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Head coach Mike O'Shea signs three-year extension with Blue Bombers

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Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach Mike O’Shea during Grey Cup team practice in Regina, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. The Blue Bombers have signed head coach O’Shea to a three-year contract extension. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu

WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have signed head coach Mike O’Shea to a three-year contract extension.

O’Shea won his second consecutive Annis Stukus Trophy as the CFL’s top coach this year after leading the Blue Bombers to a club-record 15 regular-season wins and a third straight trip to the Grey Cup.

The Blue Bombers are 82-58 under O’Shea with Grey Cup championships in 2019 and 2021.

Winnipeg has posted six consecutive seasons with double-digit wins, matching a franchise-best stretch first established from 1957-62.

A former star linebacker, O’Shea was named to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2017 after a 16-year playing career with Toronto and Hamilton that saw him earn three Grey Cup rings.

He began his coaching career as special teams co-ordinator with Toronto from 2010-13, helping the Argonauts win a Grey Cup in 2012.

Argonauts in 2010 and served there through 2013 – winning a Grey Cup in 2012 - before being hired by the Blue Bombers.

He was hired as the Blue Bombers' head coach before the 2014 season.

The Blue Bombers said O'Shea will address the extension at a press conference on Friday. 

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 8, 2022.

The Canadian Press


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