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The had the worst special teams unit in the during the 2021 season. That unit also failed the Packers at the worst po sible time, with contributing in a major way to the team's Jay Buhner Jersey divisional round lo s to the .So, it made sense when earlier this week, the team with former special teams coach Maurice Drayton. Now, it appears they may have their eye on Drayton's replacement. According Dan Vogelbach Jersey to a report from Tom Silverstein of the , the Packers have former interim coach Rich Bisaccia about the role.Bisaccia is a longtime special teams coach who stepped in as interim coach following the resignation of former Raiders coach Jon Gruden. He had spent the previous three-plus seasons working under Gruden with the Raiders, and before that had spent Dan Altavilla Jersey five years with the , two with the then-San Diego , and nine with the . He also spent 13 years coaching special teams (along with running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, and defensive ends at different times) at the college level.The Raiders ranked, on average, 20th Ben Gamel Jersey in Football Outsiders' special teams DVOA in four years under Bisaccia, with three bottom-third finishes. That's not great, but it's a marked improvement over the Packers' 32nd-ranked unit in 2021. In the previous two seasons under Daniel Vogelbach Jersey head coach Matt LaFleur and former special teams coordinator Shawn Mennenga, the Packers had finished 18th and 25th in the same metric. So, this has been a long-running i sue for them, and Bisaccia may end up beingthe one to fix it.