{"id":290970,"date":"2025-11-18T12:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/290970\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:24:20","slug":"winnipeg-blue-bombers-sign-head-coach-mike-oshea-gm-kyle-walters-to-three-year-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/290970\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers sign head coach Mike O\u2019Shea, GM Kyle Walters to three-year extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have signed head coach Mike O\u2019Shea and general manager Kyle Walters to three-year extensions that will run through the 2028 CFL season, the team announced on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">O\u2019Shea, 55, has been at the helm of the team since he was hired in December 2013. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Walters was named the 17th GM of the franchise in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Bombers finished this season 10-8 and fell to the Alouettes in the Eastern Semi-Final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">O\u2019Shea moved to seventh all-time in CFL history for coaching wins this season, surpassing Bob O\u2019Billovich (107) and Dave Ritchie (108).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Over 11 seasons with the club, O\u2019Shea has compiled a 117-77 record and two Grey Cup championships in 2019 and 2021. He is a two-time recipient of the Annis Stukus Trophy as the CFL\u2019s top coach (2021 and 2022).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Walters will enter his 12th season as GM and 16th with the organization. He previously served as assistant coach and assistant general manager. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Blue Bombers have reached the playoffs in nine consecutive seasons and lost three straight Grey Cups from 2022-24. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have signed head coach Mike O\u2019Shea and general manager Kyle Walters to three-year extensions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,82,75056],"class_list":{"0":"post-290970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-canadian-football-league","12":"tag-canadianfootballleague","13":"tag-cfl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-winnipeg-blue-bombers-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-110380"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290970","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=290970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}