WATCH: Tom Brady sounds off on NFL's decision to add 17th game to season

When the NFL owners decided to add a 17th game to the 2021 NFL regular season and beyond, it wasn’t exactly warmly embraced by everyone in the league. Plenty of players were not happy about it, including Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady.

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Tom Brady really dislikes the fact that the NFL added a 17th game to the season.

"I think it's pointless. I thought it was a terrible decision"

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“I think it’s pointless,” Brady said Monday on his Let’s Go! podcast with Jim Gray. “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. 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.”

Brady has a legitimate point here. Adding an extra game to the NFL slate just didn’t make a lot of sense for a number of reasons. The players already deal with so many injuries throughout the season. Why make them risk it in one more game? The move didn’t make a lot of sense.

It’s a smart business decision for the owners when it comes to purely money, but the owners have been short-sighted over the years when it comes to understanding the need to keep their players fresh and healthy.

If the players aren’t fresh and healthy, the on-field product will suffer tremendously.

New Orleans Saints star running back Alvin Kamara was not happy with the move to 17-games, either, and blasted the move on his Twitter account.

As he mentioned in the podcast, Brady has not been shy about voicing his opinion on certain topics over the years.

Tom Brady career accolades

Tom Brady has broken numerous NFL records during his storied career and he’s widely considered as the greatest quarterback of all-time. He recently threw the 600th touchdown pass of his NFL career. He’s already won seven Super Bowl trophies. The California native has won three NFL MVP trophies. Brady has been named to the Pro Bowl 14 times in his NFL career. He owns a number of NFL passing records–including: most career wins, most career touchdown passes, most career passing yards, and most career passing attempts.