The Philadelphia Eagles made their special form of quarterback sneak, the Tush Push, their trademark in the NFL. But now a team is trying to ban the play.
On Monday, Troy Vincent, the Executive Vice President of Football Operations of the NFL, announced in conversation with reporters on the sidelines of the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis that a team made the application at the Competition Committee to ban Tush Push. However, he did not name the team by name.
“We have a proposal to change the game with regard to the ‘Tush Push’,” said Vincent, according to the “Washington Post”. “As you have called it, it is the ‘Tush Push’. … It is on our agenda. The club’s proposal is: ‘We have to make some adjustments. Is that a feasible football game train?'”
However, later, however, seeped through that the applicant was the Green Bay Packers. Those had lost their first season game against the Eagles in Brazil in September 2024 and the Wild Card Game this January. In both games, they were powerless against said play, even if none led to the touchdown.
Only Eagles and Bills master Tush Push
The play has already been examined by the NFL and the Competition Committee in the past, but measures were not taken.
Only two teams used this play really effectively in the past three NFL season – the Eagles and Bills. According to “ESPN Research”, the Eagles and Bills played the Play 163 times in the period and thus more often than the other 30 teams as a whole. Both have achieved touchdowns in 87 percent of their goal-line tests. The rest of the league did only in 71 percent of their such snaps.
However, both teams had different results with the play in the playoffs. While the Bills failed several times in the AFC Championship Game against the Chiefs, Eagles-QB Jalen Hurts also achieved the first touchdown in Super Bowl Lix against KC.
A decision about the fate of Tush Push, however, is at the League Meeting in Palm Beach/Florida at the earliest at the end of March (March 31 to April 2). Then the team owners could vote on it. However, a three -quarter majority (24 out of 32 votes) requires any change change.