Ed Rendell, who just a few days ago said that Roger Goodell should resign if he saw the Ray Rice elevator video before suspending him for two games, had some more to say on the Jon and Sean Show on the Fanatic (audio available at link) today. Rendell did some name-dropping:

“My former state police commissioner, Jeff Miller, is the head of NFL security. And I guarantee you, I would be stunned knowing Jeff Miller, and I worked with him for several years, that Jeff Miller didn’t see the tape. And didn’t say to other NFL executives and the commissioner ‘hey guys, this isn’t just a husband and wife pushing each other, this is real bad stuff … Can you believe that they got the tape in April – that the head of security wouldn’t have watched the tape? And I guarantee you Jeff Miller, as he did when I was Governor, would report that directly to the boss. Not to anybody else. But directly to the boss.”

Goodell’s story has changed a bit since this all came out, which could be due to Goodell not having all of the information. That seems a lot less likely than Rendell’s theory:

“It’s not just messing up. He lied. He lied to the public. And the NFL should not be lying to the public in any regard. He lied about not receiving the tape. He lied about not looking at the tape. He lied.”

But there’s an investigation looming, right? They’re bringing an FBI guy in to look into the claims that the NFL had (and watched) the video. That’ll turn up the truth, right?

“That’s the oldest trick in the book – I actually used it when I was Governor too – you call for an investigation knowing that the investigation will take even a month or two or three months, and by then things will have died down. I think we know enough about what happened, and there’s no scenario that you can come up with that’s good for the Commissioner. There’s no scenario that’s good. Either it’s incompetence or lying or a mixture of both.”

Rendell is on fire (and fired up) about the whole thing, which is a reasonable response. Something tells me though — once a politician, always a politician — Rendell wouldn’t exactly turn down Goodell’s job were Goodell not to have it anymore.