As per O'Shea's Facebook video on the Bomber page.

I do wonder what fans would be saying a month from now, what with there being several OC openings, if we didn't get the most experienced OC guy out there, and we had to scramble?

Hey, they had LaPo signing the contract at LaPo's house, so that means they went hard and fast after the man.

I have no confidence that Lapo can put together a quality offense without Milt Stegall, Charles Roberts, Mike Sellers, Arland Bruce, etc.....

His offense scored the 2nd most points in the league in 2009. He'll be fine.

I'm willing to give LaPo a chance. Maybe his forte is being an OC instead of a HC. I usually criticize everything that Walters & O' Shea do. Not this time though. I think Paul & Drew will work well together. Looking forward to see how they do.

I'm happy with this hire. We got worse both times he got fired. Be nice to hopefully see him work with some real talent again.

I have no confidence that Lapo can put together a quality offense without Milt Stegall, Charles Roberts, Mike Sellers, Arland Bruce, etc.....

 considering how bad the offence was the last year he had those guys im scared.

Yay, we go for the easy/buddy hire again.

gary lawless

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O'Shea told me a while back he wasn't scared to hire a HC in waiting as OC. Thinking was hire best guy and win, keep job @Wpg_BlueBombers

4:38 PM - 7 Dec 2015

Bob Irving @BobIrvingCJOB

I'm not an I told you so guy--BUT--been telling you on 680cjob for weeks that a vastly more experienced lapolice would be bombers OC.

some of these posts are laughable.

 

He was the most qualified and experienced guy available. The rest were/are unknowns and lacking experience.

 

Heck..let's give Maas a few more consecutive years of success to say we say he is so great. He came out of know where and truth be told was reaping the rewards of all the guys on his squad having career years together and the fact had zero injuries all year long to affect his offence.

 

And when it came down to it in the playoffs they got pretty much shut down and he had no answers.

 

Lapo has had years now since he was a sole OC and you can be assured he has progressed and learned and knows what didn't work and what does. He has spent the better part of two years now dissecting and analyzing defenses and how offences should attack, and what offensives shouldn't do based on looks. He has come a long way and it is noticeable from what he is saying.

 

He is going to build a very competent attacking offence and the naysayers will be put to rest. He is the best available option and we got aggressive and grabbed him. Well done if you ask me 

Ok, it's Friesen...but this is good -

Rumour has it Paul LaPolice will be at the news conference announcing his hiring tomorrow, but not allowed to speak. #Bombers.

— Paul Friesen (@friesensunmedia)

December 8, 2015

Paul will be a good one now get him a QB and a OL.

We got to get a couple QB's.

Paul will be a good one now get him a QB and a OL.

We got to get a couple QB's.

 

When did we get an OL? he sucked it up with khari jones too...

Paul will be a good one now get him a QB and a OL.

We got to get a couple QB's.

we have a qb who had a lousy coordinator, we have the building blocks for a good oline.

Pleased with the hire. I think he's the best guy realistically available. 

 

Its just sad that Walters can't find players.

I still want K.Jones here as QB coach, if it's possible.

And Bob Dyce as ST coordinator.

What's with all the losers out there saying "now that we've got our OC we need to get a QB"? Been reading that all over. How dumb are people to think Willy is not a great QB?

I actually...like this?

I still want K.Jones here as QB coach, if it's possible.

And Bob Dyce as ST coordinator.

That would be great. Not sure if Khari would come here just to be a QB coach though.

I think my biggest issue with this hire is that the upside is essentially nil. A guy his age doesn't change drastically enough to suddenly become a playcalling wizard.

The thing that makes me even sadder is there is all this young coaching talent around the league, (Steinhauer, Maas, Jackson, Brady, Dickenson etc) and I honestly can't remember the last time the Bombers had an innovative young coach that other teams wanted to poach. Was it Creehan? Yuck.

I actually...like this?

That's it!  Plan the parade!

Surprised he didn't get the assistant HC title

..yet

I think my biggest issue with this hire is that the upside is essentially nil. A guy his age doesn't change drastically enough to suddenly become a playcalling wizard.

The thing that makes me even sadder is there is all this young coaching talent around the league, (Steinhauer, Maas, Jackson, Brady, Dickenson etc) and I honestly can't remember the last time the Bombers had an innovative young coach that other team's wanted to poach. Was it Creehan? Yuck.

I'm still kinda hopeful Buck might be that guy one day...

LaPolice made ten professional visits during his time away and continued to improve his playbook @Wpg_BlueBombers @cfl

— gary lawless (@garylawless)

December 8, 2015

This has got to be great news for Drew Willy.

I think my biggest issue with this hire is that the upside is essentially nil. A guy his age doesn't change drastically enough to suddenly become a playcalling wizard.

The thing that makes me even sadder is there is all this young coaching talent around the league, (Steinhauer, Maas, Jackson, Brady, Dickenson etc) and I honestly can't remember the last time the Bombers had an innovative young coach that other team's wanted to poach. Was it Creehan? Yuck.

I'm still kinda hopeful Buck might be that guy one day...

I figure maybe Howell rather Buck.

I don't mind this... maybe Khari will end up as QB coach

Pretty pumped about this hire! Excited to have a run game for the first time since he was last fired. and I think with Willy his offence is going to be fantastic