Some actions, once taken, cannot be walked back.
The NFL players association is caught in a snare of their own making. They have had two weeks to reverse course and disavow any “empathy” with Colin Kaepernick, and still they misread the temper of the fan base all wrong.
...that and the protests are predicated on demonstrable lies and everybody knows it.
It will take a summit with Trump to walk this back, for the good of the country and the sport. Maybe Colin Kaepernick himself will need to go. It's that or die. Plus, something like that will settle the thing without the League or owners participating, which at this point is what needs to happen. The players need to save their own sport because the others involved have no idea what they are doing.