A tumultuous 2025 season for the Green Bay Packers kicking game will mark the last for Rich Bisaccia.
Bisaccia, 65, is stepping down following four seasons as the Green Bay Packers special teams coordinator/assistant head coach, NFL Network Insiders Mike Garafolo and Tom Pelissero reported Tuesday. The team made the news official shortly thereafter.
"After taking some time to reflect over the last few weeks, I have made the decision to step down as the assistant head coach and special teams coordinator of the Green Bay Packers," Bisaccia said in a statement released through the franchise. "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. I am also thankful to the players for their consistent work and relentless effort to improve every single day. I would like to thank everyone in the organization for their dedication and commitment. The people in this building make it a special place to work.
Highly regarded after his time with the Raiders, which included a stint as interim head coach in 2021, Bisaccia arrived in Titletown with ample optimism, but the Packers’ special teams travails soured that.
Among the lowlights this past season, the Packers’ stunning 13-10 loss to the Cleveland Browns in Week 3 came after a go-ahead field goal attempt by Green Bay with 27 seconds left was blocked. The Packers tied the Dallas Cowboys a week later in a game in which they allowed an extra point return.
During the team’s season-ending five-game losing streak, the Packers lost twice to the archrival Chicago Bears with kicking failures looming huge.
In a Week 16 overtime loss to the Bears, Green Bay’s Romeo Doubs botched an onside kick recovery and, three weeks later, the Packers squandered a 21-3 lead in the wild-card game in which kicker Brandon McManus missed an extra point and both of his two field goal attempts.
Green Bay’s 5.6 yards per punt return was the lowest in the NFL, and were ranked 20th in Sports Illustrated’s yearly special teams rankings, with its positives largely due to an excellent season from punter Daniel Whelan, who led the league with 51.7 yards per punt.
Special teams under the Packers has largely struggled since he joined the team ahead of the 2022 campaign. Prior to that, Bisaccia had stays with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chargers, Cowboys and then the Raiders.
With defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley now the Miami Dolphins head coach, Packers head coach Matt LaFleur will have another new coordinator on his staff for 2026, one hoping to shore up a kicking game that’s often been problematic for the club.
“While we are disappointed to lose a person and coach as valuable as Rich, we respect his decision to step down from the Packers,” LaFleur said in the team statement. “Rich was a tremendous resource to me and our entire coaching staff who had a profound impact on our players and our culture throughout the building. We can’t thank him enough for his contributions to our team over the last four years. We wish Rich, his wife, Jeanne, and the rest of their family all the best moving forward.”