NFL Owners Meeting: Tush Push Ban Fails + More NFL Updates

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00:00A dramatic day in the NBA playoffs, a dramatic evening as well in the Western Conference Finals

00:05in the Stanley Cup postseason. Maybe we should have anticipated drama on a Wednesday with a

00:11dramatic early morning in Minneapolis at the NFL owners meeting, of course, with the hot button

00:17topic. Will the tush push survive or will it be banned? When we were live here on the early line

00:23yesterday, it felt as though after the competition and player health and safety commitments has

00:29unanimously voted to ban the tush push, that play was going to be on its last legs. But as we also

00:36shared, Jeffrey Lurie, Philadelphia Eagles owner in the Twin Cities, making impassioned pleas to keep

00:43the play in the National Football League. Even retired center Jason Kelsey there to speak with

00:49NFL ownership trying to keep the tush push in the NFL. Somehow, someway, DRS, it seemed as though

00:57it worked. The tush push survives. Only 22 votes to the yes on the Packers proposal to ban this play.

01:07Two votes shy of the necessary 24 that would have been the super majority needed to ban the tush push.

01:1422 yeses, 10 noes. And that's all the tush push needs. We will continue to shove butts in the National

01:22Football League for at least another year. Yeah, and everybody can do it. So it's not as if, again,

01:27like the Eagles are the only team that are allowed to do this. Everybody can use it at their disposal.

01:32Everybody can do it. Some teams don't invest in their offensive line enough to do it and or an

01:36athletic quarterback, which the Eagles have. But also understand, like, the optics of it is what

01:40Roger Goodell was worried about, which I do find hilarious. It's not the optics of the Eagles getting

01:45first down after first down. It was in the NFC Championship game when the Eagles already had

01:49broken the back of the Washington Commanders. And Frankie Lubo decides, I'm going to jump off

01:54four or five times. Like, look, you keep it up. We're going to avoid it. We're going to award a

01:57touchdown for the Eagles. Oh, we can't have that. So then that sort of sets off, like, the chain

02:02reaction in my mind that goes, all right, well, if we hate that Patrick Mahomes is so good and we're

02:07down 21 points in the fourth quarter, why don't we just keep going off sides at midfield to make a

02:11mockery of the sport? And then eventually the Chiefs would be awarded a touchdown. But then so the

02:16combat would be don't let Patrick Mahomes be all that good. Like, that doesn't make sense to me. And

02:20also, you know, you combat that Frankie Lubo jumps over the pile. All right, five yards. Does it again.

02:25You want to do it again. You're ejected from this football game. You know what, Ben? I guarantee he

02:29probably does it again because they're getting blown out. But then you keep it up during the season.

02:33It turns into game suspensions at that point. So I never bought the, hey, we don't like the way this is

02:37going to turn out because it's embarrassing what the defense will be able to do on the six inch. No, it's not.

02:41How about you go outside twice? It's an automatic touchdown. What's embarrassing about that? Yeah,

02:44embarrassing on the team that actually just did that. Now, also from a Jeffrey Lurie perspective,

02:50I love where he came with the ammunition that goes, if you want to ban it, right, show me the

02:55plays. Because if I have a quarterback or our quarterbacks or centers, defensive tackles and

03:00linebackers get injured every single time we run this play, nobody would advocate for it. But what he

03:05was saying was, you know what, we invest in it. We have a technique for this and it works for us.

03:10You want to ban it, go ahead. But just use reasoning of, Jeffrey, we can't stop your franchise. You are

03:16so powerful, we have to illegally take a playoff. Like Will Chamberlain back in the day. Hey man,

03:21all the guy does is dunk a basketball. Make dunks illegal in the NBA. That shows how dominant Will

03:25Chamberlain was and you couldn't stop him. The only way to do it was to actually change a rule in your

03:30favor. Everybody could dunk back in the day, Ben, with Will Chamberlain. Everybody can run the tush push

03:35today. So for him to use the equation of, if you tell us we can't do this anymore, you admitted we're

03:40the most dominant franchise in the history of the sport on offense. And if you don't ban it,

03:45we'll continue to do it and possibly win more Lombardi trophies. He stood in such a power position

03:51at that meeting. I love to see it the way he laid it out.

03:54And DRS, I think you are spot on there. I think you obviously, you love the Philadelphia Eagles and

03:59that is certainly guiding this conversation. But let me just say as well, to Donnie's point,

04:05one of the reasons it was difficult, I thought, for this proposal to be approved and to pass is

04:11because there wasn't really a risk of player health and safety. No data, no stats, no figures pointed

04:17that the tush push is more of a dangerous play than any other in a violent game of football. Even

04:23the NFL's lead doctor of the health and player, you know, the health commission, I'm blanking,

04:29on his name, but there was so much reporting yesterday. Alan Sills, I believe it was,

04:34he didn't show up to the ownership meetings, which showed to a lot of owners that maybe this is not

04:39really what is at stake. And to Donnie's point, everybody can do the tush push. Philadelphia just

04:45has invested in it. So there's really not a competitive advantage, a loophole in a regulation

04:51the Eagles have taken advantage of that nobody else can. So you're really just banning a play then

04:57based on optics, both for Philadelphia and how it looks in the sport as well. A rugby scrum,

05:04not exactly the prettiest football play we have ever seen. And of course, DRS, there was a ton of

05:10reporting out of the Twin Cities yesterday on how these meetings played out, what Jeffrey Lurie

05:15exactly said, how Jason Kelsey was up there at the podium as well. And the reaction, of course,

05:21from owners inside those beating rooms. And when the vote came to task and much of the reason,

05:28or at least it seemed a lot of the reason that the nine other teams joining Philadelphia in voting no

05:34on this proposed rule change was because of the NFL becoming overly involved. People were rubbed the

05:40wrong way. The commissioner Roger Goodell basically was kind of the guy behind this thinking the play

05:45is ugly and not wanting it in the sport in feeling as though he used the Green Bay Packers who did not,

05:52of course, have a principal owner, do not have a single individual. And that's the blowback for this

05:57idea could not be placed on one guy on one front office. So he used the Packers to propose this to

06:04try to get it out of the game. And so a lot of owners felt like we're your boss, buddy. And we're

06:10going to vote no because you can't tell us what to do, whether true or not. That was a lot of the

06:15reporting yesterday from Minnesota. Yeah. And also you take a look at like if Roger Goodell wants it,

06:20a lot of everybody loves Roger Goodell. And like back in the day with Al Davis, Al Davis just voted

06:24against everything that the commissioner Pete Roselle would have because they just hated each other.

06:27And there's lawsuits left and right. So there's a little bit of animosity. But again,

06:31like you have to be open minded. Like if there's a, Hey, you know, we love wide receivers going

06:36across the middle, getting concussions left and right. Like nobody advocates for that. You want

06:39that eradicated out of the sport. It's why so many changes are made to be safe. So if you're sitting

06:43on your pedestal where the cuts, the competition committee is saying that we want to take it out

06:48for injury purposes, but you have zero data that shows any injuries whatsoever. And there's actually

06:53data set the board. It's the safest play in NFL history, which is crazy and possibly true.

06:58So you couldn't see it go take it out. Now, granted, this could be up on a year to year

07:02basis at this point and be voted. And it was close to get turning down. We'll see how it's

07:06used this year again, but for the Philadelphia Eagles and their fans, you know, day number

07:10one against the Cowboys, they will use this play six to eight times from multiple touchdowns

07:15and get rousing ovations from the home crowd.

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