Minneapolis – For the second time in two months, the Tash push is in danger.
Philadelphia Eagles Sneakback Sneak Play’s quarterrier survived the debate on his future at the start of championship meetings in Palm Beach, Florida. But club officials and the league did not feel comfortable with the future of the game to protect it in the long term.
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Rather than voting on the prohibition, officials filed a vote until this week’s league meetings in Minneapolis.
Expect that this vote takes place on Wednesday.
Friday evening, Green Bay packers had not changed their proposed ban to eliminate the thrust or the aid to the balloon, confirmed a league source in Yahoo Sports. Packers could modify the language of the proposal this week in the hope of obtaining the 24 of 32 votes necessary to adopt a change of rule of the League.
The most likely amendment, according to several championship sources: a return to the pre-2005 rule of the league which prohibited all the thrusts and the print of the bunge carrier. Such a proposal would functionally eliminate Tash’s push but would do it in a broader range.
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The chairman of the competition committee, Rich McKay, said in March that “nobody likes” to what extent a specific prohibition on the push of Tash would target the invoices of Eagles and Buffalo.
The Tash Push represented only 0.28% of the games last season, By ESPN data. The Eagles and Bills have run more in the last three seasons than the other 30 combined clubs.
Stop Jalen Hurts and the Eagles in short-yarding situations were a challenge for the defenses through the NFL. (Photo by Cooper Neill / Getty Images)
(Cooper Neill via Getty Images)
The Eagles and Bills have converted for a first test or a touchdown on 87% of Tash Push has been playing in the past three years, By ESPN dataCompared to the rest of the clip of 71% of the league.
Although the Games of Eagles and Bills are more impacted by the statistically rare game, the opinion of the League is divided on the quantity that this would really harm one or the other team.
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“The result of these 0.28% of the games is unlikely to change – the teams will sneak whatever the push,” said a familiar source with debate considerations. “Even when you look at the room. Sometimes the pusher cannot even come into contact with [Jalen] Hurts.
“Other times he does, but it was after the first try was reached.”
Data on injury is lacking, but that does not stop the push against the thrust
Packers initially introduced Push Tash ban this spring after team president Mark Murphy said he thought that “the game is bad for the game” and “there is no skill.”
Some club officials have backed up on the desire for packers to plead what games do and do not require skills.
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Others, including the owner of the Dallas Cowboys team, Jerry Jones, adopted the abolition of competitive unbalanced games that could reduce the entertainment value.
“The reason we have obtained the game of 2 points is [we] said the additional point alone, it is not exciting enough, “Jones told Yahoo Sports.” It reminded me how these things have evolved.
“It was more from the point of view of entertainment – which from my point of view, it is a good discussion. The fact that fans could be interested in what we do with them. We do things, and if someone does it very well or get an advantage, we could make defensive and offensive adjustments.
“It’s the discussion.”
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The adoption of the vote would require two -thirds of membership, but clubs do not all need to vote in favor of the prohibition for the same reason. If some clubs vote to slow down the defending champions of the Super Bowl, others for health and safety reasons, and more on the basis of entertainment problems? Their votes will also count. Like the opinions of the Supreme Court, what matters is the majority.
The required votes were not there six weeks ago. But a source of the league said that this week’s meeting is “generally the meeting that obtains what the league office wants if it could not obtain the votes in March”.
In 2023, the NFL changed its kick -off rule during the May meetings, allowing fair -kicks to start to start a possession on the 25 yards of the reception team.
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The chairman of the competition committee, Rich McKay, described this change as “all really motivated by health and security” at the time.
The available data did not indicate that the sufficiently clear evidence of the risks of increased injury to prohibit the push of TUSH purely on the basis of the game, multiple coaches, directors general and representatives of the League confirmed in early April.
But the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell nevertheless expressed his concern related to security.
“We have very little data, but beyond the data, there is also the injury mechanism that we are studying … which leads us to show the risk involved in a particular game or a particular tackle,” said Goodell on April 2. “There are a lot of rooms where you see someone shooting or pushing someone who is not in the tash push formation that I think I have an increased risk of injuries.”
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Historically, the more the league has supervised a change of rule through the objective of health and safety, the more likely it was. The prohibition of the hip platform of last year was an example, although its data is more concrete than that of the problems of damage to TUSH.
And the May meetings offer a different environment from broader March meetings, which invites all chief coaches and directors general to participate in the change of rules.
The only coaches and managers general likely to be present for this meeting are the handful The competition committee.
A Managing Director predicted that the League will pass a ban on all the pushes and pulling the ball this week.
“They will vote behind closed doors, then the rules will change,” said the director general at Yahoo Sports. “Would be surprised if it did not happen.”
