"Obviously it affects those guys first and foremost, but we've got to move forward," Payton said of...

"Obviously it affects those guys first and foremost, but we've got to move forward," Payton said of the players, who tested positive for a banned diuretic last summer. "Obviously with Bobby McCray, players like Paul Spicer, Jeff Charleston and Anthony Hargrove, who we just signed, we feel like we've got some guys who have played in this league.

"I know this. We're deeper there now than we would have been at anytime last year if they would have had to serve their suspension."

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Well, it's finally done (I think). They found a judge who would stick to the hard line of players being responsible for what's in their bodies.

It seems to me that if this is really what the NFL is standing on as the principle of its substance abuse policy, then they might as well just not have ANYTHING ELSE on paper or in practice about substance abuse policy, because it just gets them into trouble.

Hopefully we can hang on in the first four weeks – get lucky with great performances from our backups or have those early teams not be very good yet so we can beat them.

I found two items in that story VERY INTERESTING:

“The biggest injustice done to us was that our names were leaked,” said McAllister, who pointed out that it was revealed during the trial that eight other players had tested positive in the past for the same diuretic, bumetanide, but they weren’t suspended. “It’s kind of picking and choosing which players you want to suspend and which ones you don’t.”

(Emphasis mine) What?!? I believe this matter of the “Unsuspended Eight” others deserves further investigation.

Also,