Let me spell this out as simply as I can for you, given your are this slow.
As a means of keeping the NFL cash cow producing money, the NFL has realized that testing EVERYONE is leading to a ton of cases showing up - because the vaccinated contract and spread Covid. The NFL eliminated weekly Covid-19 testing for vaccinated players who are asymptomatic. Therefore what that means Floggy is the NFL is going to REDUCE testing for certain populations of the NFL.
As Madinsomniac has pointed out to you time and again, our cases numbers are way, way off base because after vaccines began being administered, vaccinated people stopped getting tested.
Now, more and more vaxed people are being tested and found to have Covid. Like...the...NFL. So the NFL says "let's stop testing vaccinated asymptomatic players" and only test the symptomatic.
The NFL is breaking its prior protocol because it realizes the protocol is going to lead to forfeited games...which leads to a loss of revenue.
Not one iota of that has anything whatsoever in the least at all to do with a mandate. It's a critical jab at the NFL for backtracking its testing policies and its rules in an attempt to keep as many players on the field, including those carrying the virus....to generate $$.
I'm sure somehow you think this is brilliant. You alone would.