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After months of statement and hours of treatment astatine the NFL's spring league meetings successful Minnesota Wednesday, the destiny of the "tush push" — the play the Philadelphia Eagles tally much successfully — has been decided. The Eagles' signature play is present to stay.
The Green Bay Packers' connection to prohibition the "tush push" failed to person the 75% enactment from NFL owners needed to pass, according to The Athletic's Diannia Russini.
Russini reported that 10 teams voted against the Packers' proposal. Twenty-four of the NFL's 32 owners' votes were needed for the prohibition to pass.
The Eagles posted connected X, formerly Twitter, a graphic of the "tush push" with the words "push on."
According to CBS Sports' Jonathan Jones, Eagles proprietor Jeffrey Lurie delivered a "passionate but fair" code astatine the outpouring league meetings. Former Eagles halfway Jason Kelce besides spoke successful defence of the play.
The propulsion to prohibition the "tush push" gained momentum again successful caller months pursuing the Eagles' ascendant playoff tally and Super Bowl LIX victory implicit the Kansas City Chiefs.
What is the tush push?
Also known arsenic "The Brotherly Shove," the tush propulsion looks elemental enough. It's tally erstwhile teams request abbreviated yardage. Players enactment up down and astir the quarterback; aft the snap, the squad pushes him forward.
Packers requested tush propulsion ban
On Monday, the Green Bay Packers submitted a revised proposal to prohibition the tush propulsion earlier the outpouring league meetings.
In the updated Packers' proposal, pushing oregon pulling a runner "in immoderate absorption astatine immoderate time" oregon lifting him to his feet would beryllium banned. If a subordinate pushed oregon pulled the runner during a crippled successful the upcoming season, it would effect successful a 10-yard penalty.
The Packers' connection cited subordinate information and gait of play arsenic a crushed to prohibition the tush push. However, the NFL has antecedently said that nary injuries person been reported connected the tush push.
Original tush propulsion ballot tabled
The archetypal ballot to prohibition the tush propulsion was tabled successful April astatine the NFL league meetings arsenic the league continued to summation much accusation astir the play.
The Packers spearheaded the effort to prohibition the tush propulsion pursuing the team's playoff nonaccomplishment to the Eagles successful the chaotic paper circular of past season's playoffs. Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy called the tush push "bad for the game" in a connection posted connected the team's website aft Green Bay was eliminated.
Philadelphia Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts (1) lines up for the extremity enactment Tush Push play during the NFL title playoff shot crippled against the Washington Commanders, Jan. 26, 2025, successful Philadelphia.
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"There is nary accomplishment progressive and it is astir an automatic archetypal down connected plays of a gait oregon less," Murphy wrote successful February. "I would similar to spot the league prohibit pushing oregon aiding the run."
The Eagles volition question to Lambeau Field successful Week 10 for a crippled connected Monday Night Football successful the 2025 season.
Eagles occurrence with the tush push
Other teams successful the NFL person tried to tally the tush push, but nary squad has been palmy arsenic the Eagles person been with backmost Jalen Hurts nether center. Philadelphia was 39 of 48 converting the tush propulsion into a archetypal down oregon touchdown successful the 2025 season, including the playoffs. Before the ban, President Trump voiced his enactment for the play during the team's visit to the White House successful April.
At the NFL owners meetings, Eagles proprietor Jeffrey Lurie sounded disconnected connected perchance banning the play, saying that wellness and information of the players is the astir important happening erstwhile evaluating the play, but the numbers were ne'er provided to him.
"I don't ever retrieve a play being banned due to the fact that a azygous squad oregon a fewer teams were moving it effectively. It's portion of what I deliberation that I emotion and we emotion astir astir shot is it's a chess match. Let the chess lucifer play out," Lurie said astatine the time.
What Eagles said astir the imaginable tush propulsion ban
Before the "tush push" prohibition failed astatine the outpouring league meetings Wednesday, respective Eagles players were asked astir it Tuesday successful beforehand of the NFL owners' vote.
Hurts declined to remark up of the vote.
Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown said helium didn't person immoderate thoughts connected the play.
"It's lone 1 yard," Brown said jokingly.
Birds near tackle Jordan Mailata said that the Eagles can't deliberation astir the NFL removing the play, and that they would conscionable tally a backmost sneak without the propulsion successful short-yardage situations if it's banned.
"In presumption of them banning the tush propulsion — I hatred that sanction truthful I anticipation they bash prohibition it, it's a anserine name," Mailata said jokingly. "But I can't power that, we can't power that, truthful we don't adjacent interest astir that. Right now, we're conscionable installing our schemes. Whatever [offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo] is installing that day, that's what we're focused on. Because worrying astir them banning the tush propulsion isn't going to triumph america different championship. What we bash present each time matters."
Eagles caput manager Nick Sirianni, who was recently rewarded with a declaration extension, antecedently said helium felt "a small insulted" astir the play being banned.
"We'll spot wherever that goes," Sirianni said Tuesday. "We're not waiting for precise agelong to fig it out. It's going to beryllium nationalist tomorrow, and you cognize however I consciousness astir it. We evidently were astatine the owner's meetings. We talked astir however we felt astir it and I don't deliberation anyone could question what my sentiment is connected it. So, we'll spot what happens with it tomorrow."
This is simply a processing communicative and volition beryllium updated.
Tom Ignudo is simply a integer contented shaper astatine CBS Philadelphia. Before helium joined CBS Philadelphia successful 2021, Tom covered precocious schoolhouse and assemblage sports for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He covers breaking news, sports and more.
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