News: Proposal to ban tush push FAILS by two votes, sources say

[gtb1943]

Now I see why we drafted Booker and Keep Deuce

I would love to see us do it; in a preseason game of course. Just to see what happens.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

So.... Having no experience and hence no clue doesn't stop you from making conclusive statements on the very thing you have no experience with and no clue about.

Sounds about right.

I said nothing about that era you are the one who brought up Roger. I said eliminating things like spiked passes would hurt the game in 2025. You brought up the past when it didn’t exist as if that changes my stance on that. So yeah sounds like you’re the one with no clue and suffering from yesterdayism.

 

[mattjames2010]

Then why weren't you screaming to ban that all these years it's been happening, and only now mentioning it when The Push got so affected?

Coincidence?

I never heard ANYONE whining about OLers pushing a stalled WR or RB down the field before this.

Who said I haven't?

 

[StarOfGlory]

What's interesting is the NFL's competition and health and safety committees voted to ban the Tush Push. How do you keep a play after your own Healthy and Safety Committee recommends banning it?

The H&S committee has no actual data showing that the play is unsafe.

 

[StarOfGlory]

Plays and techniques that have actual data proving that the play or technique is unsafe have been banned in the past. If such data shows itself, the play will be banned. No such data exists.

 

[KingCorcoran]

What's interesting is the NFL's competition and health and safety committees voted to ban the Tush Push. How do you keep a play after your own Healthy and Safety Committee recommends banning it?

Those committees are made up of owners. Perhaps the votes were not unanimous in those committees. And the owners in those committees have the same bias when they’re not voting in committee. Eight of nine teams that did not vote for the proposal do not play the Eagles this year. It makes no sense to hand other teams any advantage when your team gains nothing.

The safety committee support of the proposal was probably laughed at by all 32 ownership groups. If they eliminate plays that have not caused injury, but not plays that have, very hypocritical. Slippery slope. Start eliminating dangerous plays there would be not football at all.

 

[ghst187]

And the quarterback immediately throwing the ball at the ground in front of his feet is not garbage?

Didn’t say that, it is..just rank it lower

 

[MisterWaffles]

Plays and techniques that have actual data proving that the play or technique is unsafe have been banned in the past. If such data shows itself, the play will be banned. No such data exists.

That's exactly it - Roger Goodell was incredibly foolish to make his case based on the safety/injuries argument when there is no hard evidence whatsoever that the play is a safety risk and creates more injuries than any other play. He (and some owners) have other reasons they want to ban it and they might as well just be honest about that. It's going to look petty regardless, but at least be honest.