Coach

The former associate head coach and special teams coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with a Super Bowl title on his resume, Bisaccia begins his first season as the new special teams coach for the Chargers.

Bisaccia joined the Buccaneers in 2002 for his first NFL job and remained through 2010. In his first season, the Bucs won Super Bowl XXXVII. In his last, the Buccaneers were among the NFL’s best, ranking eighth in kickoff return average, while allowing the seventh-fewest yards per punt return and eighth-fewest per kickoff return.

In total during his nine seasons, the Buccaneers’ owned the NFL’s fourth-best kickoff return average while allowing the league’s sixth-lowest to their opponents. Bisaccia saw hisspecial teamers earn three Pro Bowl selections, 13 NFC Player of the Week awards and four NFC Player of the Month awards. And his charges scored four touchdowns on kickoff returns, four on punt returns, they blocked 10 field goals, five
punts and three PATs.

Bisaccia’s finest season in Tampa Bay may have been 2009, when the Buccaneers led the NFL with six blocked kicks. They also led the NFL in kickoff return average while ranking fourth in punt return average and second in opponent kickoff return average.

A former defensive back at Yankton College in South Dakota, the native of Yonkers, New York began his coaching career at Wayne State College in Nebraska in 1983. He worked as an assistant coach at Wayne State, South Carolina, Clemson and Ole Miss before landing with the Buccaneers in 2002.

Bisaccia and wife, Jeanne, have three daughters, Michele, Elizabeth and Madeline, and a son, Richie.