{"id":289570,"date":"2025-11-17T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289570\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:19:09","slug":"blue-bombers-sign-gm-walters-head-coach-oshea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289570\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers sign GM Walters, head coach O&#8217;Shea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WINNIPEG \u2014 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers made it official Monday, announcing three-year contracts for GM Kyle Walters and head coach Mike O\u2019Shea after saying Friday the pair would be back in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 2026 season will be O\u2019Shea\u2019s 12th at the helm in Winnipeg, and he already stands as the winningest head coach in franchise history with a 117-77 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Walters was named the 17th GM in franchise history on Nov. 26, 2013, and has worked with O\u2019Shea since hiring him as head coach a week later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 2026 season will be his 16th year with the organization, having previously served as an assistant coach and as assistant general manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Walters and O\u2019Shea have led the Bombers to nine consecutive double-digit win seasons and five straight Grey Cup appearances from 2019-2024. They won titles in 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Winnipeg finished 10-8 this season and fell to the Montreal Alouettes in the East Division semifinal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 17, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers made it official Monday, announcing three-year contracts for GM Kyle Walters and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-289570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289570","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=289570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}