Jason Pierre-Paul didn’t punch out his fiancée in an elevator, or slug a young woman at a bar, the way a kid who used to play quarterback for Florida State did. Pierre-Paul didn’t take a switch to a 4-year-old boy, or shoot himself in the leg, the way Plaxico Burress did one night when he was out on the town in the big city. So Pierre-Paul isn’t Ray Rice, or Adrian Peterson or Greg Hardy or anybody else on Roger Goodell’s bad-guy list. He didn’t even let air out of footballs.
Pierre-Paul is young and immature, and now a lot explodes on him because he wanted to set off some fireworks over Fourth of July weekend.