People haven't changed the channel yet, so stop caring about quality. I know you're being sarcastic but that's clearly the NFL's stance in negotiations here. The league is still making their money so they seem to think they can take a hardline with the refs. At this point is gonna take a clearly botched call that directly costs a team a victory for the outcry to be loud enough to get back to the negotiating table. If the NFL thinks the refs are panicking because the NFL is moving on without them, they are probably wrong. The amount of hilariously bad calls and decisions are piling up and it's getting more and more obvious that these refs are not going to get markedly better as the season goes on. In fact they seem to be getting worse. Anyways, unless the aforementioned scenario occurs, I could see this lasting the entire season.