Tush push debate rages at NFL's annual meeting

The hotly-debated tush propulsion was the taxable du jor among NFL coaches astatine the yearly league gathering connected Monday arsenic caller reports surfaced implicit the effort to prohibition the play from use.

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

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Philadelphia Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts, #1, scores a touchdown connected a tush propulsion during Super Bowl LIX betwixt the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs connected Feb. 9, 2025 astatine the Superdome successful New Orleans. (Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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 violates the rule.

League unit presented the regularisation proposals during a shot operations gathering connected Sunday, and the contented of the Packers’ connection sparked a "heated" discussion, ESPN reported. Packers wide manager Brian Gutekunst and caput manager Matt LaFleur some declined to speech astir it with ESPN.

However, it did not halt different coaches from discussing it erstwhile the gathering got into afloat cogwheel connected Monday.

Pittsburgh Steelers caput manager Mike Tomlin said helium was "open-minded" astir getting escaped of the tush push.

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Philadelphia Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts, #1, prepares the tush propulsion during the crippled betwixt the Philadelphia Eagles and the Atlanta Falcons connected Sept. 15, 2024 astatine Lincoln Financial Field successful Philadelphia. (Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"The archetypal clip I saw it, I couldn’t judge that it was ineligible due to the fact that it was amerciable connected the tract goal," helium said, via The Athletic. "That being said, you hatred to beryllium against it, due to the fact that erstwhile radical are innovative, you privation to respect that. 

"There’s surely been immoderate teams that person been much innovative than the remainder of america … We hatred to penalize them for it. But we got into the treatment connected the tract extremity artifact due to the fact that of subordinate information and truthful that inactive remains to beryllium a constituent of the discussion."

Kansas City Chiefs caput manager Andy Reid and Buffalo Bills caput manager Sean McDermott besides mentioned the conception of information erstwhile it came to the anticipation of banning the play, according to Pro Football Talk.

A root disputed the information facet successful an interrogation with ESPN.

"It's not astir subordinate safety. It's conscionable a antithetic play and it conscionable looks different," the root said.

The furor astir the tush propulsion escalated during the Eagles’ NFC Championship triumph implicit the Washington Commanders.

Commanders players attempted to leap offsides to effort to halt the play from the extremity line. However, the changeless offsides penalties resulted successful a informing from NFL officials, who said the Eagles could person been awarded a people if Washington kept committing the penalty.

Philadelphia Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts, #1, scores connected the tush propulsion during the crippled betwixt the San Francisco 49ers and the Philadelphia Eagles connected Dec. 3, 2023 astatine Lincoln Financial Field. (Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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ESPN reported that the push-sneak play was lone utilized little than 0.28% of the time.

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