Packers Daily: Rich Bisaccia gets a contract extension
Aaron reacts to the news that the Green Bay Packers have extended special teams coordinator and assistant head coach Rich Bisaccia's contract.
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Comments (25)
Brushwolf
January 27, 2025 at 02:59 pm
This is genuinely embarrassing for the team. Reminds me of the level of quality for our expectations in the good ole Shawn Slocum days. Most teams look at a special teams play as a way to win a game, not just to survive the outcome. Short of finally finding a kicker who doesn't lose games for the team, we are definitely heading back to those 'good ole Slocum days'.
KenEllis
January 27, 2025 at 07:08 pm
Rewarding mediocrity, or in Bisaccia's case less than mediocrity, is never a good look.
crayzpackfan
January 27, 2025 at 03:09 pm
Of course he got an extension.
Brushwolf
January 27, 2025 at 03:14 pm
He's a friend of MLF like Slocum was a friend of MM. Stay chummy with the boss and quality of production doesn't matter, He's reportedly the highest paid ST coach in the league!?? He would look great in purple.
Packers0808
January 27, 2025 at 05:05 pm
I often wonder why besides the ST position he is also te Asst Head coach. Those duties must also be very stressful. Think people actually have no idea what this man has to try and do in both of these positions, not just one thing to concentrate on.
dblbogey
January 27, 2025 at 03:45 pm
The biggest problem I have is Bisaccia pushed for the drafting of Anders Carlson, and said he could turn him into a kicker, even though I think his college stats were around 68%. Then, Carlson cost us at least 2 regular season games and they stubbornly stuck with him. Then he killed us with the miss in round 2 of the playoffs. Bisaccia was supposedly a special teams guru, and did have success prior to Green Bay.
NFLfan
January 27, 2025 at 04:27 pm
The Packers Brass are clearly more interested in keeping their jobs and scratching each other's backs than creating a winning team.
This team used to be so exciting to watch, particularly during the Rodgers, Jordy, Driver, Davante era.
This team is not that team.
I'm not going care more than they do.
iamiz
January 27, 2025 at 05:05 pm
No accountability
This from the GM who wants to finally start competing for championships.
Instead, business as usual. There are reasons some teams go to the superbowl and some don’t.
This reeks of Mediocrity.
Rant over.
Coldworld
January 27, 2025 at 05:26 pm
Gute does not hire the coaches under the post TT structure, for the millionth time. It’s not a secret!
Coldworld
January 27, 2025 at 05:31 pm
Bissacia has produced better ST play than we’ve had before but not as good as I’d hoped for. The biggest problem for me is the insistence on bringing it out if the end zone so regularly and seemingly unhelpfully overall. The kicking fiasco got fixed (at least for last season), but Bissacia’s role in it remains a question too murky to define. If he’s staying, I hope the voiced expectation is for a top 10 unit next year, otherwise it could just be seen as the easy option.
LaFleur just seems so complacent. Getsy is a lost opportunity to infuse new ideas and practices. Will he be good? I doubt he will be a voice challenge to LaFleur. More a dependent type, which LaFleur seems to prefer but true leaders avoid if they can.
splitpea1
January 27, 2025 at 05:47 pm
Bisaccia is also the highest paid ST coach in the league, so the on-field performance should reflect that, at or least somewhere close to it. And rarely are there ever any clever surprise plays that are well-executed and catch the opponent off guard. Did you see the NFCCG with the punter passing to the backup tight end? That was a good one.
Agreed with Nixon bringing it out so often. I think the coaching staff got enamored with the great half-season he had a couple of years ago and they can't let it go.
iamiz
January 27, 2025 at 06:08 pm
“Better” than bad is mediocrity. What percentage of returns do we get a flag on; I’d say it’s north of 50%. Good isn’t good enough. We need very-good to great to get to the Superbowl. In all phases.
Alberta_Packer
January 27, 2025 at 05:45 pm
Perhaps MLF learned his lesson with the hiring of Hafley. A relative unknown to MLF but in one season he (Hafley) proved how bad Berry (a MLF pal) was - while demonstrating that he may be a better NFL coach than MLF. However, MLF is not entirely daft - so every hire since Hafley has been re-cycled used parts and old pals. MLFs motto - "Conservatio sui = self-preservation = preservation of oneself?"
NFLfan
January 27, 2025 at 06:44 pm
@AP-That is an interesting point.-self preservation
Alberta_Packer
January 27, 2025 at 08:10 pm
Many leadership courses state, "Hire the smartest person you can find!" Yet many managers (coaches) shy away from hiring sharp and talented people. Rather they hire someone "safer" and more "pliable." However when one producer outperforms the rest - like Hafley - they actually become a threat to the status quo. The reality is that corporate / organizational uniformity and mediocrity is rewarded far more than excellence. Ergo the post-Hafley hires.
