Is the NFL dragging its feet with the Ezekiel Elliott domestic violence investigation because it’s the Cowboys? Some NFL owners think so, according to Bleacher Report.

While Roger Goodell and the league close in on a decision after the case was first brought to light a year ago, NFL owners reportedly have contacted Goodell and have told him he’s being “too soft on the Cowboys” because of the power owner Jerry Jones wields.

The pressure on Goodell to come down and hand the proper punishment (if there is one in the NFL) is very real. Some teams, Bleacher Report says, feel if it wasn’t for Jones’ influence within the NFL, Elliott’s punishment would have been handed down months ago.

Last year, a 20-year-old woman told police Elliott assaulted her in Columbus, Ohio, TMZ reported. Self-identified as Elliott’s then girlfriend, she said he attacked her while they were in a car. According to ESPN, Elliott is facing a short suspension — one or two games — because police never charged or arrested him, citing “conflicting and inconsistent information.”

Jones spoke at Cowboys camp on Monday about Elliott and said he believes the second-year back is innocent.

“I have reviewed everything, and there is absolutely nothing — not one thing — that had anything to do with domestic violence,” Jones said. “My opinion is there’s not even an issue over, ‘He said, she said.’ There’s not even an issue there.”

Elliott recently made more troubling headlines when the 22-year-old star was accused of breaking a man’s nose in an altercation in a Dallas bar last week. The police, citing a lack of witnesses, have suspended the investigation.