Blue Bombers announce coaching changes

[theaardvark]

Hogan as RB coach after BO20 re-signs means that both are good with the arrangement.

Will be interesting to see how the rest shakes out.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Link to Coaches audio press conference, O'Shea explaining how he came to these decisons.

https://www.bluebombers.com/2025/12/22/coach-oshea-december-22/

[TBURGESS]

Good news all round. 

[Jesse]

Link to Coaches audio press conference, O'Shea explaining how he came to these decisons.

https://www.bluebombers.com/2025/12/22/coach-oshea-december-22/

It's really frustrating to hear Mike say all the same things we said when Hogan was hired. Just a dumb move and a wasted season for a veteran team and home Grey Cup.


"We weren't good enough last year for a variety of reasons and we needed to seek someone with more experience," O'Shea told the media on Monday.

"I think the timing (of the promotion last year) was just maybe a little too soon for him"

https://3downnation.com/2025/12/22/mike-oshea-jason-hogan-disappointed-in-blue-bombers-demotion-but-still-good-coach/

[LXTSN]

It's really frustrating to hear Mike say all the same things we said when Hogan was hired. Just a dumb move and a wasted season for a veteran team and home Grey Cup.


"We weren't good enough last year for a variety of reasons and we needed to seek someone with more experience," O'Shea told the media on Monday.

"I think the timing (of the promotion last year) was just maybe a little too soon for him"

https://3downnation.com/2025/12/22/mike-oshea-jason-hogan-disappointed-in-blue-bombers-demotion-but-still-good-coach/

It's nice that he's owning that and I really hope that he learns from his mistakes.
For the betterment of the teams success, you need to make those hard decisions.

[RebusRankin]

I wish Hogan had been let go but suspect he had a two year deal and this is a Coaches cap issue.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

It's nice that he's owning that and I really hope that he learns from his mistakes.
For the betterment of the teams success, you need to make those hard decisions.

Just a theory, but I think they intended to hire Jackson as the OC, but his delayed arrival screwed up the entire transition and last minute they handed the ball off to Hogan.

[gobombersgo]

[DM83]

C'mon boys. Position coaches are usually great teachers and know the position they are hired for. Good for Hogan and Fatboi.  Hogan can continue to grow. Jake, who can learn the art of coaching. He certainly has the experience to teach young Canadians who may want to play the position.

Now let's get some football players of the future.

[The Zipp]

It's really frustrating to hear Mike say all the same things we said when Hogan was hired. Just a dumb move and a wasted season for a veteran team and home Grey Cup.


"We weren't good enough last year for a variety of reasons and we needed to seek someone with more experience," O'Shea told the media on Monday.

"I think the timing (of the promotion last year) was just maybe a little too soon for him"

https://3downnation.com/2025/12/22/mike-oshea-jason-hogan-disappointed-in-blue-bombers-demotion-but-still-good-coach/

very true. things we saw in the first 3 games and no action was taken.  notice the rams - a super bowl contender fired their special teams coordinator this week after there were 2 games where special teams were lacking.  see a problem - take action.  Hogan should never have been hired and he should have been shown the door after the first third of the season and we had many games with entire quarters of no first downs.   

MOS waited too long then stuck his head in the sand and it cost us big time. 

onward and upward..

[Blueforlife]

very true. things we saw in the first 3 games and no action was taken.  notice the rams - a super bowl contender fired their special teams coordinator this week after there were 2 games where special teams were lacking.  see a problem - take action.  Hogan should never have been hired and he should have been shown the door after the first third of the season and we had many games with entire quarters of no first downs.   

MOS waited too long then stuck his head in the sand and it cost us big time. 

onward and upward..

Very easy to rub his nose in it after the fact.  I believe it's a wise choice to give someone a fair shot and it's really easy to point fingers after.  A challenging year, a mistake but those happen.  We get to retain Hogan who can develop and we get a good new coach.  Doesn't always work out.

C'mon boys. Position coaches are usually great teachers and know the position they are hired for. Good for Hogan and Fatboi.  Hogan can continue to grow. Jake, who can learn the art of coaching. He certainly has the experience to teach young Canadians who may want to play the position.

Now let's get some football players of the future.

Agree all, great post.

[The Zipp]

Very easy to rub his nose in it after the fact.  I believe it's a wise choice to give someone a fair shot and it's really easy to point fingers after.  A challenging year, a mistake but those happen.  We get to retain Hogan who can develop and we get a good new coach.  Doesn't always work out.Agree all, great post.

myself and many others were saying early in the season what MOS said at the end. not rubbing any noses - it wasn't a mystery, it was very evident Hogan wasn't ready and MOS did nothing. 

we had it pegged..