Archives for May 12, 2001

‘Buffalo Bills President and General Manager Tom Donahoe has offered a job to his friend and highly respected former colleague, Tom Modrak.’

‘Regarded as an unbiased source by Chargers president Dean Spanos, Johnson told Spanos over the course of a half-dozen phone conversations and two meetings in the Florida Keys that the team needed to get the best possible general manager while retaining coach Mike Riley. [Unbiased? With his star pupil coaching the team he used to coach and Butler GM of their chief rival? Sounds like JJ & Butler talked to each other.]

"It wasn’t a league that developed players or tried to make its own stars," Donahoe said. "It was a league comprised of players who, for whatever reason, just weren’t good enough to make it in the NFL. We didn’t scout (the XFL) and I doubt you’ll see even one of their players in our camp."

‘In a twist, Modrak could have some options, with Buffalo Bills general manager Tom Donahoe telling SportsLine.com on Friday he has offered his old colleague a job. The two men worked together in Pittsburgh…’.