{"id":290826,"date":"2025-11-18T10:44:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/290826\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:44:25","slug":"blue-bombers-sign-gm-walters-head-coach-oshea-to-three-year-contracts-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/290826\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers sign GM Walters, head coach O\u2019Shea to three-year contracts \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 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>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>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>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b318dec97194d80a89c449aae75afb557035ab30badf755e9e682e87a9d0c1de.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"1024\" data-pswp-height=\"648\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b318dec97194d80a89c449aae75afb557035ab30badf755e9e682e87a9d0c1de.jpg\" alt=\"Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach Mike O'Shea looks on during the first half of CFL football action in Regina, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Heywood Yu\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWinnipeg Blue Bombers head coach Mike O&#8217;Shea looks on during the first half of CFL football action in Regina, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Heywood Yu<\/p>\n<p>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>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>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThe Warm-Up<\/p>\n<p class=\"frequency\">Winnipeg Jets Game Days<\/p>\n<p>On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"email-subscribe-link button the-warmup inline-block-logged-in\">Sign up for The Warm-Up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/theWarm-up-tile.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for The Warm-Up\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg finished 10-8 this season and fell to the Montreal Alouettes in the East Division semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 17, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 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":290827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-290826","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\/290826","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=290826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}