Did the NFL respond appropriately to the Ray Rice incident? NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has said the league didn’t see the infamous elevator video before this week. The NFL has come under fire for initially only suspending Rice for two games, before a longer version of the video surfaced showing the player punching his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer in the face. Drexel University’s athletic director and professor of neuropsychology, Dr. Eric Zilmmer, offers insight what the incident will mean for holding athletes involved in physical attacks on women more accountable moving forward.
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