In my eyes Goodell is embarrassing himself.
Happens. In Goodell’s eyes Tom exposed a flaw in NFL procedure the bad way, then lied about it.
I think it’s a kerfuffle over nothing. A poorly written and worse executed rule and the league should admit it’s their fault. But kerfuffles matter, bad press matters. And of course by this time next year nobody will care. Except Pats opponents, they went 18-1 last time they played angry, with a lot of huge wins that embarrassed opponents.