Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is in the middle of trying to get a long-term extension done with the team which gave him a perfect opportunity to talk about some of the things he thinks need to be changed in the NFL.

Rodgers is also a minority owner of the Milwaukee Bucks and he thinks that the NFL needs to adopt the NBA rules in terms of the salary cap. Right now the NFL has a hard salary cap that teams are not allowed to surpass. In the NBA teams are allowed to pass the salary cap if teams are willing to pay a luxury tax for going above the cap and that is something Rodgers thinks that the NFL needs to adapt.

“We have sort of a tough situation,” Rodgers told Kevin Clark of The Ringer. “I think one thing you could definitely look at that would influence the way contracts are done is a hard cap versus a non-hard cap—like the NBA, where there’s a cap, then there’s luxury tax. . . .

“I would allow teams to go over the cap knowing if they do, since there’s not a hard cap, they are going to be faced with some luxury tax issues and they’d change their strategy. It’s not like we’re hurting—just like the NBA, we’re not hurting for revenue. We’re doing excellent in the NFL and the NBA is doing fantastic as well.”

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One other thing that Rodgers would like to see changed is the franchise tag because it really restricts players movement and gives the team all of the control.

It would be hard to imagine NFL teams giving up the franchise tag but maybe sometime soon the NFL will adopt a policy like the NBA installing a luxury tax.