NFL is a hard-fought sport. It’s a sport where careers are short and fast. If you’re lucky enough, you can play in the league for a long time if injuries don’t catch up to you. The NFL extending the season to 17 games didn’t sit too well with one very successful quarterback. His name is Tom Brady.

“I think it’s pointless,” he said on the latest episode of “Let’s Go!” podcast. “I thought it was a terrible decision. I think 16 is plenty.”

The option to expand the regular season was initially built into the CBA but wasn’t exercised until the league signed a new media contract. In March, NFL voters approved and finalized the change to add a preseason game and another regular-season game to the 2021-22 schedule.

“I love the sport. I love seeing great football. How do you come together to put together the best possible product for all the people who are watching and investing their time? And we’ve been in an incredible economy the last bunch of years; we really have been. The growth of the sport has been great. And I think that the owners and the league have done a great job in growing it to a global audience. The business of football is great. Absolutely.”

Brady is not wrong for the way that he feels. The sport is constantly evolving, and owners can dominate any relationship in sports. Owners care about the product. We might see the NFL extending the game to 18, 19, or even 20 games in the future. The same thing goes for the playoff format.