Green Bay, Wisconsin – January 12, 2026
The Green Bay Packers entered the offseason expecting tough decisions, but few anticipated how quickly the reckoning would arrive. Just days after a crushing Wild Card loss to the Chicago Bears, special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia has stepped down, sources confirmed, amid overwhelming pressure following the missed kicks that defined the team’s abrupt playoff exit.
The breaking point came in the 31–27 defeat at Soldier Field, where the Packers squandered a 21–3 halftime lead. Rookie quarterback Caleb Williams led Chicago’s late surge, but it was Green Bay’s unraveling on special teams that shifted the narrative from missed opportunity to organizational failure.
At the center of that collapse was kicker Brandon McManus, whose missed field goals from 55 and 44 yards, along with a failed extra point, left seven points on the field. In a game decided by four, those misses became impossible to ignore, both inside the locker room and across the fan base.
McManus was released within hours of the loss, but the fallout did not stop there. As the coach responsible for the unit, Bisaccia found himself carrying the weight of a season-long problem that once again surfaced at the worst possible moment. By Monday, the pressure had grown too heavy to withstand.
Bisaccia joined the Packers in 2022 with a reputation as a stabilizer, tasked with fixing a long-standing weakness under head coach Matt LaFleur. While there were incremental improvements, special teams remained near the bottom of league rankings, plagued by missed kicks, coverage breakdowns, and costly errors in critical games.
According to sources close to the situation, Bisaccia chose to resign rather than prolong the distraction. The decision was framed internally as an acknowledgment that trust had eroded. For a veteran coach with decades of experience, the moment marked a quiet but painful end to his tenure in Green Bay.
For the Packers, Bisaccia’s departure signals more than a coaching change. It reflects an organization confronting its most persistent flaw with urgency. After another season ended by special teams failures, Green Bay is sending a clear message: the margin for error is gone, and accountability now begins where the collapse did.
