GREEN BAY — One of the quirky things about the inherently abrupt endings NFL teams must endure — out of 14 playoff teams, only the Super Bowl champions get to go out with a victory — is that in most cases, teams’ coordinators don’t speak to reporters again until the following offseason.

That was the case at Lambeau Field on Monday, when Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur’s three top lieutenants — special-teams coordinator/assistant head coach Rich Bisaccia, defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley and offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich — took questions from the media four months to the day since they last spoke publicly, leading up to the Packers’ season-ending 22-10 loss to the eventual Super Bowl LIX-champion Philadelphia Eagles on Jan. 12.

“It’s a new year. We never get to talk after (playoff losses),” Bisaccia observed. “We didn’t get to talk after the (NFC divisional playoff loss to) San Francisco (to end the 2023 season). We didn’t get to talk after the Philly game. And so here we are going into the next year.”

With the 2025 season in mind, all three men took a host of questions Monday, on a myriad of topics. Here are the three most interesting things they said:

• Set to turn 65 next month, Bisaccia was asked whether he considered retirement and what brought him back. He said part of his motivation was that he believed he has “failed” LaFleur at times over the past three seasons. He was then asked how he felt he’d failed LaFleur.

“I just think we’ve given up four big plays in three years, and I think each one of those plays … to my thoughts, it kind of cost us the game,” Bisaccia replied in part.

The plays Bisaccia pointed to: Rookie kicker Anders Carlson’s critical 41-yard miss in the loss to the 49ers and Keisean Nixon fumbling at the end of a long kickoff return (although Eric Wilson recovered the ball for the Packers); Nixon losing a fumble on the opening kickoff in the loss to the Eagles, plus kicker Brandon McManus missing a chip-shot field-goal attempt; and the Chicago Bears’ misdirection punt return for a 94-yard touchdown in the Packers’ loss to their NFC North rivals in the regular-season finale last year.

“I just have a high standard for what we’re trying to do and the way in which we’re trying to do it,” Bisaccia said. “Every game we have a one-play mentality in the kicking game. We don’t get three downs to make it right like on offensive or defense. You get one shot to punt that ball. You get one shot to kick it off, return it and so on. And so I think in that manner, or that sense or that standard, that’s kind of where I feel like we’ve failed them at times.”

• Despite his defense finishing the season ranked sixth in scoring defense (19.9 points per game) and fifth in total defense (314.5 yards per game) in his first year in charge, Hafley made it clear he has no intention of running it back with the same stuff he ran in 2024.

“I’m proud of the way the guys played in Year 1. The thing that I’m most proud of, I do believe we got better, and I think we played our best football late in the season, and that was the most important thing to me,” Hafley said. “((in) Year 1, you’re figuring out the system, you’re figuring out the players and (asked), ‘Can we get better each week?’

“Expectations? In a perfect world, you want to get back to where you left off as fast as possible and build from there. So, how fast can we do that? We have guys who have played in the system, we have some new pieces we need to add.

“(But) we need to evolve. We can’t just do the same thing and say, ‘Here’s the playbook, and this is what we’re running.’ No. We’re a different team. It’s a different year. Offenses are going to have evolved, we have to evolve. I would say I would like us to be more consistent, OK? There’s a lot of things we did do well, but I think the consistency needs to improve. Certainly, I need to improve.”

• The Packers already made it clear earlier in the offseason that the starting left tackle job is up for grabs between incumbent starter Rasheed Walker and 2024 first-round pick Jordan Morgan. But to hear Stenavich tell it, there’ll be competition across the line — including for Zach Tom at right tackle.

Having selected North Carolina State tackle Anthony Belton in the second round and Cincinnati tackle John Williams in the seventh, the Packers have now picked five linemen over the past two drafts after taking Morgan, fifth-round pick Jacob Monk and sixth-round pick Travis Glover last year.

Add in the pricey free-agent signing of left guard Aaron Banks and former Pro Bowler Elgton Jenkins’ shift to center, and there are a lot of moving parts up front.

That apparently includes the possibility that Tom, who battled through a challenging year after tearing a pectoral muscle in his chest during the offseason, will also face genuine competition for his starting spot.

“We’re going to have a lot of competition at both tackle positions with trying to find who our best five guys are,” said Stenavich, a former offensive line coach. “However it shakes out — left tackle, right tackle, obviously right guard — there’s a lot of good competition.

“(With) the guys we’ve added plus the guys getting older and getting more experience, it’s going to be really interesting to see how this all shakes out.”

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