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Goodell says that before Monday the evidence against Ray was rice "ambiguous":
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/09/10/goodell-says-evidence-was-ambiguous-before-video-emerged/
If so, it was only ambiguous because the league found it convenient to let it be so - to allow Rice's fiancee to claim partial responsibility for the incident and Rice's lawyer to float "hypothetical" scenarios without requesting the evidence that would definitively these "ambiguities".
It was convenient for the NFL to overlook the evidence and give Rice a slap on the wrist. Now it's expedient for them to do damage control and throw him under the bus, regardless of the CBA rules.
Maybe Goodell meant "ambidextrous." And he thought it was "bad" only if RR hit her with a left/right combination.