The NFL has somewhere around 1,800 paid players, including practice squads. What if 360 of them were using illegal drugs for performance enhancement. Would you consider that a small number of athletes?
Jon Jansen didn't quite say that many were using HGH or some other form of banned substance, but when he said 15-20% of the NFL's players did use them, he might not have realized how many that is. His excuse, "Being a football player, I'm not real good at math. When you do the numbers, it sounds like a bigger percentage than it really is. I meant it was a small percentage of guys."
The league sent a couple of guys to talk with Jansen, but they got nowhere. Jansen, who has recently expressed his opinions about the use of illegal substances while talking to Bob Costas on HBO's "Costas Now," said none of the Redskins were using any that he knows of and that he can't recall anyone in particular. It's just a theory of his.
Let's just hope Jansen was talking out the side of his neck and gets his math straight in time for the Dallas game and remembers these keys numbers: Zero sacks, 4.5 yards per carry and away team's score greater than home team's score.
