Roger Goodell wants us to think this angry, unapologetic, gun-toting jerk is the reason pro football is, on occasion, violent and unsafe. But the uneasy reality is that James Harrison doesn’t make the NFL dangerous. Football makes the NFL dangerous. And it’s dangerous on every play, not just those infrequent instances when Harrison gives some quarterback’s brain a bumper-car ride around his skull.

Is the Nate Jackson article in the Deadspin NFL roundtable they do. Nate was a former player and he defends Harrison’s hit saying that it happens so fast out there— and you’re just trying to hit the guy. It’s futile trying to make the players change.