Rich Bisaccia has stepped down as Green Bay Packers special teams coordinator and assistant head coach, the team announced Tuesday night.

“After taking some time to reflect over the last few weeks, I have made the decision to step down,” Bisaccia said in a statement released by the team. “I am incredibly grateful to Matt LaFleur, Brian Gutekunst, Ed Policy and Mark Murphy for their unwavering trust and support throughout my time in Green Bay. I am also thankful to the players for their consistent work and relentless effort to improve every single day. I would like to thank everyone in the organization for their dedication and commitment. The people in this building make it a special place to work.

“I want to also thank our fans and the people throughout the Green Bay community for their passion and love for this team. Coaching for the Green Bay Packers was truly an honor, and I will always be grateful for my time here. I look forward to whatever is next for me and my family, and I wish nothing but the best for everyone in the organization.”

Bisaccia, who had been an NFL special teams coordinator since 2002, just finished his fourth season with the Packers. According to TruMedia, the Packers ranked 30th in expected points added on special teams during that span.

However, Gutekunst, the general manager, strongly backed Bisaccia several weeks ago when asked about the organization potentially needing to emphasize special teams more from a personnel standpoint.

“When I was working for (the late former Packers GM) Ted (Thompson) … we were never really going to have a player that was strictly a special teams guy,” Gutekunst said. “He had to play a position and have a major kind of role or developmental role as a position player on offense or defense. I think when Rich got here … there’s a lot of discussions, and we certainly have added a lot of those kind of guys that are just more special teams-oriented players. And we improved. We’ve gotten a lot better. So I have a lot of faith in Rich and what we’re doing there.

“What Rich brings to our culture, this football team, it’s really — he’s a very impactful coach around here,” Gutekunst added. “Certainly, I thought we’ve been better on (special) teams the last few years than we’ve been in a long time. Our cover units have been better. We’ve got one of the best punters in the National Football League, got an excellent snapper. Brandon (McManus) was excellent last year. This year, again, he worked through some things injury-wise and then had a bad playoff game. That was kind of how that ended. No, I’ve got a lot of faith in Rich and his staff, what they do around here, not only the X’s and O’s, what they bring to the field, but what they bring to this place culturally is really important.”

Longtime Bisaccia assistant Byron Storer recently took the Cleveland Browns special teams coordinator job. The Packers will now have their fourth different special teams coordinator entering head coach LaFleur’s eighth season with the team.

“While we are disappointed to lose a person and coach as valuable as Rich, we respect his decision to step down from the Packers,” LaFleur said in a statement. “Rich was a tremendous resource to me and our entire coaching staff who had a profound impact on our players and our culture throughout the building. We can’t thank him enough for his contributions to our team over the last four years. We wish Rich, his wife, Jeanne, and the rest of their family all the best moving forward.”