The 'Tush Push' Won't Be on the Agenda at the NFL Owners' Meetings. So What Will?

Did the Lions help keep the tush push legal for good?

The 'Tush Push' won't be on the agenda at the NFL owners' meetings. So what will?

It should be a quiet week for the NFL owners when they get together for their annual spring meetings in Phoenix beginning Sunday. Maybe more opportunity...

Without a proposal this year, is the Tush Push debate finally over?

The full list of playing rule proposals was released by the NFL this week and there was a notable omission. Nothing about the Tush Push. A year after the Green Bay Packers’ proposal to ban the Eagles’ signature play gained enough steam that it eventually failed by just two votes, there’s no such proposal ahead of the NFL owners meetings in 2026. So is this finally the end of the debate? “I don’t know that it’s the end of the debate, because I th…

Here to Stay? No Discussion on Banning Tush Push in 2026

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts lines up for a tush push against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Dec. 15, 2024. -- Ed Thompson / Steelers Now The NFL competition committee put forth its eight proposed rule and bylaw changes for the 2026 season on Tuesday. Those changes, along with two submitted by NFL clubs, will be debated and then voted on by the NFL owners during their annual meeting in Phoenix next week.  But after years of spirited d…

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 …