There are no IFS, and butts about it: the driving force for banning “Tush -Push” has become a pain in the back of the NFL.
Green Bay Packers, whose season 2024 was booked by losses to Philadelphia Eagles, has made headlines through lobbying for a rule change to punish the controversial game – a move that would most affect … Philadelphia Eagles.
Cries of “sour grapes!” was heard from Liberty Bell all the way to Florida, where arguments on the subject reportedly were heated last week when the two sides supported heads at the NFL’s annual owner meetings.
The league finally decided to add Packer’s proposal before an official vote. A rule change requires support from 75 percent of the owners, or 24 votes, and the camps were reportedly divided into the middle 16-16.
Although Tush-Push-Tras that Rugby-Scrum meets QB-Myg, if you have been under a stone or on a dark-rim with a four-o’clock MVP end of just 0.28 percent of the total players in NFL 2024, and although the Super Bowl champion Eagles and Buffalo Bills were the only teams for the only team for the only team for the only.
Some critics claim, albeit without concrete evidence, that the paragraph has an increased risk of injury with so much mass that applies so much power in so little space. Others are offended by aesthetics, because even a Philly fan (after a few yuengling layers, perhaps) would have to admit that the tush push is butt-full.
Another argument that addresses the rear is that it is already opposed to the rules for defensive players to run their own Linemen from behind during kick games, although it is largely because the long snapper is a defenseless and vulnerable player.
“We do not allow the linebacks to drive the defensive linear at extra points and we are just trying to be consistent,” said Dallas Cowboy’s co -owner Stephen Jones, a member of the NFL competition committee.
“… Green Bay really noticed something that we felt we really had to be controlled in the meeting room and among the owners and see where we get out on it.”
Proponents of the Tush Push, alternately designed as “brotherly shove” in the city of brotherly love, resist that the piece is actually safer than a traditional sneak, where a quarterback has less protection from teammates.
“We have been very open to all the data available on Tush -Push and there just haven’t been any data showing that it is not a very, very safe game,” said the Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie. “If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t press the Tush Pus
Several supporters to keep the piece legally point out the potential injustice in punishing Philadelphia to create and carefully practice a game that still works – even when everyone at the stadium and watching at home knows what is coming.
“I’m from school that they found something and it’s up to everyone else to stop it. So I’m a hard yes,” said Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell.
“Eagles just trains it better than the rest of us,” Carolina Panther’s head coach Dave Canales added.
NFL never wants to be the butt for jokes on late evening TV. Commissioner Roger Goodell said he supports Green Bay’s plan to broaden the proposal to remove all drivers and pull off players.
“It is very meaningful in many ways because it expands it beyond the only game,” he said. “There are many games where you see people run or pull someone who is not in the Tush -Push formation that I think has an increased risk of injury. So I think the Committee will look at it and come back … with some suggestions.”
To push or not press. Cheeseheads counter cheesesteaks. The debate is not over. It will nurture its ugly head again at the league meetings on May 20-21 in Minneapolis.
