obviously we will need to know the details. Other details I found important from the article
The investigation focuses on the league's corporate offices, not specific teams or players.
<snip>
One former NFL executive, Theresa Locklear, who held the position of director of business intelligence and optimization, told the Times that after the Rice video became public, managers were told to speak to their staffs about the video and the league's response to it.
Locklear said that when she met with her team, a male employee, Aaron Jones, argued that Rice's fiancée was partly at fault because she had egged Rice on, and other men on the call seemed to agree.
Jones told the Times that he had never spoken to Locklear about Rice and would never have argued that a woman was to blame for her assault.