The NFL Commissioner is stuck between doing the right thing, and doing what his bosses tell him.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will never be a sympathetic figure in this Deflarthyism nonsense. He has had multiple opportunities to stop the train before it went off the tracks and he has made the wrong decision at every turn. Now, he finds himself in a position that most people can empathize with.
Goodell is stuck between doing the right thing, and doing what his bosses are telling him to do.
The right thing to do would be to punt the punishment until after the upcoming season so the league can use proper reference points from the regular season games to analyze and to determine whether foul play actually happened.