Once an inevitably, the tush push became less effective and less frequently used by the Eagles in 2025, and as a result, all the people on the NFL’s competition committee who argued the play should be banned because of the danger, no longer have a problem with it.
NFL competition committee co-chairman Rich McKay announced on Sunday ahead of the NFL Combine, that they don’t anticipate any team bringing up another proposal to ban the tush push this offseason.
“There’s no team proposal that I’ve seen from it,” McKay said, according to ESPN. “So, I wouldn’t envision it. But you never know.”
The move to ban the play didn’t receive enough support last offseason to alter the rule book, but the expectation was that it was something that would be revisited in the future. Now that the Eagles aren’t executing it at a rate of over 90 percent, there isn’t much of a need to revisit banning it, apparently.
Interesting.
It’s almost as though when Sean McDermott argued about the safety concerns and dangers of the play, but then went on to utilize it the second-most among the league, that his points were pretty obviously hypocritical.
Most Eagles fans seemed resigned to the fact that the league was going to limit access to the tush push at some point, and if nothing else, just wanted the national debate to come to an end. At least by teams seemingly shelving the issue this offseason, they’ve essentially confirmed what people knew in Philly all along — the rest of the league just didn’t like the Eagles being so good at a play that most defenses couldn’t stop.