Okay, I’m going to go real slow here, shit for brains. If you still don’t get it, you’re beyond help.
The players, players unions and agents have demanded free agency and fought any efforts of the owners to control salaries. They have even gone to court over it to win these “rights” by claiming that stopping them is interference in the free market. THAT’s the straw man, dumb ass. They have gotten the courts to buy the bogus argument that the NFL is a free market, and that attempts by the owners to limit free agency and impose salary caps represents industry collusion. That’s how salaries have gotten out of control.
If you want to remain stupid, that’s your problem.
A large part of your dementia was that the NFL is hiding the fact that it is not 32 separate companies. You can’t hide what is common knowledge, toodles.