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According to NFL Network and the Washington
Post, league executive Troy Vincent said Monday that a team
submitted a proposal to ban the play, a modified quarterback
sneak where two teammates behind Jalen Hurts push him forward to
help him try to gain the yardage necessary for a first down or
touchdown. Vincent didn't identify the team.
NFL owners could vote on the proposal when they meet next month
in Florida.
The tush push has become synonymous with the Eagles. Perhaps no
example summed up how much the play can be a challenge for
Eagles opponents quite like when Philadelphia used it against
Washington in the NFC championship game. The Commanders jumped
offside four times in a sequence of five plays while trying to
stop the tush push — earning them a warning from the referee
that he could award the Eagles a touchdown if the Commanders did
it again.
Green Bay Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy called the tush
push "bad for the game" in a message posted on the team's
website after the Packers were eliminated by the Eagles in the
playoffs.
“There is no skill involved and it is almost an automatic first
down on plays of a yard or less,” Murphy wrote. “I would like to
see the league prohibit pushing or aiding the run.”
Bills coach Sean McDermott, a member of the competition
committee, on Monday mentioned player safety concerns — even
though Buffalo has used a version of the play.
“The way that the techniques that are used with the play, to me,
have been potentially contrary to the health and safety of the
players,” McDermott said at the NFL scouting combine. “You have
to go back through, in fairness, to the injury data on the play,
but I just think the optics of it I’m not in love with.”
McDermott didn’t say whether he favored a rule change. Although
the Bills were mostly successful when they used the tush push in
short-yardage situations last season, quarterback Josh Allen was
stopped for no gain on fourth-and-1 early in the fourth quarter
of a 32-29 loss to Kansas City in the AFC championship game.
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