The treatment of Josh Brown by the NFL and the New York Giants has been perplexing at best. The Giants knew Brown abused his wife and still decided to re-sign him. The NFL only suspended Brown one game, a mystifying number given the circumstances.

Brown isn't with the Giants in London for Sunday's matchup against the Rams and he's on the commissioner's exempt list, but Ben McAdoo, speaking from London, said the Giants plan to stand behind Brown and support him.

It's rather remarkable behavior towards a guy with a lengthy history of domestic violence. And, as former Ravens fullback Vonta Leach noticed, it is in stark contrast to the way Ray Rice has been treated by the league:

My thoughts on Josh Brown vs. Ray Rice's domestic violence case: Both of them were wrong for putting their hands on women. Rice has always told the truth about what happened and has owned up to his mistake. He has been going around speaking out against domestic violence. Brown has been abusing his wife for years and it's documented. How can he still have a job with the NFL and Rice is blackballed from the league? Two similar situations and two different outcomes.

It's not like this is a positional thing -- Rice is a more valuable player even at his age than Brown, as a kicker, is.

There was video of Rice striking his then-fiancee -- now wife -- Janay Rice in an elevator. Video of incidents like this carry an impossible amount of weight in terms of how the public perceives these situations. But there's also plenty of evidence against Brown, including his own admission of abusing his wife to both the Giants and to journals that were revealed in police records.

The fact that Brown is being kept close to the team while Rice is essentially boycotted from the league is a questionable juxtaposition.