NFL Rejects Ban on Tush Push Play
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In the same vein as the play itself, the "Tush Push" barrels forward. On Wednesday, NFL owners voted at the spring league meeting to keep the play made famous by the Philadelphia Eagles, rejecting a proposal put forward by the Green Bay Packers to ban it.
The final vote on the proposed ban of the Tush Push was 22-10, and at least 24 votes were needed to pass it. The Chicago Bears were one of the 22 teams who voted to ban the play.
Jalen Hurts doesn’t call it the Tush Push. No, he likes to keep it standard: The quarterback sneak. But the only thing standard about the play that involves Hurts getting shoved by a teammate or two in the physical region that defies verbal grace is the consistency with which the Philadelphia Eagles pick up first downs,
A movement to outlaw the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles’s beloved if controversial short-yardage play fails to get the required votes
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SB Nation on MSNJets helped keep “Tush Push” legal...Will they take advantage?The Jets were one of the ten teams to vote against the ban. The Super Bowl Champion Eagles have used the “tush push” to turn short yardage situations into almost automatic conversions. Using the mobile 6’1” 223 pound Jalen Hurts, the play has turned into a big advantage for Philadelphia.
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Kevin Stefanski explained with the Cleveland Browns sided with the Philadelphia Eagles in voting against banning the controversial tush push play
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