Oct 26th 2008 12:44PM by Tom Mantzouranis (author feed)
Filed under: Saints, NFL Media Watch, NFL Real TalkI’m from New Jersey and have seen every episode of , so I like to fancy myself an expert in the field of keeping information “in the family.” Roger Goodell, apparently, is not.

Time and time again, the shroud of privacy that the NFL promises its players in certain situations turns out to be as thin as tissue paper; players are held to the tightest-lipped of standards while seeing that courtesy unrequited with every bolded headline exposing a player’s “private” matters.

We got a repeat lesson on this hypocrisy this week, when four of supposedly 15ish players — Saints Deuce McAllister, Charles Grant, and Will Smith along with Texan Bryan Pittman — were outed as having tested positive for a diuretic that resides on the league’s banned substance list. Results of these tests aren’t supposed to be made public.Continue Reading