Reactions To Tom Brady Saying He Hates The 17 Game NFL Season, Wants Players To Revolt

• On his weekly Let’s Go! podcast with Jim Gray and Larry Fitzgerald, Tom Brady expressed how much he really dislikes the NFL’s new 17 game season.
• The Bucs quarterback called it a “terrible decision” and “pointless” and called for some kind of player revolt against the system that is currently in place.
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Tom Brady is really not a fan of the new 17 game NFL season that is being implemented by the league this year.

We know this because during the latest episode of his Let’s Go podcast that he hosts with Jim Gray and Larry Fitzgerald the 44-year-old quarterback made his feelings about the 17 game schedule crystal clear.

“I think it’s pointless,” said Brady, getting right to the point. “I thought it was a terrible decision. So I don’t like the fact that we’re playing a 17th game at all.

“I think 16 is plenty. And, again, you’re eight games into the year and you’re not halfway through, so that’s kind of a little frustrating aspect. So whatever, I mean, we’ll play it. It’s there, you know, a lot of guys probably miss games over the course of the season anyway, so they probably don’t play all 16, most guys.

“But, you know, if you’re fortunate to be able to make it through a season and you got to play the 17th game, I think there’s a lot of things that I would adjust to, you know, the offseason, you know, the regular season schedule.

“A lot of people know my feelings on some of these topics. I’ve been pretty vocal about NFL issues over the last couple of years and some of the things that are done that I don’t necessarily think are in the best interests of the game.”

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Brady then addressed why he believes things like the 17 game NFL schedule happen even if players supposedly aren’t in favor of it.

“Because the owners haven’t had to listen to the players,” Brady explained. “Because usually what the owners want the owners get. So, you know, that’s just the way the business has gone.

“And we need strong union leadership from the player standpoint and a unified union in order to have the right amount of leverage to negotiate what we think is appropriate for an NFL player. But right now it’s more like we get told what to do and, yeah, there’s a vote and a CBA, but the choice is: don’t play or play under these circumstances.”

Brady continued, “We have union leadership which absolutely does the best they can based on the circumstances that they have but it is very challenging to get 1500 players to agree. And it’s much easier to get 32 owners to agree who have all the information and they do regular quarterly meetings and they meet and they’re all interested in growing the game. Which, look, the players want to grow the game as well but we want to grow it in a way that’s, again, that’s right for the players as well. So there’s not a lot of thought that goes into that and I don’t think the coaches are represented as well, either.”

Reactions on social media to Tom Brady’s statements, which at the very least are thought provoking, were the usual mixed bag.

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