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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1124545, member: 40"]
I'm all for Goodell taking into account that Ray Rice hadn't been in legal trouble before, had no apparent history of crime / violence, etc.  That's exactly how the system should work for first time offenders.
 
But I have a difficult time imagining that he saw that video when handing down his token suspension.  Because if so, then the commish's got some 'splainin' to do.
 
I honestly believe that Goodell did a cursory review of the situation, factoring in that Rice hasn't been in trouble before in his decision to go relatively lenient on him.  And in doing so, he misjudged [1] the brutal nature of the assault, with a woman getting sucker punched in the jaw by a professional athlete built like a brick sh-thouse, and [2] the sustained public backlash he, the league, and Rice would receive for said lenient punishment.  Because if Goodell had actually seen that video and still decided that a slap on the wrist would make everybody whole, then he's either a dullard [which he obviously isn't] or completely out of touch.  I just find it difficult to believe that he had this video at his disposal, considered the preponderence of evidence at his disposal, and still came to the conclusion that, yeah--two games is sufficient.  It doesn't even seem reasonable to me that the opposite might be true--I don't know, maybe I'm giving him too much credit.
 
For the record, I'm not a Goodell fan and certainly not an apologist for him or the league.  He is annoying in a lot of ways, and I started disliking him a few years ago for the imbalanced way the league handled the New Orleans scandal, including going after several players on little more than hearsay / conjecture [and at least two of those players seem like they may have been unfairly targeted].
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