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Things just keep getting worse for Greg Hardy and the NFL.

The Dallas Cowboys defensive end spent nearly the entire 2014 season off the football field and on the Commissioner's Exempt List allegedly for assaulting his then-girlfriend. Hardy later was acquitted of charges after his accuser dropped them, and in March, 2015, Hardy met with NFL officials to determine the status of his reinstatement to the league.

That meeting was confidential, but Deadspin claims to have acquired a 126-page transcript of the meeting which, depending on whose side you're on, makes a lot of people look very bad.

Hardy and his legal team were allowed to give their version of the story to the NFL, which apparently was not allowed in court. The four main arguments were as follows:

-- Hardy's accuser, ex-girlfriend Nicole Holder, tripped and fell into the bathtub, which is how she obtained her excessive bruises and injuries.

-- Holder was essentially slut-shamed in the meeting and her sexual tendencies were described in detail -- including details of Holder offering sexual favors to Hardy repeatedly both before the incident and again after to "make up" for things. Hardy claimed he refused to have sex with Holder the night of the incident which led to her going "berserk."

-- Hardy called 911 because he didn't want Holder "to kill herself" in his apartment. Police were outside Hardy's apartment when Holder ran out, but she allegedly ran away from the officers when she saw them and had to be asked several times by the officers to stop. By law, this implied a guilty conscience, Hardy's team said. Holder also claimed to have "excruciating" pain in her left elbow, but was seen on camera gesturing with her left arm and holding her purse. Hardy's team did not bring that video evidence, recorded from the responding officers' squad car, to the meeting. They also questioned the validity of the medical examiner's report.

-- Finally, Hardy's team identified Mecklenburg District Judge Rebecca Thorne Tin, who convicted Hardy of assault, as uniquely biased against him because she co-chaired the Harvard Battered Women's Advocacy Project while she was in law school.

The NFL never really delved deeply into their line of questioning and didn't try to poke many holes in the argument. As a result of the meeting, Hardy was reinstated and later handed a 10-game suspension that was eventually knocked down to four games by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's hand-picked arbitrator.

It's a bad look for both sides. Holder is painted as a "money-hungry sex monster," as Deadspin summarizes, and the NFL looks like they just don't care enough to ask any questions.

You can read the entire transcript below.

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