The NFL and its house owners did not push the ‘Tush Push’ out of soccer on Wednesday.
A 22-10 vote of the league’s 32 house owners on the Spring League conferences in Minnesota fell two votes in need of banning the play popularized by the reigning Tremendous Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.
Philly proprietor Jeffrey Lurie introduced retired former Eagles heart Jason Kelce into the NFL house owners’ deliberations on the eleventh hour to foyer for the play that Kelce and Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts initially perfected to be used in short-yardage first downs.
Optics govern how the NFL and its house owners suppose and function, and Kelce’s well-publicized look to stump for the vote unquestionably helped the Eagles shoot down a proposal put forth by the Inexperienced Bay Packers.
Lurie advised reporters he was “pleased” with the vote’s end result.
Commissioner Roger Goodell and competitors committee chair Wealthy McKay disingenuously cited participant security as a priority with the ‘Tush Push’ play as a result of quite a few our bodies crowded on the inside on the line of scrimmage.
However this is similar league that not too long ago elevated its grueling common season to 17 video games, expanded its worldwide journey schedule and is anticipated finally so as to add an 18th common season sport within the not-too-distant future.
“In this case, those votes were not there, so it stays the way it is,” McKay mentioned Wednesday.
Finally, it seems the league used the Packers and president Mark Murphy — with out a true proprietor for the publicly held franchise — as a entrance to attempt to cease a play that’s altering the sport in favor of 1 specific crew.
Buffalo Payments coach Sean McDermott, specifically, jumped on board the bandwagon of crying participant security all whereas his quarterback Josh Allen plowed forward into the road of scrimmage simply the identical.
The ten groups who voted towards the ban have been the Eagles, Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, Tennessee Titans and Jets, per ESPN.
Wednesday’s vote doesn’t hold the play within the NFL completely. The Packers, or league, gained votes from 16 in March to 22 right here in Could with a revised proposal, so a vote might be reintroduced in 2026.
For now, although, newly prolonged head coach Nick Sirianni and the reigning champion Eagles can proceed to run a play that has been so efficient, it has certainly one of their NFC rivals — and actually, the league itself — making an attempt to eradicate it.
Initially Printed: Could 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM EDT
