An NFL team wants to ban the “Tush Push” play that fueled the success of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, according to the NFL Network and Washington Post.
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Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott wants to ban the tush push despite running a variation of the play with quarterback Josh Allen.
The Athletic previously reported that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had said he wanted the play to be banned for the 2024 season. Well, the play did not end on the banned list and the Eagles ran it just as successfully even without Jason Kelce under center en route to their Super Bowl 2025 triumph.
The polarizing play, a staple of the Eagles’ run to the Super Bowl, is virtually unstoppable on the field. At least one team wants to stop it off it.
To me there’s always been an injury risk with that play and I’ve expressed that opinion for the last couple of years or so when it really started to come into play the way it’s been used, especially a year ago,
The "tush push" is set to come under the microscope this offseason after an NFL team -- identified as the Green Bay Packers in an NFL Network report -- proposed a rule banning the play.
The Green Bay Packers are proposing an end to the tush push play the Philadelphia Eagles have used so successfully at the goal line and in short-yardage situations.
One unnamed NFL team has proposed banning the Eagles’ famed Tush Push or Brotherly Shove, according to the league’s vice president of football operations Troy
Packers president Mark Murphy has let it be known that he is very much against the play, complaining recently that it is "almost an automatic first down on plays of a yard or less" and citing the Washington Commanders' comical repeated attempts to stop the play in the NFC championship game.
NFL reporters have sniffed out a mystery team pushing to ban the short-yardage play made famous by the Eagles.
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