Victor Cruz tells TMZ Sports ... Roger Goodell needs to shut down the idea of a 17-game season ASAP, saying, "We don't need anymore games!"
"We got enough!" Cruz says. "Sixteen is enough!"
Of course, a big part of the league's New Collective Bargaining Agreement could, in fact, include a 17 game schedule ... because owners believe it'll bring in TON of cash.
But when we got Cruz -- a former New York Giants superstar -- out in NYC on Thursday ... he told us it's not a great idea for the players to go along with that plan.