{"id":283775,"date":"2025-11-15T02:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283775\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T02:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:11:13","slug":"mike-oshea-kyle-walters-back-with-bombers-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283775\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike O&#8217;Shea, Kyle Walters back with Bombers in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2014 Mike O\u2019Shea will be back as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach in 2026, the team announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bombers <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Wpg_BlueBombers\/status\/1989458747274506520?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posted on their <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Wpg_BlueBombers\/status\/1989458747274506520?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X account that O\u2019Shea<\/a> will be behind the bench next season in Winnipeg and that more details will be coming.<\/p>\n<p>The Bombers <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Wpg_BlueBombers\/status\/1989470744389050562?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">have also announced on X<\/a> that general manager Kyle Walters will return in 2026 and that more details will follow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2780408 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762780508_415_112th-Grey-Cup-Logo-EN.png\" alt=\"112th GREY CUP\" width=\"185\" height=\"145\" data-uw-rm-alt-original=\"\" data-uw-rm-alt=\"CT\"\/>112th GREY CUP<br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/11\/11\/3-storylines-that-could-define-the-112th-grey-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/11\/11\/3-storylines-that-could-define-the-112th-grey-cup\/\" aria-label=\"3 storylines that could define the 112th Grey Cup - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->3 storylines that could define the 112th Grey Cup<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/11\/13\/landrys-3-takeaways-from-riders-thursday-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/11\/13\/landrys-3-takeaways-from-riders-thursday-practice\/\" aria-label=\"Landry\u2019s 6 takeaways from Riders\u2019, Als\u2019 Thursday practices - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->Landry\u2019s 6 takeaways from Riders\u2019, Als\u2019 Thursday practices<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/everything-you-need-to-know-ahead-of-the-112th-grey-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/everything-you-need-to-know-ahead-of-the-112th-grey-cup\/\" aria-label=\"Everything you need to know ahead of the 112th Grey Cup - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->Everything you need to know ahead of the 112th Grey Cup<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/11\/12\/riders-als-manifested-112th-grey-cup-appearance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/11\/12\/riders-als-manifested-112th-grey-cup-appearance\/\" aria-label=\"Riders, Als manifested 112th Grey Cup appearance - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->Riders, Als manifested 112th Grey Cup appearance<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/11\/11\/kpmg-playoff-probability-who-will-win-the-112th-grey-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2025\/11\/11\/kpmg-playoff-probability-who-will-win-the-112th-grey-cup\/\" aria-label=\"KPMG Playoff Probability: Who will win the 112th Grey Cup? - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->KPMG Playoff Probability: Who will win the 112th Grey Cup?<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mike O\u2019Shea will return as head coach in 2026. More details to follow. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForTheW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ForTheW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uN36mjauec\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/uN36mjauec<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Winnipeg Blue Bombers (@Wpg_BlueBombers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wpg_BlueBombers\/status\/1989458747274506520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Shea has been the head coach of the Bombers since 2014. Prior to joining Winnipeg, O\u2019Shea was the special teams coordinator for the Toronto Argonauts (2010-2013).<\/p>\n<p>The head coach led Winnipeg to five-straight Grey Cups (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), winning back-to-back in 2019 and 2021. The Bombers were this year\u2019s crossover team and lost to the Montreal Alouettes in the Eastern Semi-Final.<\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 Mike O\u2019Shea will be back as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach in 2026, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-283775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}