Permission to talk: Is O'Shea leaving?

[SpeedFlex27]

Just now, M.O.A.B. said:

I'd like GM/HC Milanovich. 

I like separation of power. With the admin cap, it just sets teams up to keep deadwood right thru to the end of their contracts as what happened in Edmonton & Ottawa. As in Jones with the Elks & Dyce in Ottawa. That damned cap needs to go. 

15 minutes ago, Piggy 1 said:

Bye Bye ,all I'll say. And id take JY for HC ,I said it during the year. Khari can be OC. 

I like Jarious Jackson a lot better. An offensive coach with experience being with other teams under different head coaches. He's an outsider & I like that. 

[rebusrankin]

Milanovich is his own OC, correct? That's be an upgrade over Hogan.

[JuranBoldenRules]

Milanovich hasn't won a playoff game in his past six seasons as a CFL head coach.

He's got a terrible relationship with a lot of his players.  Very up and down, kind of personality that is not direct, cold and passive aggressive.

Not really on my list if you want to win.  I really think he's suited to running a QB room and really looks at the rest of the role leading a team with disgust.  But he's got the same issues in that role too with the human side of the job.

Edited 16 hours ago by JuranBoldenRules

[17to85]

So would Hamilton not be interested in talking to Kyle Walters about their GM job?

[Doublezero]

13 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Sunderland or Dejardins, you mean???? PLEASE STAY, WALTERS!!!! 

 

Like I said, Eric Deslauriers https://www.bluebombers.com/eric-deslauriers/

Or Brock Sunderland https://www.bluebombers.com/brock-sunderland/

There's also Jim Jauch who, like Sunderland, has experience scouting players who are familiar with a 100 yard field and goal posts at the front of the endzone.

Edited 16 hours ago by Doublezero

[HardCoreBlue]

1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:

Milanovich is his own OC, correct? That's be an upgrade over Hogan.

I would be an upgrade. Well maybe not, well no i wouldn’t be but you get my point and based on our O’s production and the use of certain players it would be tough to swallow if the idea is for him to continue to cut his teeth as an oc for the BB’s with the goal of him gradually getting better.

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

 

 

Its like people here have forgotten what it was like pre 2017... 

If Osh leaves, 90 percent of the posters in this thread are going to be all Man, why the **** did we let Osh go.

Why would we not at least give him a chance to correct his mistakes- dude had one bad year... like holy **** guys... get a grip FFS...

[wbbfan]

1 hour ago, M.O.A.B. said:

I'd like GM/HC Milanovich. 

 

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

I'll take Milanovich. 

Or Miller may decide to wipe the slate clean & hire an all new front office. Miller better get right down to business.. The off season is two weeks shorter. Stalling for a month or more will just set us back. 

Idk, I mean we could do worse. A lot worse actually. I’m not sure milanovich would be my primary target, but he’d be better than some junk retread. 

[wbbfan]

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

I like separation of power. With the admin cap, it just sets teams up to keep deadwood right thru to the end of their contracts as what happened in Edmonton & Ottawa. As in Jones with the Elks & Dyce in Ottawa. That damned cap needs to go. 

I like Jarious Jackson a lot better. An offensive coach with experience being with other teams under different head coaches. He's an outsider & I like that. 

I also like the wall between gm/hc over all. But with the limitations of the cap and coaching roster, I think a lot of guys need to do double duty. 

I think having a hc / agm working with a gm / sdpp(or president) and using that pay to slot in more scouting especially with in the cfl offers a gigantic advantage. 

44 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

So would Hamilton not be interested in talking to Kyle Walters about their GM job?

That is a damn good point! 

 

15 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

I would be an upgrade. Well maybe not, well no i wouldn’t be but you get my point and based on our O’s production and the use of certain players it would be tough to swallow if the idea is for him to continue to cut his teeth as an oc for the BB’s with the goal of him gradually getting better.