NFLfan
January 27, 2025 at 09:25 pm
Fascinating--Yes, perhaps that is why MLF may consider Getsy as a Jordan's coach. GB invests 55M in their QB and may arrange for an average coach?
The part I don't get is the frequent public humiliation MLF undergoes when the team loses or has an 'ugly win.' Why wouldn't he do everything possible, like hiring the best coaches or bring in an offensive mind, etc., to rectify that frequent embarrassment?
FWIW-I also think Murphy hired 2 persons who were 'safer' and more 'pliable'.
Another guess is that Hafley will move on to greener pastures.
Alberta_Packer
January 28, 2025 at 12:17 pm
I think that MLF coaches to the limit of his knowledge and experience - which unfortunately falls short against better coaches. It's as if in Chess - a Grandmaster playing a Class A player. A Class A player could win a game but the Grandmaster will invariably win the match.
As for Murphy - I soured on him in the last few years. He strayed outside his role as President - wanting to play GM - thus usurping Gutekunst. Murphy does not possess the qualifications to be a GM.
Hafley's star is rising. Another or better year than this season - he will be interviewing for more HC positions. Personally, I hope one such interview is for the HC of the GBP.
the_gavia_pass
January 28, 2025 at 02:18 am
almost all players on D regressed with hafley. he had mostly very bad games and saved them only in garbage time...vikings where 28-0 and then slowed down their play and there hafley got better stats but just because the vikings did not play anymore!
in crucial times our D was terrible (as usual in the past 15 years) but barry last year sometimes saved mlf ass
packer132
January 28, 2025 at 06:42 am
Bisaccia started coaching at age 23 in college and spent 20 years teaching mostly special teams. Then he went to the NFL and worked with 5 teams coaching special teams for the last 22 years. I was happy that he left the Raiders to come to Green Bay, as he came in as a tough and knowledgeable coach. He got the worst grade from PFF out of 32 teams in 2024. The year before GB was 29th in special teams and 22nd the year before. This season will be Bisaccia's 4th with the team and we still see penalties and dumb plays (Nixon trying to run it back from 5 yards deep and he gets to the 15 yard line. Packers had 19 ST penalties (worst) while Chargers had 4 penalties. If LaFleur wanted to retain him as a consultant, fine but again Matt took the safe route by not seeking a new ST coach. Not the news I wanted to hear.
Since'61
January 28, 2025 at 08:49 am
This is a perfect example of why I post that there is something systemically wrong with the Packers organization. The Packers STs were ranked 32nd or dead last in the league in 2024. Bisaccia was brought in specifically to improve our STs and after 2 seasons we're last in the league.
Bisaccia is the perfect answer to the question; "Why are the Packers STs ranked 32nd in the league? Answer; Because there is no 33 or worse to rank them."
Is this the message that the Packers want to send to their players? That dead last is acceptable.
This is just an atrocious example of lack of accountability on the part of Packers management. Thanks, Since '61
packerbackerjim
January 28, 2025 at 10:52 am
My reply to a Packer buddy: Was no one better available”?
NFLfan
January 28, 2025 at 09:47 am
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NJ-RICK
January 28, 2025 at 10:35 am
Maybe Policy will bring in a new GM also...? Gute is weak, poor drafting and free agent additions.
Leatherhead
January 28, 2025 at 11:29 am
Well, Nixon's fumble was a big play in the playoff loss. We also missed a makeable field goal. I keep saying it, and I'll keep saying it: Stop giving your special teams opportunities to hurt you.
davekenya
January 28, 2025 at 02:24 pm
It's difficult to definitively say that younger teams are always worse on special teams - GB youngest team while Bisaccia here.) There are many factors that influence special teams performance, and age is just one of them. Some studies have shown a correlation between team age and special teams performance, but it's not a strong correlation.
Ultimately, the success of a special teams unit depends on a combination of factors:
Talent: Having players with the necessary physical and mental attributes. GB seems to draft more guys with high RAS scores. Are they just not a mentally there?
Coaching: Providing effective instruction and developing a sound scheme. Bisaccia, you're up.
Experience: Gaining valuable game experience and building chemistry. Low - due to young team age.
Effort: Putting in the hard work and dedication required to excel. Two things: with a younger squad, players (rightly?) are more fixated on learning their regular roster positions well (so they're not cut). With a young squad, does MLF (rightly?) spend more practice time on O and D - so these players know what to do and less time dedicated to STs? Pack reporters and practice observers could weigh in...