Eyebrows were raised throughout the sports world when Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria recently acknowledged that the outlet could look to land one of the Sunday afternoon NFL broadcast packages once the league can opt out of existing deals after the 2029 season.

After streaming its first NFL games on Christmas, Netflix will be seeking a much bigger piece of the pie in the league's next media deal.

Netflix gave an otherwise slow week of NFL news a kick in the tuchus, thanks to podcast-interview comments from its chief content office Bela Bajaria.