Momentum around banning the tush push in the NFL is growing, per @diannarussini.bsky.social. Scoop City: youtu.be/TXlTPCp7qS4?...
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They should ban any player from pushing a player with the ball, period. Now when the Fridge carried the ball for the Bears. That was fun, funny and entertaining
mar 28, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
If only they had that momentum behind the line of scrimmage.
mar 28, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 28, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I want to see more than one team utilize this effectively at the same clip as Philly before this is deemed an unbeatable play that must be prevented. If it’s so good, you would have expected more than one team last year to use it.
mar 28, 2025, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Should we really trust the least accurate NFL "insider"?
mar 28, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
It's as if the momentum is getting a push of some sort.
mar 28, 2025, 12:31 pm • 10 0 • view
mar 28, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Wait until “The Russian Doll” becomes a play
mar 29, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Soft as fuck
mar 28, 2025, 12:23 pm • 9 0 • view
This is the trump way of operating. You just make something illegal that you can’t do anything about like a coward
mar 31, 2025, 1:00 am • 1 0 • view
F*CKING COWARDS. another microcosm of the country going conservative- no accountability. “Oh poor us, we can’t stop it. Boo hoo. Someone please save us because we can’t do it on our own” -Green Bay Fudge Packers
mar 31, 2025, 12:57 am • 0 0 • view
mar 28, 2025, 2:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Someone will adapt the Rugby maul to the same effect
mar 28, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 28, 2025, 1:05 pm • 2 0 • view
It must be soul crippling to develop this copy.
mar 28, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Good. It’s the lamest play in the game.
mar 29, 2025, 3:26 am • 0 0 • view
I like it but not that I'm against the tush push I think we need to go back to when would couldn't push the ball carrier at all on any play.
mar 28, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Except teams still did it when it's was against the rules. It's very hard to call. Plus this rule wouldn't ban paying the ball carrier, it would specifically ban only the way the eagles do it
mar 28, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
I am aware of all that. I'm just stating my general opinion that my issues with it all is pushing players on any play.
mar 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Let’s hope so-it’s called common sense. A 200 pound qb lowers his head and dives under a group of 5-6 huge bodies averaging 300 pounds each. Just imagine if just one of those bodies come down on the qb’s head are neck stuck between other bodies
mar 28, 2025, 12:29 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s literally the safest play in football statistically.
mar 28, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
By that logic they should ban the QB sneak and all short yardage running plays too.
mar 28, 2025, 12:52 pm • 8 0 • view
Mmmm, no. Those plays don't have people pushing the runner. If pushing is ok for offense then they need to allow people being pushed for FG blocks and on Defense. Currently that's illegal. Stop "aiding the runner".. which used to be illegal. Or allow aiding a player universally.
mar 28, 2025, 1:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Defense pushes each other all the time when making tackles.
mar 28, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s not what I was responding to. If the concern is neck injuries, my response applies.
mar 28, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
So solo tackles only from now on...got it!
mar 28, 2025, 1:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Different case. You cannot push a pass rusher to get through line. You cannot push someone to block a kick through the line. But you can push as much as you want to sid the ball carrier. That makes sense. Nothing to do w tackling.
mar 28, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
You can push as much as you want against the person making the tackle
mar 28, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Good! Or legalize D push off on FG & Extra Points!
mar 28, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
So dumb. There’s no reason to ban it. Just learn to defend against it.
mar 28, 2025, 12:33 pm • 30 0 • view
There was also no reason to change the rule that allows it, either.
mar 28, 2025, 2:00 pm • 8 0 • view
Yes there was, it was never called, and very hard to officiate. The refs were the ones who asked the rule to be taken away. But this rule is not the same as the one that was repealed 20 years ago.
mar 28, 2025, 3:00 pm • 1 0 • view
The general concept of pushing a ball carrier forward is what was changed - which is all the tush push is. Pulling is also tough to spot and rarely called. Yet that rule stuck around.
mar 28, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Pulling is much easier to spot. It was the refs who requested the push rule be removed. And the packets don't want to put the rule back in. They're fine with pushing the ball carrier, they just want to specifically ban the way the eagles do it.
mar 28, 2025, 3:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Pushing, especially w/ this play, is quite easy to spot. It's also incredibly easy to spot when a pile is being pushed- when a RB would otherwise clearly be stopped. As for your argument about GB specifically targeting this play, I get it. I'd just be in favor of the whole act being banned.
mar 28, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Referees are on record as specifically saying pushing a ball carrier is hard to spot. That's the whole reason the rule was done away with
mar 28, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Referees occasionally missing a call is not a valid reason to remove the rule entirely.
mar 28, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Not occasionally. Consistently, so much so that the refs as a whole decided to stop calling it. And didn't call it for years until the league finally removed the rule. And again that was over 20 years ago. What's changed in the 20+ years since the rule was removed?
mar 28, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
What's changed is an escalation over the past number of years, causing most plays to look like a rugby scrum. Again, it isn't just this specific play. It's all of it. It has clearly escalated. To me, it's like carrying in the NBA. Do Refs call it? No. But if you get rid of it, it'll get worse.
mar 28, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Good. This shit ain’t rugby.
mar 28, 2025, 12:37 pm • 1 0 • view
you should learn rugby since you dont know football
mar 28, 2025, 1:59 pm • 2 0 • view
In rugby, a player holding the ball can be pushed, but only by other players, and only in specific situations like a scrum, ruck, or maul, or when attempting to tackle or push them into touch. I also loved in Australia for 3 years watching Rugby. Try again.
