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Rich Bisaccia’s recipe for fixing Packers’ special teams: ‘It’s tough love at first, but it’s true love’

GREEN BAY — The Green Bay Packers’ rookie class most definitely did not get the full Rich Bisaccia Experience during the team’s post-draft, welcome-to-the-NFL minicamp earlier this month.

Oh, the Packers' fiery new special teams coordinator, doing his first on-field coaching since coach Matt LaFleur tasked him during the offseason with fixing the team’s downtrodden units, showed little glimpses of what LaFleur likes to call Bisaccia’s “love 'em tough” coaching style.

But other than a tennis ball drill that hadn’t been seen before in these parts, and the occasional stern admonishment to a youngster making a repeat mistake, Bisaccia wasn’t noticeably different with any of his new rookies than previous coordinators had been with theirs.