ESPN announced Wednesday that it has suspended Grantland editor and podcast host Bill Simmons for three weeks for a profane podcast tirade about NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Simmons is the second ESPN host to have been suspended in connection to the Ray Rice incident, Stephen A. Smith suspended in July for comments about domestic violence.

In a statement released Wednesday, ESPN said all of its employees must be held “accountable” if they don’t meet “journalistic standards”:

"Every employee must be accountable to ESPN and those engaged in our editorial operations must also operate within ESPN's journalistic standards. Bill Simmons did not meet those obligations in a recent podcast, and as a result we have suspended him for three weeks."

In the profanity-laced rant posted Tuesday, Simmons repeatedly accused Goodell of lying about not having seen the second Ray Rice video, which showed the player knocking out his then-fiancée in an elevator.

I just think that not enough is being made of the fact that they knew about the tape and they knew what was on it,” Simmons said. “Goodell, if he didn’t know what was on that tape, he’s a liar. I’m just saying it. He is lying. I think that dude is lying. If you put him up on a lie detector test that guy would fail. For all these people to pretend they didn’t know is such f*****g bull****. It really is — it’s such f*****g bull****. And for him to go in that press conference and pretend otherwise, I was so insulted. I really was.”

This is the thing – when you’re the leader, you’re in charge and that’s it. And you take accountability. People work for you and ultimately they represent you, and if you screwed up as an institution in some way, take accountability for it.

The best point that a lot of people have made about this is that this is exactly why he fined and suspended Sean Payton for a season. Sean Payton was like, ‘I didn’t know.’ (Goodell’s) like, ‘Well, ignorance is not a whatever,’ and suspended him for a year. This is the same exact situation, and it’s worse because he knew. And he’s a liar.

Simmons also (unwisely) challenged ESPN to discipline him for his remarks:

I really hope somebody calls me or emails me and says I’m in trouble for anything I say about Roger Goodell. Because if one person says that to me, I’m going public. You leave me alone. The commissioner’s a liar and I get to talk about that on my podcast. ... Please, call me and say I’m in trouble. I dare you.

Simmons serves as the editor of Grantland, a sports website owned by ESPN, and will be the host of ESPN's new "Grantland Basketball Show."