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Packers submit revised proposal to ban tush push play ahead of Spring League Meeting - NFL.com
On the eve of the Spring League Meeting, an alteration has been introduced to one of the most anticipated decisions on a potential rule change. A revised proposal to ban the tush push play has been submitted by the Green Bay Packers, the NFL announced Monday. A discussion and potential vote on the fate of the tush push is expected this week after it was tabled during the Annual League Meeting on April 1. In the updated proposal, pushing or pulling a runner “in any direction at any time” or lifting him to his feet would be banned, which offers a broader stance harkening back to the ruleset from the league’s start through 2005, as noted by NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero. Therefore, if passed, the tush push would be banned along with any play in which a runner is pushed, pulled or lifted. Hence the proposal is now purposed as banning “assisting the runner.”
Packers revise tush-push proposal to ban all pushing of the runner - PFT
Here’s what will happen if this passes. First, although there may be an early effort to police downfield pushing early in the 2025 season at the direction of 345 Park Avenue, officials will go back to not calling a foul for assisting the runner. (It last happened in the 1991 playoffs, with a flag thrown against Tim Grunhard in a game between the Chiefs and Bills.) Second, the Eagles will still run a largely unstoppable quarterback sneak without the pushing of the tush. But, hey, the powers-that-be (possibly starting with the guys whose autograph is on every football) don’t like the tush push. It doesn’t look like football. It poses a safety risk, despite all evidence to the contrary. So it will be gone. It will create a horrible precedent. The league is coming up with phony reasons for banning a play that someone doesn’t like. And it raises an obvious question: What’s next? The lesson to all teams is simple. Keep on innovating. But beware. If you come up with something so good that it can’t be copied, they’ll find a way to stop you from doing it.
NFL owners to vote on 2 rule changes and 1 important resolution at spring meeting - SB Nation
The Packers’ justification for the rule change is “player safety” and “pace of play.” Banning the play came close to being passed at the winter meetings, but some members of the competition committee voiced concerns that the previous verbiage was too explicit in singling out one or two teams who use the play — and they’re obviously referring to the Eagles and Bills, the two teams who use the play the most. Indications point to this revised wording passing on the second attempt. It will have a profound effect on the Philadelphia offense specifically,...
