NFL Rumors: Ozzie Newsome, Dick Cass To Testify At Ray Rice Hearing
By Cory Buck
Baltimore Ravens GM Ozzie Newsome and President Dick Cass will be required to testify at Ray Rice’s hearing to appeal his indefinite suspension.
Just days after news leaked that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, among others, would be required to testify at Ray Rice’s hearing to appeal the league’s decision to indefinitely ban him and the Baltimore Ravens’ decision to cut him, it’s now being reported that Ravens GM Ozzie Newsome and Ravens president Dick Cass will also be required to testify, per Pro Football Talk.
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The big thing Rice and his representatives need to prove is that Goodell, Newsome, Cass, and anyone else with a say in Rice’s punishment and fallout either deliberately avoided the full video of Rice hitting his then-fiancee or that they somehow knew the extent of Rice’s act before they punished Rice with a piddling two-week suspension.
If Ray Rice can prove that the league and the team knew what Rice did when they punished him the first time, Rice can contend that he can’t be punished twice for the same crime. This would reverse the punishment and at the very least give Rice his pay back for the 2014 season.
Goodell and Newsome and the rest of the gang will try their hardest to prove that they had no knowledge of the extent of Rice’s indiscretion. This group is on shaky footing as many people have pointed out that this team and the league shouldn’t have even needed a videotape to cut Rice and suspend him indefinitely the way they did only after video of Rice in the elevator emerged.
At the very least, this hearing should finally provide those present an opportunity to hear the full story from the investigators and disciplinarians who confounded the public with their handling of the Ray Rice fiasco.
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