Sean McDermott’s position by Tash Push of Bills underlines the safety of players as a boring debate comes to the head

Palm Beach, Florida – Everything about the Tash push is stupid.

The sentence seems stupid. The game looks stupid. The lively discussion around her is stupid.

So guess what the hottest subject was here during meetings of the owners of the NFL, where in the coming days, the League will decide what to do with boring quarter.

The fact that the conversation has soaked for months in the off -season of the NFL is also stupid. The room is a wrinkle, a small nuance. But the industrial football complex transforms each treat into titles and debate.

Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott is part of the competition committee. As such, journalists bombed him with questions about Tash’s push on Monday morning at Palm Beach Resort Breakers and the question of whether the NFL should prohibit it. He looked exasperated, aspiring someone to ask him practically something else. He could have favored questions about Matt Araiza or 13 seconds.

The thrust of Odious Tash, a quarter-Arrière de Court-Yard projection which implies at least a teammate pushing it from behind, is worthy of interest because it is unusual and, when it is well executed, seems unstoppable.

The rugby melee is an important part of the brand of the Eagles of Philadelphia and, as champions of the Super Bowl, they injected it into the consciousness of America.

The game also presents elements of injustice (defensive players are not allowed to counter by pushing teammates from behind), makes it difficult to place the ball afterwards and make a bad television. In the NFC championship match, Washington commanders had so many Tash push brands that they have committed four penalties over a period of five games near the goal line, forcing the disgusted referee Shaun Hochuli to announce that the officials could simply attribute to the Eagles a touchdown if the behavior continued.

McDermott has added that Bills data show that teams that use TUSH’s thrust does not succeed more than when they call a traditional quarter in any case.

More importantly, many NFL people think it would end up leading to a catastrophic injury.

“Being responsible and proactive in this regard,” said McDermott, “is the right way to follow.”

Pursback made the NFL decision more delicate than it should be. Those who want to preserve the Tash push insist that the criticisms are just jealous, their teams have not been better or too shy to send their quarters to the breach like Philadelphia with Jalen Hurts. For example, Patrick Mahomes (too precious), Lamar Jackson (too precious) and Tua Tagovailoa (too fragile) are never invited to try.

Critics also note that no significant injury has occurred due to Tash’s push.

But, rest assured, when a quarter of a franchise is injured, the rules will change. This is what happened when the title MVP Tom Brady underwent a report at the end of the knee season after the 2008 season. The security of chefs Bernard Pollard struck him legally. The NFL therefore made this type of illegal blow, prohibiting the knee contact of a smuggler or below. Brady, by the by, was one of the largest QB sneakers that ever faufilé, and he never needed a Tash push.

ESPN.com reported that the Tashversations have been “heated” and “strongly disputed” and that McDermott, the Rams coach of Los Angeles, Sean Mcvay, the director general of the Eagles Howie Roseman and the assistant GM of the Eagles Jon Ferrari had a “private and animated secondary conversation” Sunday evening on the proposed change of rule.

“Let me put this in law,” said McDermott with a smile on Monday morning. “It was not an animated conversation. I can promise you. You have two or three passionate guys, passionate coaches, and in the case of Howie, a managing director, who share their thoughts. We have a lot of respect for each other. We all come back for a long time. “

Green Bay’s packers proposed that the NFL rules be changed to “prohibit an attacking player from pushing a teammate who was aligned directly behind the Vivaneau and receives the SNAP, immediately at the SNAP”. See? The NFL does not call it the Push tash or my favorite term – the fraternal blow is much cooler – in the documentation.

In question, rule 12, section 1, article 4, which deals with assistance to ball carriers. Article 4 already prohibits a teammate from shooting the runner, using “the interference between locking” as joining the arms and throwing his body on the runner to propel him, or to prevent an opponent from recovering the ball. The packers’ proposal simply aims to add a fourth point.

McDermott did not declare how he would vote on the proposal, but he criticized Tash’s push despite the deployment of a version with Josh Allen.

“Yes, we make a form of this piece,” said McDermott, “and we do it well.”

The limits of the game were set in Buffalo’s defeat against Kansas City during the AFC championship match. Allen has plowed far enough to go beyond the first -rate marker, but not far enough to avoid the bad point of the line judge and returned the ball on Downs at the 41 chiefing line at the beginning of the fourth quarter.

McDermott explained that the Bills have spread from the Eagles in two critical ways: Allen’s body remains more vertical when it comes up against the line, and the invoices do not use as much shortcuts.

Flaffle at Burrows forward, head down and towards the back, now a posture which, in the rules of rules, is described as illegal for a defender hitting an adversary because the defender could be seriously injured.

“For me, (Green Bay’s proposal) removes strength,” said McDermott. “Traditional quarter-arre eyebrows have been around for a long time. This is the context that is important. Then the thrust adds the force of force, and this exponentially raises my concern. ”

In a follow -up conversation Monday morning, McDermott explained.

“Each time you and I look at Josh and his approach to the play,” said McDermott, “it is well documented that he goes to his left. Hurts goes to his left. The posture that I see Josh is more straight, and generally we had a single shooter.”

If Tash’s push is not prohibited and that he notices that Allen loses part of this posture discipline (for lack of a better term), what McDermott would do to protect it? Would the game remain on the attacking plaque of the attacking coordinator? How would Buffalo protect his franchise quarter, which recently signed a contract extension with a quarter of a billion dollars in guarantees?

“It is no different than if a player attacks the head down,” said McDermott. “As trainers, we must correct it thanks to the teaching, but I will also say:” Listen, if that continues, we cannot put you there. It would be irresponsible to allow you to continue doing this. “”

My sense of occasional conversations with several coaches and club managers here at Palm Beach Breakers is that the ban has substantial support, although the packers’ proposal can be changed before everything is cemented.

Three -quarters of NFL owners must ratify the recommendation of the competition committee for a change of rule to be formalized. The committee is co -chaired by the CEO of Falcons of Atlanta, Rich McKay and the executive of Dallas Cowboys, Stephen Jones, and includes the owner of New York Giants, John Mara, GM John Lynch, Katie Blackburn, San Francisco 49ers, Tampa Bowlch coach, Tampa Baye Mike Tomlin and Mcvay coach.

“The more you are in the competition committee, the more you understand the role, the more you understand how the process works and the history of regulation,” said McDermott. “When you take behind the scenes, this game continues to grow because people devote time to it while being objective on the best ways to do it while keeping the players as healthy as possible.”

And, although it is not always possible in the NFL, it is also great to go from something so stupid.

(Top photo of Sean McDermott: Jim Rassol / Imagn Images)