IIRC, Bisaccia is one of the highest paid ST coordinators in the league.

Proof of George Young's claim that no one plays (or coaches) better because they're getting paid more.

NFL is supposed to results-based. Bisaccia is being given a pass--Carlson, Narveson, Nixon are his responsibilty and have cost the
team numerous lost points in pivotal situations.

The Good: Thanks to Nixon, the Packers have been top 10 in kickoff returns during the last three seasons. Bisaccia has also apparently done a good job in developing Whelan. Opponent's average punt returns have ranked 9th in least yards allowed this season after being dead last in the 2020 and 2021 seasons.

The Bad: His insight into drafting kickers could not be trusted...Under Mennenga, the Packers ranked 4th and 8th in ST penalties for his two years; under Bisaccia, they have reverted to 30th, 31st, and 26th. Punt return average has slipped to 29th and 25th the past two seasons.

The Inexplicable: It's hard to believe the kick returners are so dense that they don't know or don't understand why they shouldn't field the ball in certain areas. At any rate, these unwritten rules should be communicated to the players, and that falls on the coordinator. There still seems to be a bit of a laissez-faire hangover associated with the special teams unit, and you figured Bisaccia would be the one to exorcise it--but it hasn't completely happened yet.

I'd fire him immediately. He is living off the "oh he's such a nice guy thing and that dont count it for me".

"Of course, while the Packers did kick the winning field goal against Houston, that was only possible because of the excellent job punter Daniel Whelan did as the holder. "

Not entirely true, the new FG specialist nailed it just after he nailed the first one where the timeout occurred.

Secondly, our punter Whelan has done an outstanding job punting the ball. He is part of special teams.

I believe we now have a good FG kicker.

Yes the punt returns have not been great this year. I believe Nixon lost the ball in the sun, at just the wrong time, and did not have time to call everyone off. A bit of bad luck I presume. I really think moving forward that our special teams will be more than adequate.

How much of that 29th ranking was due to the bad kicker? I'm guessing most of it. That's on Bisacchia because I'm sure he had something to do with bringing Anders Carlson in and pretty much handing him the kicking job based on potential rather than performance. If the new kicker is good, special teams could look a lot better. I don't recall a lot of problems with Reed and Nixon as punt returners before the Texans game. Let's hope those bad decisions by them were a blip on the radar.

Time for Gil to come here and coach those guys. He seems to know what is wrong and should be corrected.

I keep telling you, it's the nature of the beast. If you had a great special teams coach, he'd be offered a better job/title and he'd be gone after a year.

It's not the coaches, or the players. It's what they do. Returning punts is a losing proposal. Returning kickoffs, too. Giving your opponent an opportunity to break a long run is kind of stupid when it's so easily prevented.

But no, let's keep hoping for a great special teams coach and a bunch of special teams demons....who can also play well enough to start if there's an injury.

Fair catch whenever possible. Punt it towards the sideline. Kick it out of the endzone.

Giving thanks to Nixon for the kick returns is a bit of a misleading stat. There have been just so very few returners who actually return a ball on a kickoff that he's going to show up near the top of that list. Certainly that was the case before the new kick off rules. Now if more kickers perfect their talents and put the ball in the zone where it forces a return then yeah, he's pretty good at it.

Playing the odds and the percentages you take the touchbacks. You start at the 30 and nobody gets a stupid block in the back penalty to negate yards on a return and start you deep. Because those penalties are often more routine than a great return.

Coaches aside, last time the ST unit seemed to have a really good year was when Janis was the gunner. Routinely he was down that field and in the face of the returner asking, "You gonna fair catch that?" Janis couldn't do much but he was really good in that role.

Do we have to dust off the Naked Pictures Theory to explain Matt Orzech’s continued employment as an NFL long snapper ? What’s up with that? How is Bisaccia addressing his wildness? Not sure that leaving it to Whelan to make miracles with lousy snaps is much of a plan.

The deal we made with satan was good QB play for crap special teams.

Jordan Love is good, therefore special teams will remain not good. C'est la vie

If you noticed Bisaccia is very defensive if any criticism is offered to him from the media, Therefore he doesn't get criticized much anymore. He stinks.

I don’t think missed field goals or Whelan’s excellence falls under Bisaccia’s coaching. Maybe I’m full of crap.
I tend to think more in terms of kick and punt coverage and preventing blocked kicks more along the lines of what a special teams coach can do. Even returning kicks and punts (other than the fundamental “Peter” call) seems to be more attributable to having a gifted returner (like Nixon.)

Well I’m not going to call our returners dense but I do believe in a football IQ. If there’s the need for a heady decision to be made on the fly, neither of our returners got the it gene. So I don’t know where that leaves them? Don’t you think it’s ST 101 to explain to returners (and has been) this when you return it out of the end zone (never) and this is why you fair catch a punt and don’t let it land…and our returners don’t. These are grown ass men not children learning the game. So now what?

I'm not worried about the coaching or the players.
It's all about confidence.
They got this!