Chicago Bears fans love to say the NFL goes out of its way to give the Green Bay Packers every advantage possible. That is why it always seems like the referees make calls that benefit them in key situations. Recent updates probably won’t change that narrative. Green Bay put forth a proposal to the competition committee to ban the “Tush Push” offensive play popularized by the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles. In this play, the quarterback runs a sneak, and his teammates lined up behind him come up and push. The Eagles have been almost impossible to stop in those situations.
According to Kalyn Kahler of ESPN, there is growing momentum in certain league circles to get the play banned, leading to some fierce debates within the committee.
The Green Bay Packers’ proposal to ban the push sneak, popularly known as the tush push, has support within the competition committee, a source with direct knowledge told ESPN on Sunday.
Another source with direct knowledge of competition committee thinking said the proposal would be “hotly contested” among the coaches, general managers and owners as they gather for league meetings this week.
The league office staff presented the rules proposals during the football operations meeting Sunday afternoon, and two sources in the meeting described the back and forth as “heated” regarding the proposal to “prohibit an offensive player from pushing a teammate who was lined up directly behind the snapper and receives the snap, immediately at the snap.”
This isn’t surprising.
Green Bay was victimized multiple times last season by the Tush Push. Their inability to stop it, which cost them in two pivotal games, no doubt led to bitter feelings among team brass. They will hide behind the guise of player safety when trying to outlaw it. In reality, they’re trying to find a way to weaken their biggest NFC competition the bitchest way possible.
The Green Bay Packers remain the ultimate hypocrites.
Even while trying to get the Tush Push banned, they themselves have benefitted from the play. They literally ran it last year successfully. It is hilarious how that organization tries to present itself as the most upstanding and pure in the NFL because they have no owner but, in reality, are as shady and hypocritical as any other franchise. It’s always been easy to hate the Green Bay Packers. Yet they keep finding ways to lower the difficulty even further. This is why beating them is always a cause to celebrate in Chicago and elsewhere. Knocking the Packers off that pedestal is so cathartic. The hilarious part is that even if they do get the rule banned, they probably still won’t be able to beat the Eagles.
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@nonobaddog
Can you please stop being triggered and shut the fock up and let that dude wear himself out? You singlehandedly have made him more active on this site. You are both annoying to no end.
Liar silly you don’t have the intestinal fortitude to play a man’s game like rugby, American football or any other kind of contact sport..
Keep meowing little pussy
How come the Bears, Warren, or Poles did not assert a complaint? Probably were afraid of alienating the Eagles establishment. Oh, I see, blame the Packers for doing the right thing and having the guts to raise the issue. I see now.
I’ve played rugby and watch it all the time. I like it. Much like tennis, it was to be a gentleman’s game. If you have never played or coached rugby then you know very little, just like American sportswriters who had never put on the helmet discussing contact football.
American football is not that type of game or spirit. It will never possess that same historical tradition. Sitting around praying or shaking hands after the football game is just not the same. Neither is the spirit of the contact.
@FootballAtArlington1: I agree with your evidence, but disagree with your conclusions. I think they should level the playing field by allowing the defense to push as well, on certain plays. Not sure how to implement this, but one suggestion below. For those of you who say this isn’t rugby, remember that Rugby Football and Association Football (what we yanks call soccer) branched off from one game, and then American Football branched off from Rugby Football. In Rugby football, they start some plays with a scrum, where the offense and defense push against each other; they start out in contact with… Read more »