Ex-NFL star fires back at attempt to ban tush push, worries it will cause 'slippery slope'

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NFL owners tabled the treatment implicit whether to efficaciously prohibition the tush propulsion until May, but the speech astir the determination was inactive blistery among players and fans successful the offseason.

Former NFL prima linebacker Anthony Barr said successful a caller interrogation that banning the play would origin a snowball effect successful the league.

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Philadelphia Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts (1) lines up for the tush propulsion play against the Kansas City Chiefs during Super Bowl LIX. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

"It’s a slippery slope," the erstwhile Minnesota Vikings linebacker told TMZ Sports. "You prohibition 1 play, past what’s next?"

The Green Bay Packers submitted a proposal that would efficaciously prohibition the play, which became celebrated acknowledgment to the Philadelphia Eagles and their occurrence with it.

The Packers' authoritative regularisation alteration connection would "prohibit an violative subordinate from pushing a teammate who was lined up straight down the snapper and receives the snap, instantly astatine the snap." The connection added that a punishment would beryllium assessed connected immoderate violative subordinate who violated the rule.

But by the extremity of the yearly meeting, the treatment implicit whether to prohibition it was postponed. Proponents of the play and those who reason it some presented beardown arguments, portion the league expressed interest astir safety.

Philadelphia Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts scores a touchdown connected a tush propulsion during Super Bowl LIX. (Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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Rich McKay, the NFL Competition Committee chair, said the issues spell beyond information due to the fact that there’s not capable information to accidental whether it’s a unsafe play. The league has said determination person been nary injuries reported implicit the tush push.