{"id":365047,"date":"2025-12-24T02:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365047\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T02:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:42:12","slug":"blue-bombers-bring-in-new-offensive-co-ordinator-after-down-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365047\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers bring in new offensive co-ordinator after down year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are making adjustments to their coaching staff ahead of the 2026 CFL season.<\/p>\n

The Bombers announced Monday that Tommy Condell has been named offensive co-ordinator, Jake Thomas is the new defensive line coach and Jason Hogan is reprising his role as running backs coach.<\/p>\n

The moves come after the team finished the 2025 campaign fourth in the West with a 10-8 record to clinch a crossover playoff spot, before falling 42-33 to the Montreal Alouettes in the East Division semifinal<\/a>. It was the first time in five years Winnipeg did not play in the Grey Cup.<\/p>\n

Condell, who spent the last two seasons as offensive co-ordinator for the Ottawa Redblacks, returns to the Bombers where was special teams co-ordinator in 1997 under then-head coach Jeff Reinbold.<\/p>\n

He takes over from Hogan, who served as offensive co-ordinator last season and will return as running backs coach, a role he filled from 2022 through 2024.<\/p>\n

\"AFormer defensive lineman Jake Thomas will take over as the defensive line position coach for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers next season. (Ethan Cairns\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n

Former Bombers defensive lineman Thomas takes over coaching duties from the retiring Darrell Patterson.<\/p>\n

The move comes a month after Thomas, 35, wrapped his playing career following 13 seasons with Winnipeg. The Canadian amassed 196 tackles, 33 sacks, five forced fumbles and one interception over 223 regular-season games, and won Grey Cups with the Bombers in 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-365047","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\/365047","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=365047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}