NEW ORLEANS — The NFLPA conducted a poll of its current membership and found that many NFL players don’t trust their teams’ medical staffs, doctors and trainers fully.

Seventy-eight percent of the polled players, when asked if they trusted their team’s medical staff, responded with an answer of “not at all.” An additional 15 percent rated their trust as being only slightly more trustworthy than that.

Only 43 percent of respondents rated their team training staffs as being "good," per the internal union data. The NFLPA said the poll was taken over the latter portion of the season and that all 32 teams were represented in the study, but did not release how many players participated. Union spokesman George Atallah said the data collected included a “scientifically valid sample size” of current players.

The NFL was not aware of the union's findings until the information was released today, Atallah said.

NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith time and time again has stated that player care, health and safety are the union’s utmost concern. NFLPA president Domonique Foxworth said that he believes the NFL is concerned about the same issues and that the league places it in its top concerns, but that it’s not high enough.

“It’s well behind increasing the bottom line,” Foxworth said of the NFL priorities.

Union members pointed to the referee lockout, Thursday night games and the league’s desire to expand from a 16-game regular-season schedule as evidence that the NFL cares more about expanding revenue than increasing safety. Smith called those things “a blatant disregard” of player safety by the NFL.