Posted on 05/21/2025 10:59:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
Even the most powerful figures in the NFL were unable to stop the tush push.
A proposed ban of the tush push play that the Philadelphia Eagles have popularized did not receive enough votes at the spring meeting Wednesday in Eagan, Minnesota.
Before the vote, retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce and team owner Jeffrey Lurie spoke to the owners to lobby for the merits of keeping the play.
Sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter that the final vote was 22-10 on the proposal, which was submitted by the Green Bay Packers. The proposal needed 24 votes to pass.
Among the teams to support the Eagles with their vote were the Baltimore Ravens, New England Patriots, New York Jets and Detroit Lions, sources told Schefter.
The Eagles celebrated the result, writing "Push On" overlayed on an image of their team lined up for the tush push against the Packers in a post to X on Wednesday. The Eagles and Packers will face each other in a "Monday Night Football" game in Week 10 this season.
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As a former very serious football player, the “tush push” always struck me as a great way to injure your own quarterback.
At the end of the year (in the playoffs maybe) Allen tried it twice and looked like a fool both times. It got stuffed both times, naturally. If he really opposes it now then I have to assume since he ran the play himself his objection isn't on any basis other than he can't do it.
But if we ban plays just because one team is really good at it because they have the perfect players for it, then nobody can have a team with a kicker than can routinely hit 60 yeard field goals, Mahomes has to be banned from those no-look passes, Dak Prescott has to be banned from choking in the playoffs, the list is endless.
This maneuver is also known as ‘The Scrum’ in european football/rugby. Why would they ban that integral type of play from the sport.
Baseball lowered the mound and brought in the DH 40-50 years ago and that’s pretty much it.
NFL owners. They meet every year to discuss rule changes. Shows you how the ‘let’s make the rules as we go along’ works. Soon to be 18 game seasons. Expanded playoffs and easily replaceable players as the injuries mount.
Uh, he clearly gained first down yardage, but, ya know... Kansas City.
Then they had to throw the Super Bowl, because they realized everyone was onto them.
On the other hand, as an Eagles fan I think you just dismantle and dominate them in the super bowl, that works pretty well to prevent the cheap calls that win the Chiefs the game.
They got rid of that rule because it is hard to enforce. If there is a pileup of 4-5 offensive and 4-5 defensive guys surrounding the ball carrier, are the offensive guys pushing the ball carrier forward (illegal) or are they pushing the defensive guys backward (perfectly legal)?
Agreed. Plus it is probably one of the least dangerous plays. It is at close quarters so nobody is able to get up any speed during a “tush push”. That’s why plays like kickoff returns have high injury rates - guys on the kicking team are running full speed 30-40 yards downfield and colliding head on with guys from the receiving team who are doing the same. The new kickoff rules try to mitigate this by lining the players up closer together.
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Only in certain situations is grabbing a players shirt a penalty. Mainly it is when a defensive back grabs a receiver in an attemp to disrupt his route that this gets called (defensive holding). Theoretically an offensive lineman could also be called for holding if he grabs an opponent’s shirt while blocking, but holding on lineman usually only gets called when they get their arms outside of the defender’s body and wrap the defender up. Keeping the arms inside and just grabbing the shirt on the defender’s chest or abdomen will usually be let go. When tackling a ball carrier, grabbing the shirt is fine. It is only when the defender grabs the ball carrier at the back of the neck by the top of his shoulder pads that a flag is thrown - this is a horse collar tackle and is a dangerous play.
You always come up with the best appropriate gifs.
Thank you.
Good imho.
Anyone can do this, it’s a level playing field. If you were to ban it, I’d be curious if it would muddy-the-rules with formations in general when there’s a push for 1 yard. Was it a ‘tush push’???
Thanks for confirming that it was a rule at one time because the first time I saw the tush push I was dumbfounded.
I understand what you’re saying about there being a pile of guys and you can’t differentiate in that instance, but with the tush push, you may as well have two handprints on the guy’s butt to act as guides where to push. You would think they could find a way to separate the two but it’s also a play that generates a lot of interest and that usually wins the day.
The country is about to enter a catastrophic debt cycle and morons are voting about a tush push.
There was a time when the tush push and rushing the ball were the only plays in football. Passing wasn’t even part of the game... They handed to ball to the Quarterback, who either ran with the ball, or instead, handed it off to the halfback or a running back... Throwing wasn’t even part of the game... It was all rushing and running in some form or another.
The NFL and their owners are full of it.
Another victory for the LBGT crowd, at least they could rename the play.
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