[Hatteras]

"They’d only go to individual contracts if the owners were stupid."

Or, in some cases, greedy.

[discostu]

That would be stupid because over the haul they’ll get more money negotiating national contracts via the league. I don’t think any of them will get ESPN to pay them 34.3 million bucks a season individually, but that’s what their share of the MNF contract works out to.