The Baltimore Ravens late on Friday claimed that a story by ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” about how the team and the NFL handled the Ray Rice domestic violence situation had “numerous errors, inaccuracies, false assumptions and, perhaps, misunderstandings.”

Earlier Friday, ESPN released a detailed report about how the Ravens and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell found out about the star running back’s assault on his now-wife in February.

According to the report, Goodell received an unexpected phone call the morning after Rice’s assault on fiancee Janay Palmer in a hotel elevator in Atlantic City, N.J.

Only hours after the incident, Ravens director of security, Darren Sanders, contacted an Atlantic City police officer by phone while the office watched surveillance video of the incident. He described what he saw to Sanders in detail.

Sanders quickly informed team executives of the video’s play-by-play.

ESPN interviewed more than 20 sources over 11 days, including NFL team officials, current and former league officials, NFL Players Association representatives and associates and advisers and friends of Rice. ESPN reported that it found a pattern of misinformation and misdirection fueled by the Ravens and the NFL since the incident occurred.

Ravens executives, especially owner Steve Bisciotti, president Dick Cass and general manager Ozzie Newsome, publicly and privately pushed for leniency toward Rice from the judicial system and Goodell, who initially suspended Rice just two games.

The Ravens also consulted with Rice’s Philadelphia defense attorney, Michael J. Diamondstein, who obtained a copy of the video in early April. They tried to convince Rice’s legal team to get Rice accepted into a pretrial intervention program. One of the advantages of the program was that it would prevent the video from going public.

The NFL reportedly took a passive approach toward gathering evidence against Rice. Four ESPN sources said Ravens executives, including Bisciotti, Cass and Newsome, urged Goodell and other league executives to give Rice no more than a two-game suspension.

The Ravens released a statement in response to the report.

“The ESPN.com ‘Outside the Lines’ article contains numerous errors, inaccuracies, false assumptions and, perhaps, misunderstandings,” the statement read. “The Ravens will address all of these next week in Baltimore after our trip to Cleveland for Sunday’s game against the Browns.”

The Rices and Diamondstein declined to comment.

The league recently started an independent investigation led by former FBI chief Robert S. Mueller III. It is being overseen by New York Giants owner John Mara and Pittsburgh Steelers co-owner Art Rooney II.

After the video eventually became public once it was obtained by TMZ, the NFL and the Ravens reportedly shifted gears and attempted to blame Rice for not being truthful about the incident.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello declined to comment on the ESPN report, but released a statement about the league’s investigation.

“Mr. Mueller is in the process of conducting his investigation into the pursuit and handling of evidence in the Ray Rice domestic violence incident,” Aiello said. “His report will be made public.”