Momentum Is Growing To Finally Ban The Tush Push Because The NFL Is Filled With Cowards Who Are Tired Of Getting Their Asses Kicked By The Eagles
Icon Sportswire. Getty Images.ESPN -- The Green Bay Packers' proposal to ban the push sneak, popularly known as the tush push, has support within the competition committee, a source with direct knowledge told ESPN on Sunday.
Another source with direct knowledge of competition committee thinking said the proposal would be "hotly contested" among the coaches, general managers and owners as they gather for league meetings this week. The league office staff presented the rules proposals during the football operations meeting Sunday afternoon, and two sources in the meeting described the back and forth as "heated" regarding the proposal 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."
For so many years, we've heard that the NFL is a copy cat league. And in just 3 short years, the Philadelphia Eagles have completely debunked that. The NFL is only a copy cat league when the rest of the teams in the league are capable of copying something. When the other teams suck and they can't figure out how to do it? They just run to their mommy and try to get that play or formation banned.
It's funny how as soon as the Eagles win another Super Bowl, all of a sudden the movement to ban the Tush Push starts to gain a bunch of support. The Eagles started running the play in 2022, but the league didn't want to ban it because teams wanted to have some more time to figure out if they could use the play to their advantage. Nobody else really figured it out, but the Eagles were such a disaster at the end of 2023 that the play wasn't on anybody's radar anymore.
But now that they continue to out-work, out-smart, and out-man every team in the league to pick up 1-yard at a time and it helped them capture the organization's 2nd Lombardi Trophy? Well now teams have had enough time to figure out that they can't figure it out, and they want it out of here. Funny how that works.
And it's going to be even funnier if the ban goes through, and the Eagles continue to dominant on 3rd & 1 and 4th & 1 situations next years. Because in all honesty, I don't think the Eagles have ever actually needed the "push" aspect of the tush push. The Tush Push has never been about the actual push. It's been about a group of 11 dudes all buying in and selling out for 1-yard. About putting their personal ego aside and fully believing that single yard is about to be the biggest yard of the entire game. You can't teach that.
They spend a ridiculous amount of time working on it at practice. They spend a ridiculous amount of time preparing for it in the weight room. They put in the man hours, they have the mindset to win a matchup, and they execute. The "push" aspect of it is all placebo at that point. The Eagles offensive line does the damage, Jalen Hurts crosses the finish line, and the pushers are practically just for show and intimidation. So until they ban the mindset of one group of dudes simply wanting to impose their will on another, the Eagles will continue to pick up that 1-yard damn near every time. Whether Saquon and Goedert are pushing Jalen Hurts' ass or not.