.