The tush push has survived. For now.
An NFL house owners vote on a proposal to ban the controversial play made well-known by the Eagles did not get the 75 % required (24 of 32 house owners) for it to move on Wednesday, in line with a number of studies.
No less than 9 and presumably 10 groups voted in opposition to banning the tush push, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported.
Inexperienced Bay first proposed the rule change in April, however tabled a vote after they didn’t have sufficient assist for the ban.
They modified the language for it to imitate the rule that was in place earlier than 2005.
The impact of the rule as famous by NFL Community shall be that it “Prohibits an offensive player from pushing, pulling, lifting or assisting the runner except by individually blocking opponents for him.”
Breaking the rule will lead to a 10-yard penalty.
The Eagles had perfected the play thanks partly to the facility of quarterback Jalen Hurts, who has confirmed practically unstoppable in short-yardage conditions with the assistance of different gamers pushing him ahead.
Packers president Mark Murphy wrote a scathing rebuke of the tush push in a Q&A printed on the Packers’ web site.
“There is no skill involved and it is almost an automatic first down on plays of a yard or less,” he wrote. “The play is bad for the game, and we should go back to prohibiting the push of the runner. This would bring back the traditional QB sneak. That worked pretty well for Bart Starr and the Packers in the Ice Bowl.”
Whereas there was loads of deal with it, ESPN Analysis discovered that the tush push was utilized in solely 0.28 % of whole performs final yr, with Philadelphia and Buffalo utilizing it essentially the most.
The Payments and Eagles had run the play a complete of 163 instances final season, with Philly changing on 90 % of its short-yardage conditions.
“You know how I feel about it,” Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni stated on Tuesday forward of the vote, in line with the Delaware Information Journal. “We were at the owners’ meetings, and we talked about how we felt about it. I don’t think anyone can question what my sentiment is, so we’ll see what happens.”
Eagles’ CEO Jeffrey Lurie had criticized the concept of banning the tush push again in April.
He advised reporters again then that he didn’t “remember a play being banned because a single team or a few teams were running it effectively.”
“It’s part of what I think most of us love about football is that it’s a chess match. Let the chess match play out. And if for any reason it does get banned, we’ll try to be the very best at short-yardage situations. We’ve got a lot of ideas there,” he stated on the time.
