The AP spoke to 66 players who have been in the NFL at least four seasons, and 34 with less experience, and the divide between the groups was striking.
Over a two-month span this season, AP reporters posed a set of five questions to at least three members of each of the NFL's 32 teams to gauge attitudes and anxieties about football.
"Some of the guys I hear stories from, they don't trust the team opinions. (Teams are) pushing guys and telling them to 'Go!'" Jacksonville Jaguars running back Denard Robinson said. "That's crazy. That's crazy to hear that."
During a conference call Friday to discuss a 58 percent increase in concussions during regular-season games, Betsy Nabel, the league's chief health and medical adviser, pledged to "continue to invest in research and focus on driving innovation that will lead to a better understanding of how we can prevent, diagnose and treat not just head injury, but all injuries as well."
And yet, some insist,Wholesale China Jerseys, they don't believe they're receiving the best possible care. Fewer than half of those surveyed, 47 players, said they think the league's clubs, coaches and team doctors have the athletes' best interests at heart when it comes to health and safety. Of the rest, 39 said players' interests don't always come first, and 14 either weren't sure or refused to respond.
"It's their job to make you playable," Detroit Lions safety Don Carey said. "There's a lot of pressure on them to keep guys on the field."
Barely a third of the older players, 35 percent, told the AP they trust that their interests are being protected. That was far lower than the 71 percent of players in Years 1-3 who held that positive outlook.
"The one thing I always say is: The game catches up to everybody," said Lauvao, who wasn't part of the AP survey. "My hope and prayer is that I want everybody to be healthy and to be prosperous. But I don't know if that'll happen. Call me hopeful or call me crazy."
— 70 brought up the notion that injuries are guaranteed to happen to every player and/or mentioned that they know the risks associated with football but aim to set those thoughts aside,NFL Jerseys Supply.

Speaking about NFL medical care in general, Cincinnati Bengals offensive lineman Andrew Whitworth said: "In this day and age, it's a ton better than it's ever been, but I think there's still some times certain things aren't fully disclosed, as far as: Maybe it's something you can play through, but the reality is it's going to make you a lot worse after the season."
Sometimes, Casey explained, "You get your coach or trainer constantly coming up to you, telling you, 'Oh, you coming back this week? You going to be ready tomorrow? You think you can go today?' A lot of times,Cheap NFL Jerseys, you get in your mind: 'Does Coach really want to see me healthy? Or do they really want to see me play?'"
Players get loaded up with painkillers or prescription anti-inflammatory medicine to such elevated levels that an AP reporter saw notes taped to locker-room stalls in one team's facility offering to administer blood tests to monitor liver function.
— 52 rated their general level of concern about injuries as high or medium ("You can break your neck at any moment; it's not like we're playing golf," Washington Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall said), while 48 said it was low or nonexistent.
The NFL told the AP that there were 1,672 injuries during 2015 regular-season games that resulted in missed time, which works out to roughly one for each player in the league. And that doesn't account for injuries in the preseason, postseason or practices.
Denver Broncos defensive lineman Antonio Smith is a rarity in the NFL: He does not get injured. The Super Bowl will mark his 179th appearance in 180 games since the middle of the 2005 season, a decade of astonishingly good health in a relentlessly violent sport.
Among the results from the nonscientific survey:
A total of 275 players, an average of one per team every other week, went on injured reserve during the regular season, twice as many as in 2001 and the highest number for any year in that span, according to STATS. And then there are the guys who get back out there, over and over, no matter what might be ailing them. Just one example: Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis — already recovered from three ACL surgeries — intends to play in the Super Bowl two weeks after breaking his right forearm in the NFC title game.
"Just like the NFL tells us, there's a 100 percent risk of injury," said New England Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler, who made the Super Bowl-clinching interception last year.
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