NFL Rejects Ban on Tush Push Play for Another Season

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00:00the biggest hot button topic in the national football league this week in minnesota

00:04at those owner meetings the tush push will it be banned will it survive as we learned yesterday

00:11it survives for at least another season the green bay packers proposal to ban this play falls two

00:17short uh two votes short of the necessary 24 for the super majority 22 yeses 10 no's the tush push

00:26is alive and well in the national football league so mark the natural question to you

00:31did the nfl owners in the ultimate decision get it right the short answer is yes but look remember

00:38we're here for a couple of reasons one we are here because a simple thing happened in the nfl over the

00:45course of the last 10 years every offensive coordinator who thinks that they are smarter

00:50than the world who thinks that they are just so much more innovative and bright than everybody else

00:54decided that the statistics that had shown through 2019 that if you did a qb sneak on third and one

01:01or fourth and one you converted it 88 of the time they said no that's not good enough i need to be

01:06in a five wide receiver set and shotgun when i need one yard look at this guys no one's going to expect

01:11this coming but okay just to be sneaking and let's move on so the philadelphia eagles said screw that

01:16it's only one yard we'll take the 88 we're just going to push our guy forward because when you need

01:20one yard that's only three feet and my quarterback is six feet that's twice as long okay so if i fall

01:25forward i'm good very simple stuff here we got away from the quarterback sneak as a thing and the eagles

01:32came back in and sort of revolutionized it and oh by the way the eagles won a super bowl do you really

01:37think there would have been a ban if the eagles didn't win the super bowl of course they wouldn't

01:42have pushed to ban this thing if the eagles didn't win the super bowl right and watch what happens

01:47if the eagles make a deep playoff run again this will actually pass next year i can guarantee it

01:53because all the eagles have to do is beat a team on a tush push that voted uh no we're not going to

01:59ban it and when they lose a game on it they'll go you know what maybe we should ban that because that's

02:03how this is going to go again so i i mean again i think they got it right but i keep saying they're

02:08approaching this wrong guys the easiest thing to do if you'd like to make this equitable isn't to ban

02:13the tush push it's just to allow defensive players to push each other back which is currently a foul

02:18one defensive player cannot push another defensive player it is a penalty if you allow them to push

02:22back and you could put force on force let's go back to our high school physics force equals mass

02:27times acceleration if we put equal force on each other boom uh we'll have a more equitable play

02:32but they won't do that yeah it'll be interesting too mark let me ask you this question too about the

02:37tush push like in totality for 2025 with it being approved again are other teams going to say you know

02:42what why don't we do this as well now maybe you don't do it as well but you're right about this

02:47quarterback sneaks in the past who was the best quarterback sneak guy in the history with that

02:50we thought bingo the most unathletic quarterback and he's getting first downs so if you are an

02:57organization your beat writers need to ask you will you be using this because it's legal and you can

03:02automatically get a first down listen i pressed raheem morris on this in atlanta with his fourth and one

03:09go for it philosophy and and and literally gave him those same numbers that the 88 on third and one

03:16and fourth and one and it was even broken down over 10 year periods and it was even higher i mean at

03:21certain points because the tush push has become such a thing i'm with you drs but the problem is is

03:27that like the chiefs are never going to do this because if somebody falls on patrick holmes legs and

03:31he gets hurt they'll never hear the end of it right like why you have the greatest quarterback who

03:36throws the ball you're not paying him to run why why why would he even put him in this situation

03:40you have to have a quarterback whose body physically can be can be able to handle it now again you think

03:46bill belichick cared about tom brady's body no he cared about getting the first down more so he said

03:50tommy just take the ball and fall forward i wish more coaches would do it there's no reason not to

03:54um yeah i don't know that coaches are going to return to it because again five wide receiver sets

04:00and shotgun you know or giving it to the running back who's seven yards behind the line of scrimmage

04:04when you need one yard to go forward always made a ton of sense to me like let me hand the ball seven

04:09yards backwards when all i got to do is go one yard forward it's bad coaching all around drs you're

04:14100 correct i don't know why coaches have over innovated this thing just qb sneak it

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