NFL teams can keep using tush push
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The Packers couldn't get enough votes to pass their Tush Push ban, and Eagles fans were ready to celebrate — and rub it in their faces. Here's how they reacted.
For cited reasons including health and safety and pace of play, a large group of teams who believe pushing has no place in football attempted to ban the tush push. Those efforts came up short, with 10 teams voting down the efforts to ban it on Wednesday.
Now that the NFL has preserved the Tush Push, here's one way for the concept to be even more deadly to opposing defenses, writes .
The Eagles, according to a post on X from ESPN’s Adam Schefter, made one final plea to keep the play in the game with the help of former center Jason Kelce. Schefter wrote that Kelce went to Minnesota to “lobby NFL owners as to why they should keep, and not ban, the Tush Push play.”
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No one will admit that it’s going away because of the optics of the play. When pressed for reasoning, the league shifts the goal posts from safety to “it’s not football” to “pace of play” to whatever else can be fashioned with a semi-straight face.