The Rich Bisaccia saga has been one of the more bizarre events of the 2026 NFL offseason, and it was certainly the weirdest thing to happen around the Green Bay Packers so far this year. The team’s former special teams coordinator abruptly resigned from his post in late January, well after most of the coaching changes (and hires) had taken place around the league, taking the same job at Clemson University. That decision left the Packers and head coach Matt LaFleur scrambling to find a replacement
from a pool of candidates that had significantly dried up by that time.
At the NFL Annual Meeting on Monday, LaFleur spoke to the media for the first time since shortly after the Packers’ 2025 season came to an end, and for the first time since the team’s coaching changes were processed, but he had little clarity to provide on why Bisaccia left. LaFleur told reporters that he has not spoken directly to Bisaccia about his reasons for resigning:
It is rather surprising that the two men have not spoken directly about the reasons for Bisaccia’s departure and that LaFleur can only speculate about them. In fact, this response only further muddles the circumstances of his resignation and raises the question of why the two men have not discussed it. Is there some significant rift that opened up between the two of them? Has either one tried to reach out to the other, only to be sent to voice mail? Are both men simply refusing to pick up the phone and reach out to the other to clear the air?
Then there’s the topic of this list of potential successors that Bisaccia provided to LaFleur. How was that list communicated? Did he send it over text or email? Was it delivered by carrier pigeon? Did Bisaccia leave a handwritten note on his desk so a staffer who was assigned to clean out his old desk would find and give it to LaFleur? And who else was on that list besides Achord, whom LaFleur eventually hired as the new special teams coordinator?
By answering questions about Bisaccia in this manner, LaFleur did not clarify the situation at all. In fact, he only raised further questions about the bizarre nature of Bisaccia’s departure and further bolstered the idea that something went amiss between the former Packers assistant and the team.
While the overall explanations for Bisaccia leaving make sense — he had a lengthy history coaching in South Carolina in the past, including at Clemson — but there are still no good answers as to why he made his decision so late. At this point, those answers may never come.
