Rich Bisaccia, “stepping down,” as ST Coach and Associate Head Coach in Green Bay.

CUE THE ANDY DUFRESNE GIF AGAIN!

Man, FanDuel Sports Network is dead in Wisconsin AND we move on from Rich Bisaccia in the same two weeks??? Who’s got it better than us in 2026?!? NOOOOBODDDYYYY.

A few things on the Rich Bisaccia news yesterday:

• I know I put the Dufresne gif in there, but that’s as far as we’re going to go with ‘celebrating’ someone losing their job. I don’t care how much money that person makes, or how lackluster they may or may not have been at their job. I’m not in the business of doing the lambada when someone gets canned. I would appreciate the same from everyone reading this when I “step down” from my on-air/internet post.
• While I think Packer fans end up getting what they wanted, I will say the timing and phrasing of this news is, in a word, peculiar. Both LaFleur and Gutey expressed public confidence in Rich and his ST unit at various press conferences after the Wild Card loss in Chicago. So 38 days after the season ends, when the coaching cycle around the league is basically over, it is odd that he is all of a sudden “stepping down.” Notice the words “fired” or “retiring” are not used in yesterday’s statement. Is this a mutual parting of ways? Is it a polite firing? It’s hard to discern.
• The coaching cycle part of this story is what makes it really unusual. There were quite a few ST coaches on the market that I would think the Packers would have been interested in had they known they’d be in the market for one. That time has passed. Hell, even a few guys on Rich’s staff, not that we’d necessarily be interested in that, also moved on earlier in the offseason. The timing is bizarre.

At the end of the day though, what needed to happen, happened.

Now I’ll grant you this, like a LOT of other Packer fans, I was fully on board with Bisaccia when he was hired in 2022. He was the biggest name on the market, they paid him a boatload of money, many of us thought that bringing him on was the right move to course correct what was an abomination of a unit in 2021.

But it just didn’t work out. The unit was SLIGHTLY better in 2022 than it was in 2021 (there was literally no where to go but up), but it was never consistently good enough. The kicking situation after Mason was a mess, constant penalties on kick returns and punt returns* (and kick coverage and punt coverage), they seemed to have no grasp of the new kickoff rules the last few seasons, it was a debacle. I suppose you can give him credit for developing Keisean Nixon into an All Pro kick returner, but then they never used him in that role last season. Danny Whelan has also been a diamond in the rough, but that’s about it.

So now Matt LaFleur has to hire another ST coach during his head coaching tenure. Fourth times’ a charm?? Hopefully.

*Drink every time we get a flag on special teams was a fun game to play during the Bisaccia Era if you had nowhere to be on Monday.

PS: As unusual as the timing was, as someone who needs to produce sports content every morning for a variety of radio stations, I was OVER THE MOON that we got a big Packer story yesterday. The Olympics have helped, but this is one of the most boring periods on the sports calendar. NBA is still on break, college basketball is still in the regular season, and baseball isn’t even playing Spring Training games yet. #thankyourich