Goodell is an employee of the owners. Everything he does, or says, needs to be thought of in that light. Really, he's just a really well paid figurehead, or scapegoat, or distraction, etc.
It's about a family who works for Russian spies and their son doesn't know and he's a genius who is starting a job for the CIA and the family is afraid if he finds out then he'll turn em in. The last episode ended with him about to catch them...we'll see how it goes tonight.