We're only day 2 of the HORSE year, and, as promised last October, RAT year born Rich Bisaccia pays the piper: "bye-bye Rich"
HORSE 🐎 & RAT🐀 = enemy signs

<<October 06, 2025 at 10:01 am

"MEN DON'T FOLLOW TITLES, THEY FOLLOW COURAGE."

MLF is a 4 life path--fantastic work ethic. He also has 3 energy being born on the 3rd emphasizing communication. What he lacks is leadership, most often associated with 1 energy.

Stubbornly sticking with failing coordinators in repeated fashion, that he hired, in a results-based environment is nothing short of insanity. Leadership is making hard decisions in the face of adversity; every inch he continues to give to failing coordinators is a mile less on his head coaching career.

He appears a classic victim of analysis paralysis...too often overthinking play calling or clock management; as fans, do we not see it on a weekly basis? Clearly there is a deficit in real-time executive functioning to see the forest through the trees.

Our QB, also a 4 life is on a similar track. Hard worker, not a leader. The one thing Jordan does have going for him is he's born on the 2nd. 2 energy is associated with diplomacy--bringing people together. That's the bone I can throw, where, hopefully the team rallies around him. The only way that happens is if he performs with consistency.

Elgton Jenkins and Adam Stenavich are the two 🐷year born peeps on this team, currently in their enemy year of the 🐍, who are likely to continue to struggle through mid-Feb. In February, Bisaccia's enemy year will hit--what's the most likely outcome? Bye-bye Rich. Book it.>>

Two points:

Like I said elsewhere, if MLF doesn't assign more of a priority to special teams and change his approach, it really doesn't matter who the replacement is--it might as well be a department store mannequin. This unit has been nothing but a disappointment for over a decade and a half, so all we can hope for is that a miracle occurs and they start to be taken seriously. How about finding a competent KR (instead of all the stupid shuffling!) and gunner first?

"Perhaps that was a testimony to how they valued Bisaccia's experience and presence with the team." Or maybe how Gute and MLF didn't want to admit a mistake and how they are adverse to making a change is more like it. Anyway, goodbye Rich, and good luck MLF with the slim pickings that are left in the ST coach department. LOL, maybe he can pry Drayton loose from The Citadel!

Happy to finally hear this news. It would have been better had he resigned sooner, like 2-3 seasons ago, or at least in January when better ST coaches were still available, but at least now the Packers have a chance to get it right with their STs. Maybe??? Thanks, Since '61

Saw the headline so had to come back and comment.
At least it is done now. And we will have someone whose focus and accountability is ST. Of course, accountability is a forbidden word in GB nowadays.

OTOH - What will MLF do without an assistant head coach? That's a scary thought too. We have no idea.

Not that any coaches comments really mean anything anymore but from his statement:
"I am incredibly grateful to Matt LaFleur, Brian Gutekunst, Ed Policy and Mark Murphy for their unwavering trust and support throughout my time in Green Bay.” Did he just call all of those guys dumb? How could any management have unwavering trust when the poor results are evident to all? LOL!

S.O.L.I.D.
(Spirit Of Lombardi Is Dead)

I think it's time we have to accept. It's not about the ST coordinator. The failure of these teams clearly has more to do with the GM and perhaps MLF deciding who will be on the third phase..

It's not like all these highly regarded coaches suddenly forget how to coach when they get to Green Bay

But who was our PR this year? Who is our KR this year?
What happened with our gunners?

Yes, a top St coach may be more innovative
But I think we'd settle for middle of the road adequacy at this point ... And that probably is not the coaching.

I am happy that Rich resigned on his own. Shows integrity. Now we'll see if the ST coordinator was the problem or GB management? Was it the HC? Was it the GM? Both? We have eliminated one variable from the problem from many possible variables.

My big issue is that there are systemic issues that hamstring what the ST coach can actually do to make things better (in all phases - they were objectively good in the areas where leadership cared about being good). Those issues are not going away simply by changing coaches. Even though the Packers fan base vehemently disagrees, Bisaccia was and is widely respected for being an excellent ST coach. He wasn't the highest paid ST coach in the league by accident. Every media outlet didn't consider it a major coup when the Packers landed him for no reason.

Point being, the next coach is going to have to deal with the same systemic issues that made it impossible to field a top-tier ST unit. That coach may very well not have the coaching ability to compensate for being handcuffed while trying to do his job. I'm definitely worried that things are going to get a lot worse.

So how does anyone expect an average team to have an above average special teams. Yes I will admit that there were some mistakes on STs but I believe there were also mistakes on O and D. Maybe we just have an average team.

One way another, it probably needed to happen. At least he made the decision. So now that he's no longer the STC, I honestly don't know that I feel like they improved, or not. Addition by subtraction? Won't know until next season. Or for the sake of "continuity" will they just keep it the same and put some other poor sap in a no win situation?

Unless they left it out, I noticed he didn't thank the fans.

I've said it before I'll say it again Gute & the flower could F**k up a county fair.It was extremely obvious a change was necessary on special teams, the Rams fired their SP coach the day after their season ended but hey GB no hurry it's not like the hiring cycle matters

I have already read some articles talking about the cupboard already being picked over with regards to special teams coordinators. We see all the time where position A coach moves over to coach position B. Does anyone know if you can take any position coach and make them a special teams coach. Not like there should be a lot of technique coaching involved. We shouldn't be limited to STCs who have already struggled. Next great STC is probably currently a position coach. Just saying.

I don’t think special teams is the reason this team constantly folds when they get punched in the mouth by physical teams.
RB didn’t make Romeo Doubs flinch on a routine onside kick recovery attempt. Rich B didn’t make them get delay of game penalty after a time out. Rich B didn’t cause the sketchy offensive line play that couldn’t support a running game.
And let’s not forget, even against teams like the Browns, the Packers didn’t have the ability to play well enough to win comfortably ( or at all ) turning them into last play of the game adventures.
Keeping MLF after the 2024 season was the mistake. It was just compounded in 2025.

I saw some talk show yesterday where Adam Scheffter suggested that Bisaccia's resignation may have been due to the new Defensive coaching staff, and the possibility of changing to a 3 - 4 defense.
His explanation was that with the new staff basically assembled and the combine approaching, positions of interest for who to scout, and where they were to concentrate their 'needs', Bisaccia saw that he'd again be 'shorted' on ST players by losing more 53 man roster spots to the change-over, and therefore resigned seeing a No-Win situation. It makes sense!
I have no idea if any of that played a part, but it may explain the late resignation and timing of it.
Like Parcells once said, "If you want me to cook the dinner, you've got to let me buy some of the groceries"!