If we keep JY, maybe as an ast hc, I think he would be an upgrade to mos. With out walters, down grade imo. 

12 minutes ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:

 

 

Its like people here have forgotten what it was like pre 2017... 

If Osh leaves, 90 percent of the posters in this thread are going to be all Man, why the **** did we let Osh go.

Why would we not at least give him a chance to correct his mistakes- dude had one bad year... like holy **** guys... get a grip FFS...

You know mos was the hc here before 2017 right? The 3 previous seasons to that  even. 3 blown gcs, 2 years of heavy under performance due to the roster, Mos and our success are not mutually inclusive by any means. 

Why not give another strawman a chance? 

[HardCoreBlue]

21 minutes ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:

 

 

Its like people here have forgotten what it was like pre 2017... 

If Osh leaves, 90 percent of the posters in this thread are going to be all Man, why the **** did we let Osh go.

Why would we not at least give him a chance to correct his mistakes- dude had one bad year... like holy **** guys... get a grip FFS...

So what kind of specific corrections are you looking for?

Has anyone asked MOS what he needs to get better at as a Head Coach, what corrections he needs to make heading into 2026? What do you think he’d say? Do you think his public answers would be different than his behind closed door ones? This is what I would be interested in knowing we wouldn’t get access to the complete answer or what he’s really thinking.

Edited 15 hours ago by HardCoreBlue

[wbbfan]

2 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

So what kind of specific corrections are you looking for?

Has anyone asked MOS what he needs to get better at as a Head Coach, what corrections he needs to make heading into 2026? What do you think he’d say? Do you think his public answers would be different than his behind closed door ones? This is what I would be interested in knowing we wouldn’t get access to the complete answer or what he’s really thinking.

I would LOoove to see mos give an honest assessment of what he needs done to the roster, from his coaching staff and what he needs to do better. 
But I think all we’d get publicly is a no changes needed we know what we need to fix and it’s easy. Like we did last year. 

[Brandon]

29 minutes ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:

Its like people here have forgotten what it was like pre 2017... 

If Osh leaves, 90 percent of the posters in this thread are going to be all Man, why the **** did we let Osh go.

Why would we not at least give him a chance to correct his mistakes- dude had one bad year... like holy **** guys... get a grip FFS...

 

I think the issue is that we are going on 3 years of  waiting for O'Shea to correct his mistakes and it feels like he is doubling down on them instead.     

I'm perfectly ok with giving him more time with us,  but I'm heavily skeptical because we have trended downwards over this time with no signs of change.     

 

 

[Mark H.]

And yet...others are interested in his services.  

[brett_c_b]

Just accept, you're getting GM/HC/OC Paul Lapolice.  I would ask him about it on Twitter but he blocked me like a decade ago for chirping him. He and his wife both had thin skin

[wbbfan]

1 hour ago, Mark H. said:

And yet...others are interested in his services.  

it’s the cfl, you can very easily fail up into promotions, forget carrying over hc gigs. Every established hc in this league could keep coaching in this league till they died if they wanted. 

Plus, all coaches in pro sports and football have a half life. No matter how good they are. And some times a coach just needs a change of pace. Like when saban was with the dolphins. 

Football in general, remember that kelly just got another job running a whole league and that mack wasn’t out of work longer than he wanted to be. I mean how many times has chris jones returned now, and how long till he returns? 

53 minutes ago, brett_c_b said:

Just accept, you're getting GM/HC/OC Paul Lapolice.  I would ask him about it on Twitter but he blocked me like a decade ago for chirping him. He and his wife both had thin skin

Think she’d come back for a victory lap if that happened? bet she would lol.

I love lapo as a football mind, color and panel guy. Though I do get a lil nauseous flash back every time he says “throw behind the line route” of nichols throwing it to harris on 2nd and 8 then him churning for 4 yards and us punting again. 

I don’t need to see that guy running an offence again in the cfl. 

