NFL Allowing Antonio Brown to Play After Screwing Over Ezekiel Elliott is Hypocrisy at its Finest

Roger Goodell remains as consistently inconsistent as ever, given how the league's brainstrust has reacted to the Antonio Brown news.

The NFL decided not to suspend the New England Patriots wide receiver's activity just yet, keeping him off the commissioner's exempt list, though he's been accused of raping and sexually assaulting a former personal trainer. In the NFL's mind, due to the fact that Brown is only facing a civil lawsuit and not a criminal case, there's no need for them to act yet.

If that's the stance they want to take, then fair enough. However, when you look at how they handled Ezekiel Elliott, this doesn't look as justifiable as it first did.

The league suspended the Dallas Cowboys running back for six games despite the fact that he was never charged with a crime. While any sort of violence or lewd behavior against women is horrific and should not be tolerated, the NFL's punishment for these varying actions seems to be made up on the fly. Elliott was accused, Elliott was suspended. Brown was accused, Brown is free to fly?

In Brown, the league has another superstar who has been named in a lawsuit as the perpetrator of sexual assault, but they remain sitting on their hands and doing nothing.

No one would have a problem with the NFL if they just took a hardline stance and made the punishment uniform for everyone, rather than look at it on a case-by-case basis. Cowboys fans have every right to be up in arms over the lack of punishment Brown has received thus far.