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Published on 04/29/2008 at Tue Apr 29 10:49.
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Brian Xanders Offered Job to Assist Goodmans in Broncos GM Duties

Posted Tue Apr 29th by

[Brian Xanders]

The release of former Denver Broncos General Manager Ted Sundquist has left a hole in the team’s executive heirarchy. In his stead, long time Broncos scout and personnel executive Jeff Goodman and his son, recently promoted Assistant GM Jim Goodman, were given added tasks to run the personnel department. To help the Goodmans, the Broncos have reportedly offered long-time Atlanta Falcons coach and executive Brian Xanders a job in upper management, the Denver Post reports.

The title and duties of the offered position are unknown, but it is believed that the Broncos will move forward without any one person holding the title of “General Manager.”

The story around this guy is hard to find on the Internet, but apparently he was either already released or on his way out of Atlanta, and almost had a Packers job in a similar role. His bio page has been taken off Atlanta’s official site.  I’m not even 100% certain that this is actually him pictured here (first hit on Google Image and that’s about it) [ED: Yeah it’s him, thanks in the comments].

Another guy needed to be added – the Goodmans were busy enough as it was. Hopefully this three-headed monster can function for us in the future as well as the Goodmans did this past weekend.

  • http://birty.blogspot.com mikebirty

    http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:OW6Nu89Tm2YJ:www.atlantafalcons.com/People/Staff/Scouting/Brian_Xanders.aspx

    The page is still cached by google.

    Xanders, 36, played for Bobby Bowden at Florida State as a middle linebacker and was a member of four bowl-winning teams, compiling a record of 42-7 during his career.

  • http://broncotalk.net Kyle

    Thanks birty, Josh actually just pointed that out to me too via e-mail.

  • CompUser

    royalmarshalls writes:

    Question everyone. Didnt we just hire Xanders at the beggining of last year BEFORE the awesome draft we had that everyone is speaking of? I could be very very wrong so please correct me if I am thinking false information and at least back it up with dates for proof, but I am seriously under the beleif that we hired him prior to the 2008 NFL Draft, which coincidentally was the draft we all fell in love with.
    Accorning to BroncoTalk.net, he was hired 29 Apr 08. The draft was 27-28 Apr, so who knows, maybe he was there and took part?