Every team that voted to ban the Tush Push last year is completely silent and the hypocrisy is staggering
Last offseason there were a ton of NFL franchises who voted to ban the Tush Push. The league carefully looked at a legal offensive play that the Philadelphia Eagles had mastered and decided it needed to be removed from football entirely.
The vote failed by a handful of teams and the Tush Push survived into the 2025 season over the furious objections of basically everyone who had ever been embarrassed by it on a field.
NO DISCUSSIONS ON THE TUSH PUSH!!
Those teams this offseason? Silent.
Not a word. Not a peep. Not a single owner or GM or head coach has stepped to a microphone to demand the play gets another look. The righteous indignation that filled every owners meeting breakout session last year has completely evaporated and nobody wants to explain why.
Here is what happened. The Eagles offensive line fell apart.
Lane Johnson missed the last eight games of the season. Landon Dickerson was banged up all year. Cam Jurgens missed time too. The most dominant offensive line in football became ordinary and the Tush Push stopped being the unstoppable force it was during the Super Bowl run.
Teams who voted AGAINST banning the Tush Push last year
The play did not change. The rules did not change. The physics did not change. The Eagles just got worse at running it and the second that happened every single one of those franchises lost interest in the conversation entirely.
Lane Johnson can’t help but laugh
Meanwhile the Buffalo Bills, who were among the loudest voices calling the play dangerous and fundamentally unfair to defenses, ran the Tush Push more frequently than 95 percent of the league in 2025.
They ran it on the goal line against Jacksonville in the playoffs to advance to the Divisional Round. The play that the Bills helped lead the charge to ban is now a weapon in their own arsenal and nobody blinked.
Josh Allen bulldozes his way for a yard and it is just football. Jalen Hurts does it and it is a threat to the integrity of the sport that requires a rule change.
The ten teams that voted against the ban last year were the Eagles, Ravens, Browns, Lions, Jaguars, Dolphins, Patriots, Saints, Jets, and Titans. Ten teams looked at the proposal and said this is a legal play and you are trying to ban it because one team is better at it than everyone else.
They were right then and the silence from the other teams this offseason proves it.
The Tush Push was never the problem. The Eagles being good was the problem. The offensive line will get healthy. The big guys will be back. Philadelphia will start converting those short yardage situations at the rate they did two years ago and the exact same franchises who cannot find their voice right now will be back at the owners meetings in 2027 demanding justice.
ZERO Tush Push conversations but we’ll see what happens next year
It was a witch hunt dressed up as a rules discussion and now that the witch is temporarily weakened, everyone has quietly moved on. The hypocrisy is not even subtle at this point.
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