It seems losing to Shedeur Sanders in his first NFL start with the Cleveland Browns was the final straw in Las Vegas.
Mere hours after the game, the Las Vegas Raiders fired offensive coordinator Chip Kelly, and they sent his “right-hand man” and buddy, senior offensive assistant Bob Bicknell, packing alongside him.
It’s a major shake-up, and the rub is that quarterbacks coach Greg Olson (no, not that Greg Olsen) has been elevated to the role of interim offensive coordinator for the Silver and Black.
Greg Olson has been named as the interim OC, his third stint in the role. Https://t.co/PREVrJ2jpO
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) November 24, 2025
While a shake-up within the staff usually results in slightly better play for a few weeks—the infamous “new coach bump”—that trend is unlikely to hold for Vegas here. As Ian Rapoport mentioned in his report, this is Olson’s third time serving as the Raiders’ offensive coordinator.
Not just his third stint as an NFL offensive coordinator, his third with this franchise. And one would think that they would have learned their lesson about Olson by now. The 62-year-old has bounced around the league constantly since the turn of the century, always serving as an OC or a QBs coach, but never making that jump to head coach.
And that makes sense. The offensive units he has coordinated over the years paint a pretty bleak picture for his ability to improve this 2025 Raiders unit, which is supported by stars like Ashton Jeanty and Brock Bowers and not much else.
Greg Olson has had very little success in 15 seasons as an NFL OC
In 2005, after Steve Mariucci and much of his staff were fired, Greg Olson was promoted from QBs coach to interim OC. The Lions finished 28th in scoring offense and 27th in total offense that season.
He was then hired to be the OC for the St. Louis Rams in 2006, and he found some success, though that won’t become a theme here. The offense was loaded with stars like Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce, and they finished 10th in scoring and sixth in total offense. But the bottom fell out the very next year, as the Rams finished 3-13 while fielding a bottom-five scoring offense.
He then served as the QBs coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a few years before moving up to a stint as OC from 2009-2011. The Bucs scored 18.2 points per game during his tenure in charge, which was fourth-fewest in the league over that span.
No doubt, you are starting to notice the pattern. Olson then went to the Jags for a year before landing another OC job, this time with the Raiders. Olson’s offense was bad in 2013, but it was even uglier in 2014, when his unit finished second-last in scoring and last in total offense.
Yet somehow, he got another job with the Jags as their OC in 2015 and 2016. Those offenses were mediocre once again, but just two years later, Olson was back with the Raiders in his familiar position.
He held that job for four years, with the Raiders scoring the 10th-fewest points in the league during that time. He went back to quarterback coaching for a couple of years after that. But this year, the Raiders came calling again, and wouldn’t you know it, he’s found himself in the OC chair for the Silver and Black.
What’s that saying about repeating the same action over and over and expecting a different result?