NFL brushes off Fox’s pressure campaign as “a little bit odd”

The immediate signal is that the NFL is now publicly acknowledging the Fox-related reporting instead of leaving it unaddressed. That matters because the dispute sits around antitrust scrutiny, not around a schedule or rights deal, so the stakes are regulatory rather than editorial. For the broader media ecosystem, the exchange highlights friction between a major sports rights holder and a broadcaster that is still tied to broadcast TV. The next concrete thing to watch is whether the federal antitrust attention on the NFL produces any additional public statements from either Fox or the league.