Those who wanted Rich Bisaccia fired got what they wanted. Sort of. I guess.
By hook or by crook, Bisaccia is out in Green Bay. He’s done. The man hired to fix the Packers’ special teams but didn’t will now go off to do whatever former special teams coaches do in retirement.
Is that a good thing? Possibly. It’s not like the Packers’ special teams have been setting the world on fire, but they also haven’t been horrible in the areas where the team actually tries to compete.
“Well, shouldn’t they try to compete in all areas of special teams?” Sure, but you’re preaching to the choir, and the Packers didn’t show up to church today. There are clear organizational priorities affecting how the Packers perform on special teams, and those seem unlikely to change no matter who’s running the show.
That’s why it may not be that big of a deal that the Packers are getting into the special teams coordinator market a bit late. Whoever gets the job, be it a retread or a no-name up-and-coming youngster, is going to be limited by the same forces that prevented Bisaccia from putting his best players on the field to block on field goal protection or using an actual returner for kickoffs and punts.
All that to say, whoever follows Bisaccia is probably going to put up pretty similar results — at best. Things could always get worse, and now that Bisaccia is the former special teams coordinator of the Green Bay packers, we’re about to find out if they will.
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The poor results may depend on what stats you’re looking at, but
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The player is Keisean Nixon, who has spent his entire career being coached by Bisaccia in some capacity.
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