 

There are young guys in this league and country who deserve a shot to move up. as well as players aging out ready to start taking low level roles.

Look at what ssk has done with their young staff. I don’t think any one needs retreads. 

[Pete]

The thing that might end up keeping OShea here is loyalty not to Wpg, but to the group of vets that want one more crack at winning See Zac's comments of wanting to return with the group he's battled with.

[SpeedFlex27]

33 minutes ago, Pete said:

The thing that might end up keeping OShea here is loyalty not to Wpg, but to the group of vets that want one more crack at winning See Zac's comments of wanting to return with the group he's battled with.

In pro sports, the only loyalty is to the money. If the Argos give him financial freedom then Osh isn't coming back to coach anyone here because every player in that locker room would leave for the very same thing. The only thing O'Shea cares about is his family. 

Edited 12 hours ago by SpeedFlex27

[Bubba Zanetti]

12 hours ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:

 

 

Its like people here have forgotten what it was like pre 2017... 

If Osh leaves, 90 percent of the posters in this thread are going to be all Man, why the **** did we let Osh go.

Why would we not at least give him a chance to correct his mistakes- dude had one bad year... like holy **** guys... get a grip FFS...

You really believe a stubborn hard-headed guy like O'Shea is all of a sudden going to stop playing favorites, stop his blind vet loyalty, stop creating braindead gameday rosters, stop his piss-poor in game management/decisions, etc, etc?!?! Not a chance.

[GCn20]

On 2025-11-11 at 7:14 PM, sportmentary2012 said:

I think this is directly related to next season.  Do you think if he leaves that the Bombers will be worse off next year?

Yes..but only because if he leaves we will be massively rebuilding

[Bubba Zanetti]

11 hours ago, brett_c_b said:

Just accept, you're getting GM/HC/OC Paul Lapolice.  I would ask him about it on Twitter but he blocked me like a decade ago for chirping him. He and his wife both had thin skin

I want nothing to do with that bald-headed ferret.

[Goalie]

Facebook is pretty much all fake news and pictures of northern lights. I saw that Berger statement on Facebook so I automatically assumed when I saw it that it’s just a matter of time before O’Shea is signing an extension with us. Whenever Facebook mentions something it never turns out to be true so honestly. O’Shea is probably sticking around. An easy way to have Osh stop playing favourites is by not signing guys who are washed up. There’s a few on the FA list that are cooked. Gm don’t sign Jake or Willie or Neufeld or Bryant who I can’t believe ppl think at 40 would convert to center. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Goalie

[Booch]

On 2025-11-12 at 9:22 AM, blue85gold said:

This is silly. It wasn't an either/or choice. Schoen signed for like half of what Lawler got. 

and I would have hoped so coming off a knee rebuild and likely not to be ready for season....and then we pushed his return when it was obvious he wasnt ready...then he got rehurt and we continued to play him...and well we all seen how that panned out...possible ended his career...best case scenario is he maybe ready for end of 2026 seaso, but even then the smart move is to sit it all out and come backk for 2027...We may have seen last of Schoen here

 

22 hours ago, GCn20 said:

There is absolutely no reason in the world we couldn't sign both Lawler and Schoen. We had just done it the year before.

and yes we agree on this...We could have...we chose not to, or allocated dumb money to dumb incumbamts and priced ourselves out...That is one of Walter's blunders in this debacle of a season

 

[17to85]

53 minutes ago, GCn20 said:

Yes..but only because if he leaves we will be massively rebuilding

We're already rebuilding.... and if we're not then it's only going to get worse.

[GCn20]

21 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

We're already rebuilding.... and if we're not then it's only going to get worse.

We can go two directions this offseason. A partial rebuild or a full tear down. There is a big difference. The full rebuild depends on management/coaching change imo.

[rebusrankin]

Our OL, DL, WRs need serious work. That seems like we're leaning into full rebuild.