IRVING, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones, one o the NFL's most powerful figures, is expressing his support of embattled NFL commissioner Roger Goodell despite what Jones concedes is a "mishandling'' the Ray Rice case.
"He's been a very good commissioner," Jones said Friday on 105.3 The Fan. "He's acknowledged that he's mishandled this, and he's said that he'll do better in the future. He can and I believe he will."
Jones also says he believes Goodell's claim that he had not viewed a disturbing video tape that shows Ravens star Rice punching his then-fiancee, now-wife in the elevator of an Atlantic City casino in February. Goodell suspended Rice for just two games but since the release of the incriminating video has suspended the player indefinitely.
"He said he did not and I believe him," Jones told "G-Bag Nation,'' adding that he does not anticipate the commissioner being disciplined. "But the good news (is) we've opened up a real investigation, unfettered investigation, and I think we need to let that show us the results and let it unfold."
The league has hired former FBI chief Robert Mueller III to lead an investigation of the Rice matter and Goodell's handling of it.
