Does NFL really care about player safety?

More examples of the rampant hypocrisy regarding the safety of players in the National Football League.

The NFL makes new rules that are meant to improve safety. The league basically eliminated the kickoff return two years ago.

In 2012, the NFL started playing their Thursday night schedule in early September. The NFL Network Thursday night games used to start in late November. Of course, the NFL Network Thursday night games are relatively new, beginning in recent years.

If the teams playing on Thursday night came off a bye week, meaning the teams had a nice long rest between games, then that would be fine.

But the teams playing on Thursday night have played on the previous Sunday. So where's the concern for player safety? By pushing the start schedule back to September last year, that meant a lot more teams and players were subjected to playing at least one game on the short, unhealthy schedule.

In olden times, the only short-week games were played on Thanksgiving Day. Two of the teams, Dallas and Detroit, played on that day every year. But only four teams were expo