Green Bay Packers Special Teams Rankings (2020–2025)

Poor special teams is a trademark of a MLF coached team. Can Achord change that? We shall see.

The question is this a sign of poor schemes, poor coaching or poor talent?

One way or another they need to stop making mistakes every time they’re on the field.

To be fair, Mason Crosby wasn't the problem with special teams in most years. In spite of a few bad years, he was a pretty reliable kicker. Coverage units were not good! The Packers are probably the only team in NFL history that ever gave up a special teams touchdown to an offensive tackle (ugh). Until MLF puts some emphasis on making special teams a weapon, we're going to be looking at the same old gaffs and blunders.

Even before MLF special teams were ranked very low with the exemption of 2015 ranked 14th.

We won't know until the regular season begins. I recommend that the Packers hire Mason Crosby as a consultant to work with the rookie kicker through first season. As for the coverage and return teams best of luck to Achord.
Thanks, Since '61

When an organization tells you it does not care about Special Teams, believe them.

Shawn Slocum, Ron Zook, Sean Mennega, Mo Drayton, and Rich Bisaccia have all failed and failed spectacularly as STs Coordinators.

Here’s hoping a guy nobody else saw as Coordinator material late in the hiring process turns the Pack’s woeful STs unit around, but nobody outside of Ed Policy and Achord’s loving mother have much faith in that happening in 2026.

Think what you will of Bissacia, but I remember LaFleur admitting that Bissacia had convinced him to allow ST units at least some practice time in padded/contact practices once a week. Before that it had essentially been walkthrough only. That was a staggering admission for me and a powerful window into to the institutional lack of consideration of STs and reasons for results on field.

This is a ridiculous situation. The head coach needs to go out of the way to fix the problem--that means placing emphasis on getting the unit fixed by devoting the right amount of practice time to it (that goes for the new kicker as well). And putting the right personnel out there as far as returning kicks and insisting they make the right decsions. We have more potential talent on special teams than in years past, so maybe a miracle will occur and we can finally be proud of them.

You cannot fix this. It's the nature of the beast. You're always going to be dealing with the bottom of your roster, 22 year olds overamped on testosterone and adrenaline. Stuff is always going to go wrong. And if, by some miracle, you get a special teams coach who can get everything to line up, then he'll be gone after the season to take a better job. You cannot fix this, just like you can't prevent car crashes.

But you can mitigate the damage, and you'd look for opportunities to reduce the number of crashes. Same goes with these return units. Catch the ball and give it to your $50M QB. Punt the ball out of bounds so there'll never be a return. Don't attempt long FGs unless it's the end of the half.

IMO, if you can go through the season without turning it over, or missing a FG from 40 or under, or giving up a long return, then you've done pretty well on special teams.