You can call it whatever you want, you can call it the law or the workforce rule or whatever you want to call it. These guys are contractors, they work for themselves. They have a certain guideline to follow, which is written in their contracts, but at the end of the day, they are in charge of their own path in the NFL.
They don't get paid what the owners want, they get paid what BOTH of them negotiate. The agents and the player are in business together, sort of partners. Don't let the silly little writing fool you, that's the corporate bull(*&^ corporations like to use. If you want to be a sheep and follow that logic, go ahead, it's sort of your style anyways.
None of that means squat anyways, so here's a hand, you can argue with that.
The bottom line is, these owners will step up and do what's best for themselves and then the fans, which is get certain players in there, and the players know this. The owners have power, but I think in the grand scope of things, the players have equal amounts of power, it's rather they choose to use it or not. Guess who used his power against the owner, Zeke did. Guess who else used his power, Tank did. And guess who's using that power right now, Prescott is. And if I were a player, I'd play hard ball and wouldn't give a spit what you or your mother, or the president of Toyota said, I'd want to get what the market suggests I got, and wouldn't take anything less.