One NFL team is taking an embarrassing approach to stopping the Philadelphia Eagles from winning another Super Bowl
One NFL team is going well out of their way to stop the Philadelphia Eagles from winning another Super Bowl. NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent tells NFL Network's Judy Battista that an unnamed team has submitted a proposal to ban the Eagles' infamous Tush Push play. "There is a proposal from an […]
One NFL team is going well out of their way to stop the Philadelphia Eagles from winning another Super Bowl.
NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent tells NFL Network's Judy Battista that an unnamed team has submitted a proposal to ban the Eagles' infamous Tush Push play.
"There is a proposal from an unnamed team to ban the Tush Push, Troy Vincent said. We’ll see where it goes," Battista writes on X.
The Tush Push play, aka the Eagles' special version of the QB sneak, is brought up every offseason and as Battista notes in another X post, there is not enough evidence to show that it's harmful.
"Question on the Tush Push play is whether it could be modified to keep some semblance of the play intact," Battista writes. "The play is run so infrequently that there isn’t enough injury data for the league to push for a ban based on injuries alone."
The crazy part about it is that other teams are allowed to copy and paste the play if they want. And other teams certainly have tried to, but not one team has been as effective at running the play as the Eagles.
That leaves opposing teams and coaches absolutely despising the Tush Push because not only can they run it as effectively, but they also have hard time stopping it
Many even thought Jason Kelce's retirement would end it for Philly, but nothing changed as Jalen Hurts and the Eagles were successful on 28 of 34 Tush Push attempts (per NextGen) this past season en route to a Super Bowl win.
The NFL will hold it's annual league meetings on March 30 where executives may further discuss the proposal.
