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It looks like this will end up being a case where the obscenely wealthy (billionaire owners) essentially won by splitting the locker rooms between the wealthy superstar multi-millionaires (Rodgers, Wilson, JJ Watt) and the minimum level guys and the bottom half of the rosters making close to that. It looks like the only thing the owners are giving up of any value is to raise the minimum salary by 100-200K a year. That's what the rank and file is jumping at, and a lot of those guys last less than 2-3 years so they can't afford to lose money in a strike or a lockout. 

The owners get an extra game (where the guys with big contracts are going to paid less money), give up a minimum amount of revenue sharing, and get labor cost certainty to negotiate the next TV contract. They'll get this without giving really anything else up in terms of health care or perhaps putting money in a pool to support retired players to finish their Bachelors degrees or get graduate degrees. 

There's a reason these guys are billionaires. 

 

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