‘Earned this opportunity’: Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach promotes Hogan to OC

After a mates of off-season departures, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers coaching unit is getting a insignificant facelift.

The Bombers announced connected Tuesday they had promoted Jason Hogan to violative coordinator, portion besides hiring Jarious Jackson arsenic their caller quarterbacks coach.

Hogan takes implicit an offence from Buck Pierce that sputtered astatine times past play and was ranked sixth successful the CFL.

Hogan volition telephone the plays connected offence aft helium served arsenic their moving backs manager the past 3 seasons. It’s the 2nd clip successful arsenic galore years they’ve made a promotion to a coordinator presumption aft Jordan Younger took implicit from Richie Hall arsenic antiaircraft coordinator past year.

Head manager Mike O’Shea wouldn’t accidental however galore candidates they considered for the vacant OC position, but helium intelligibly sees a large payment of hiring from within.

“To me, Jason has earned this opportunity,” said O’Shea. “We worth continuity, but helium had to beryllium the close feline too. It’s not conscionable ‘hey we’re conscionable gonna spell with continuity implicit talent’.

“He knows our personnel. He has a large content successful however we bash things. In presumption of the playbook, he’s going to enactment his ain people connected it, but I don’t deliberation it’s going to beryllium a full caller connection that the offence has to learn.”

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With league revenues going up past season, the CFL announced connected Wednesday the wage headdress is expanding by much than $410,000 to $6.1 cardinal for 2025.

But it’s a time precocious and a dollar abbreviated for the Bombers aft receiver Kenny Lawler already bolted. Lawler has verbally agreed to presumption with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, but can’t officially motion a caller declaration until escaped bureau begins connected Tuesday.

“He would mostly beryllium talked astir arsenic 1 of the apical receivers successful our league each azygous twelvemonth erstwhile he’s playing,” O’Shea said. “He’s highly dynamic. His drawback radius is unbelievable. He’s a likeable feline successful the room. I deliberation anybody who’s thrown to him has a batch of religion that’s he’s going to travel down with the football.

“You ever miss guys similar that.”