mar 28, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Learning football and it turns out assisting the runner by pushing had been illegal for most of its history
mar 28, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Technically against the rules, but never called. That's why they got rid of the rule, it was impossible to call
mar 28, 2025, 2:47 pm • 2 0 • view
“I feel like” “more than I’ve heard before” Vibes-based.
mar 28, 2025, 2:43 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm not against it but if it were banned I almost wouldn't be against it
mar 28, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
So freaking lame. The league is soft as hell. If you don’t like it, stop it. If it were so easy every team would do it.
mar 28, 2025, 1:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Games gone soft
mar 28, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Good. No need for it. If I want to watch Rugby, I’ll check out ESPN 6 at 3:00am on February 29.
mar 28, 2025, 12:47 pm • 1 0 • view
You have no idea what rugby is
mar 28, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
I actually do. It was sarcasm. I still don’t like the play.
mar 28, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Lol soft af
mar 28, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Because I made a joke about a stupid play.
mar 28, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
As long as they call any false starts off of it, there is nothing wrong with this play. Defend it or get players that can run the play.
mar 28, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah yeah... and Rodgers to Vikings had momentum too
mar 28, 2025, 12:58 pm • 4 0 • view
This would not be fair….to people who had Saquon on their fantasy teams LAST year
mar 28, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
'We need to ban the forward pass because we don't know how to defend it!' That's how the NFL sounds right now.
mar 28, 2025, 1:55 pm • 5 0 • view
The Eagles getting punished for innovation. Lame league, lame owners
mar 28, 2025, 1:46 pm • 9 0 • view
Sounds right, gotta try something if they can’t put up a solid defense against Jalen, Saquon or DeVonta so …
mar 28, 2025, 12:54 pm • 1 0 • view
You only ban the tush push if you don’t like how the NFL games will look if all the teams adopt it or real safety concerns, I think Centers should embrace it and make it why they jump to one of the highest paid positions 😀
mar 28, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
The fact that the Eagles changed centers and remained just as effective with it is some good evidence against the Center being the important piece here
mar 28, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s wear and tear IMO
mar 28, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Only one team, a successful team really uses it. So if course. Momentum would also grow to stop makes from throwing off platform completions
mar 28, 2025, 12:23 pm • 1 0 • view
They might want to be careful what they wish for. Stopping Saquon with say DE Jalen Carter as a lead blocker might be a lot tougher than stopping the tush push.
mar 28, 2025, 2:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Jordan Davis for fullback
mar 28, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah. Davis or Carter. Davis is bigger and stronger but Carter might be my violent. Either one as a lead blocker could be fun.
mar 28, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
UGA used to use both of them together. Davis as 6th OL and Carter as FB. It was… effective.
mar 29, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
I would imagine it was nearly unstoppable. It would be an interesting alternative to the tush push should it get banned.
mar 29, 2025, 10:08 am • 0 0 • view
As a Steelers fan, teams just need to get good. If it was as over powered as everyone keeps saying, why are the Eagles the only team that can effectively run it? It's just loser behavior to go "I can't block this so it should be banned"
mar 28, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
If society really wants the eagles to stop running it, we gotta commit to calling it Gay Incest (literal translation of Brotherly shove tush push). “The eagles’ gay incest is unstoppable” “they love Gay incest”. Then the eagles will stop it out of embarrassment
mar 28, 2025, 12:43 pm • 0 0 • view
1) we’ve already been over this: bsky.app/profile/spac... 2) we’ve already been over this, now it’s weird you’ve mentioned it twice
mar 28, 2025, 2:37 pm • 1 0 • view
We will make t-shirts and scream it, especially in MaGA riddled stadiums played by dudes who wear sparkly stars on their helmets :)
mar 28, 2025, 3:27 pm • 1 0 • view
You digging up receipts is weirder than my stupid joke take I’m proud of
mar 28, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
no, it’s not.
mar 28, 2025, 5:15 pm • 0 0 • view
And right when Lindsey Graham was thinking about becoming a center
mar 28, 2025, 9:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Great. I'm sure following baseball's lead to ban plays that are difficult to counter is exactly what football needs
mar 28, 2025, 12:30 pm • 3 0 • view
No one was getting neck injuries from the overshift
mar 28, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
You can’t show us one single play where that’s happened on the tush push either. So shhhhh. Let the adults discuss if you’ve nothing to contribute
mar 31, 2025, 12:59 am • 1 0 • view
No one was injured in this play in 2024 jabroni
mar 28, 2025, 2:46 pm • 4 0 • view
Show me all the injuries… Hurts and Kelce/Jurgens… the main ppl involved have never gotten hurt running it…
mar 28, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
The only person to be injured on this play is Mahomes when the Chiefs tried to run it a few seasons ago. And it was a leg injury, not a neck injury. Every single play ever done individually have more injuries than this one specific play
mar 28, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
As an owner of Saquon in dynasty, I approve of this momentum.
mar 28, 2025, 2:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Ban the “Automatic First Down” after a 5 Yard defensive penalty: 4th and 50, defensive holding, 5 yard penalty. AUTOMATIC FIRST DOWN! Should be 4th and 45~ #NFL
mar 28, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
If they want to ban pushing ball carriers as a whole... fine. Targeting a specific instance because a couple of teams - Bills and Eagles - have the players to be highly successful is just an effort to make those teams less effective and ridiculous.
mar 29, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
They could just have their QBs hit leg day harder
mar 28, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view