The magnitude of the ineptitude is now quantifiable.

The Green Bay Packers ranked dead last in the NFL in Rick Gosselin’s annual special teams rankings for the 2018 season, confirming the enormous failure of Ron Zook’s group during a disastrous campaign of never-ending special teams calamities.

Gosselin’s system has long served as the definitive special teams ranking in the NFL. It takes into account a host of wide-ranging factors that cover every aspect of playing special teams at the professional level.

The Packers, under Zook, ranked 32nd out of 32 teams in 2018. And it wasn’t particularly close.

Green Bay’s special teams had the most giveaways (five) and allowed the most points (12) in the NFL. They also ranked in the bottom five of several categories, including penalties, kickoff return coverage, opponent’s average field position and punts inside the 20-yard line.

Only five kickoffs were returned for touchdowns in 2018. The Packers allowed one of them.

The Packers couldn’t avoid penalties or game-changing mistakes on special teams. Veteran kicker Mason Crosby missed several important kicks, rookie punter JK Scott faded fast, Ty Montgomery and Tramon Williams both had back-breaking turnovers as returners and several teams converted fourth downs with fake punts or field goals.

The season ended with Lions kicker Matt Prater throwing a touchdown pass on a fake field goal in the season finale.

Not surprisingly, new coach Matt LaFleur immediately fired Zook when he was hired earlier this month. The first-year head coach still searching for a replacement.

Darren Rizzi, who interviewed with LaFleur for the job last week, led the Miami Dolphins to a fourth-place finish in Gosselin’s rankings. It doesn’t appear, however, that the Packers will be making the hire, a potentially huge swing and miss for a team that desperately needs a drastic improvement on special teams.

LaFleur has also interviewed Jaguars assistant Mike Mallory, who helped Jacksonville to an eighth-place finish in the rankings.

In 2017, Zook and the Packers managed to finish 16th in Gosselin’s rankings, a substantial improvement over their 29th place finish in 2016. The Packers previously finished last in the rankings in 2014, which prompted the change from Shawn Slocum to Zook, then an assistant.

Overall, the Packers have finished 29th or worse in the rankings three times in the last five years, with two last-place finishes.

It’s well past time for the franchise to hire a competent individual to end the embarrassment.

Here are the Packers’ year-by-year rankings since 2012:

2018: 32nd

2017: 16th

2016: 29th

2015: 17th

2014: 32nd

2013: 20th

2012: 12th