NFL reveals Packers' Tush Push ban proposal and Eagles fans are laughing
The Philadelphia Eagles are so good at running the Tush Push play that other NFL teams, such as the Green Bay Packers, want it banned forever. The Packers even went as far as submitting a proposal to the league's front office to forbid the Tush Push. Here's what the proposal hopes to eliminate, via NBC […]
The Philadelphia Eagles are so good at running the Tush Push play that other NFL teams, such as the Green Bay Packers, want it banned forever.
The Packers even went as far as submitting a proposal to the league's front office to forbid the Tush Push.
Here's what the proposal hopes to eliminate, via NBC Sports Dave Zangaro:
"To prohibit an offensive player from pushing a teammate who was lined up directly behind the snapper and receives the snap, immediately at the snap."
The Packers' reasoning behind the Tush Push ban is for, "Player safety and pace of play."
Why this proposal is so funny to many fans is because there have been zero findings on injuries occuring during the Tush Push. It's also a play that teams typically run, simply because they're not as good at it.
It's a different story for the Eagles, who ran the Tush Push 43 times and were successful on 39 of those attempts (81.3%) when converting the play into a first down or touchdown this past season.
Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni argued at the NFL combine that his team has worked very hard at perfecting the Tush Push and how insulting it is that other teams, who have trouble running the play, believe it should be banned.
"I can't tell you how many times we've practiced the snap, we've practiced the play — it's not a play that's easy to practice, so there's different ways we've figured out how to practice it — the complements that come off of it that can create explosive plays," Sirianni said at the NFL Combine. "The fact that it's [portrayed] as an automatic thing, we work really hard, and our guys are talented at this play, and so it's a little insulting to say we're good at it so it's automatic. We work really hard at it."
As Zangaro noted, it would take 24 of 32 team votes to change the rule.
Good luck with that.
