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It all falls back to Law of Shop and prior precedent.Here's the relevant part of the standard player contract (the parts in bold are bolded by me):
It is certainly not impossible that CA2 will consider deflating footballs after checkin to be "conduct reasonably judged...to be detrimental". If CA2 takes that position, then the whole notice thing goes POOF because there's no way to claim a provision in the player's own contract failed to give him notice that a suspension was a possible penalty.
Nothing gives Goodell/NFL* the ability to make up any punishment that falls out of line with prior cases. Goodell would have far more freedom of power if it was to be something that was very different than anything ever and that's JUST NOT THE CASE here.