The NFL owners understand that over 70% of their employees are black, including some of their biggest stars. They don't want an employee rebellion. On the other hand, notice that none of them so far has hired Kaepernick. And they carefully made it impossible to keep Michael Sam on a roster. Trump has put them between a rock and a hard place. They must decide whether they side with the anti-American, BLM crowd over the feelings of the majority of their fans who don't want the flag and anthem disrespected.
The MSM is fully behind the players for a variety of reasons. The television networks have a pecuniary interest in keeping the NFL ratings high because of the revenue generated and the enormous sums they have paid to get the broadcasting rights. The MSM anti-Trump crowd want to use it as a club against Trump calling him a racist. It is just another way to increase the polarization of the country. Who would have ever thought that someone like Lebron James could get away with calling the President a "bum"?
I predict that the NFL owners will convene at some point to find a solution to the problem. The longer this goes on, the worse it is for them.
I predict that the NFL owners will convene at some point and fail to find a solution to the problem. Their commitments within the global socialist power structure have already caused them to wait too long and paint themselves into a corner.