Bisaccia To Wear Two Hats

Pewter Report is reporting today that Special Teams Coordinator Rich Bisaccia, whose name sounds like a slang term for an overprivileged heiress, is going to pull double duty as the running backs coach as well.

I am not among the leagues of Bisaccia haters because I think special teams has improved greatly over the last couple years. Special teams coaching makes its mark in coverage where assignments need to be followed. The Bucs have been excellent in that area. I don't necessarily blame him for the poor returns and I think he's a good coach. But why stretch him this thin? There will almost certainly be a couple new running backs in 2008. Why have a coach getting used to a new position at a time of such transition?

It's always puzzled me how assistant coaches can glide in and out of positions and still maintain a level of credibility. Is coaching such a generalized profession that anyone with any knowledge can coach any position? How can someone be a secondary coach one year and a defensive line coach the next? That's weird to me. It seems like the assistant coaching positions should be so specialized that someone needs to be an expert in them. And if that's not the case, why employ so many assistant coaches? And if there's not that much to know, why spend so many hours coaching?

Yeah, sometimes I get inquisitive like that. It's not all bikini models, people.