While there’s a long list of things Brady can’t do during his four-game suspension, one of the things he can do is continue his halftime interviews with Jim Gray on Westwood One radio.

Brady’s chat with Gray for Thursday night’s game marked the first time he’s talked since his suspension began, and he touched on a variety of topics with the veteran reporter.

Most interesting was Brady agreeing with Gray when asked if the power commissioner Roger Goodell has – outside of punishments specifically spelled out in the collective bargaining agreement, it’s basically unlimited – needs to be changed.

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“I think the system can always be improved,” Brady said. “Not just for my situation because my situation is obviously in the past, but for everyone’s situation in the future. I think we as players need to stand together so collectively we can be as strong as possible and the NFL can continue to provide and be as great of a game as it is.”

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Even if some players don’t want to get up in arms because of Brady’s case, the railroading of James Harrison, Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers last month, with the NFL threatening to suspend them if they did not meet with the league to discuss feather-light allegations that they use performance-enhancing drugs in an Al-Jazeera America documentary earlier this year, should be a call to action to the general populace of NFL players. Currently, if you don’t cooperate to the level the NFL deems acceptable, you will be punished and there’s not much you can do about it.

“Well, I actually think it is a great opportunity for the players to come together and the players to recognize all the things that we have negotiated and as we negotiate hopefully a CBA extension, that we as players come together to really stand up for the things that we believe in and continue to fight just as the players that fought before us,” Brady said. “I think I have great respect for the guys who fought to stand up for the rights of the players just as myself and certain players did in 2011. I know there will need to be great leadership from the players moving forward.

“It definitely is a business and the players need to understand what is collectively bargained and understand all the issues that are put on the table that can make for a better game. I think that is what all the fans would want.”

Brady did lend his name to the players’ anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL during the 2011 lockout, and because of alphabetical order, the case was known as Brady vs. the NFL. But while Brady says he wants to play for several more years, he’s currently signed through 2019, and the current CBA won’t expire until 2021, so he may not be an active player when the time comes for players to dig in for a fight.

Brady said ending his legal fight and accepting the four-game suspension was “a personal decision” and he thanked the NFL Players Association for the work it did on his behalf and continues to do for players.

The 39-year old didn’t really answer when Gray asked Brady if he believes he was treated unfairly by Goodell and the NFL, saying he prefers not to look back at this point.

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“When you deal with something for as long as I did, I think the only thing I chose to do — before training camp when I decided to move forward was to try and put it in the past. It was something I dealt with. It was something that the NFLPA dealt with on my behalf,” Brady said. “Like I said, I had so much great support from my team, Mr. [Robert] Kraft, Jonathan [Kraft], the Patriots, my coaches, my teammates. I owe my teammates to be the best that I can be and to have this divided attention that I had at different points last year was something that really didn’t serve me. I just tried to move forward and to fully focus on what my job is and that is to be the best quarterback that I can be for the team and I’ll have the chance to do it when I am back in October.”

Brady did say that during his first week away from the facility he was enjoying driving his children to school, something he won’t be able to do once he re-joins the Patriots.