If you ever wonder where your time goes, give up watching sports. If you complain you can never get anything done, give up watching sports.
Lets see how long they can pay multimillion dollar contracts to spoiled adolescents who hate large segments of their customers, who think throwing and catching balls in games that mean nothing in the big picture.
I would say this. By the spring of 2017, contract offers will basically drop on average of about two or three percent compared against 2015 or 2016 (my humble guess). I don’t see any mega players getting massive long-term contracts right now. The question will be if the next season starts out like this. Another feature will players hostile that they took a two or three percent pay-cut because of the knee-down business of their fellow players.
Long term, the NFL and the networks are working on a massive loss....into the hundreds of millions.