Should Team Spanos and Team Bosa agree to a contract -- and there's very little in the financials for them to dispute -- a Eureka-like discovery may gob-smack the two families.
They’re more alike than not, which would be easier to see if they got back on the same side.
A family-first, prideful mindset exudes from them, and wellsprings of stubbornness -- or is it scrappiness? -- run deep with both sides.
It's truly a unique standoff. Of the other 158 negotiations involving a first-round draftee under the current NFL labor pact, all 158 got done by July or a few days into August.