According to reports, the Tush Push Ban won’t get enough voter support from the owners

Drew Smith
March 26, 2025
Eagles
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According to reports, the Tush Push Ban won’t get enough voter support from the owners and in my humble opinion, if that’s the case, the Green Bay Packers should be fined for proposing it.

This entire “ban the Tush Push” conversation should’ve never gotten off the ground. From the jump, it was clear as day that the Green Bay Packers’ proposal didn’t stand a chance, because there’s nothing even remotely wrong with the play.

If you were hoping for health and safety to carry the Tush Push ban across the finish line, better luck next time. In the entire 2024 regular season, the Tush Push resulted in zero reported injuries. So if that’s the case, then really, there’s no reason to propose a ban in the first place.

A Tush Push Ban Never Stood a Chance Anyways

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That stat alone should’ve been a nail in the coffin for the proposal. You’re trying to legislate a play out of the game that’s literally safer than a standard drop-back? Get real. Let’s pause and think about this.

It’s not like we’re watching pileups with broken legs and concussions every time the Eagles line up for 4th-and-1. What we’re seeing is textbook execution—power football, brilliantly schemed, with a quarterback who squats more than most linebackers.

Every Team Can Run It, They Just Can’t Run It Like The Eagles…Obviously

The “competitive balance” argument doesn’t hold water either. This isn’t some Philly-exclusive gimmick that relies on a loophole. Every team in the NFL is allowed to run the play. Some try and fail. Some refuse to even attempt it.

That’s a personnel issue, not a rules issue.

Let’s not punish the Eagles for being bigger, faster, and stronger than everyone else. Isn’t that what competition is supposed to reward?

Honestly, the NFL should fine the Packers for even proposing a Tush Push ban

It's unclear whether the Packers' proposed ban of the tush push will get the 24 votes among the 32 NFL owners necessary to be approved, source says: "Not sure it can get 24." The sentiment is mixed on the NFL competition committee about the proposal. The owners meet next week.
— MarkMaske (@MarkMaske) March 25, 2025

Here’s my favorite part of all this: the Packers, of all teams, were the ones who proposed the ban. A franchise built on decades of smashmouth football and quarterback sneaks wanted to kill a quarterback sneak. That’s rich.

Packers President Mark Murphy cries about the Tush Push, calls the play ‘unskilled’ while also admitting it’s ‘impossible to stop’

Packers officially propose a ban on Eagles’ Tush Push

Frankly, Green Bay should be fined for even submitting the proposal. Wasting everyone’s time with this nonsense? Acting like the Eagles invented some dark magic ritual that violates the sanctity of the game? C’mon. The NFL should dock them a sixth-round pick just on principle.

Long Live the Brotherly Shove

So now we move forward, Tush Push intact, and the rest of the league gets to keep guessing how to stop it. Maybe some team figures it out in 2025. Maybe not. Either way, the Eagles aren’t apologizing for mastering a legal, efficient, injury-free play.

In fact, don’t be surprised if more teams start building rosters specifically to run their own version of the Brotherly Shove. Just don’t expect the results to look as pretty. Because until proven otherwise, the Tush Push belongs to Philly. And the rest of the league can line up and attempt to deal with it.