You have the right to protect your company big or small. This is America, remember ? Capitalism.
Something Kaep and Reid are definitely taking advantage of right now through the back door.
If there is no successful capitalism for the NFL, there are no big lawsuits to be awarded for whatever.
As far as formal collusion? I doubt it. 32 owners are billionaires for a reason. They understand $$ and how it is made, how to make more and
how to protect it. As soon as Kaep showed his Farrakhan hatred for America and the effect it had viewership ratings across the country,
it didn't take a rocket scientist to know how to protect your company at that point. Kaep, chose to make himself "hot political garbage"
and as time went on when initially he was just pouting because he got benched (as someone said earlier in this thread). But then someone from the radical progressive left saw a huge political and monetary opportunity and got into his ear and said, "hey you want to take this to the moon and then make some serious $$ when it's all said and done? Here is how you do it
Much cheaper paying out the lawsuit than losing viewship ratings and retail.
On a side note, Kaep's big lack of QB acumen(refusing to be a passionate student of the game) was being exposed more and more as time went on and why his play went to manure. He like many others before him, V Young, RGIII, Leinert, etc.....had the same problem and I assure you it is only a matter of time before Lamar Jackson will be thrown into that same pile. John Harbaugh has made a huge mistake tethering his career to Lamar Jackson IMHO.