I just don't know how they cut the suspension. Don't they either need to adhere to it or eliminate it?
I'm just trying to think of a path to, say, three or four games. You can't say, "well, now we have more doubts than we did whether he beat her, so since we can't be sure, it's three games." As I understand his defense, it is "I didn't do it." Not, "I did it, but it's not as bad as you make it sound." Or "I did it, but I was abused myself as a child, and I'm working on it, and I have done X, Y, and Z to make the world a better place and I will work tirelessly to reduce domestic violence."
What mitigation can there be in a he-said/she-said, binary defense? The only way a sensible reduction could make sense is if they NFL concludes there is too much doubt about whether he did it, but imposes discipline based on some incidental conduct, like cooperating with the investigation or something.
I suppose, since public reaction is their only guide, they can really do whatever they want. I guess they could simply say, "well, we heard the evidence and have decided four games is more appropriate" and leave it at that, in which case, I'd love to write Florio's "beating women is the same as deflating footballs" column for him.