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Kalyn Kahler
West Palme Beach, Florida – The Green Bay Packers’ proposal to ban the push Sneak, popularly known as Tash Push, has support in the competition committee, a source with direct knowledge declared in ESPN.
Another source having a direct knowledge of the thought of the competition committee said that the proposal will be “highly contested” among the coaches, the directors general and the owners while they meet for championship meetings this week.
The staff of the League office presented the rules proposals at the meeting of football operations on Sunday afternoon, and two sources of the meeting described the back and forth on this proposal aimed at “prohibiting an attacking player from pushing a teammate who was aligned directly behind the Vivaneau and receives the SNAP, immediately to the installation”, “heated”.
During the Sunday afternoon session, the director general of the Eagles of Philadelphia, Howie Roseman, the deputy director general Jon Ferrari and two head coaches to the Competition Committee, the Sean Mcvay of the Rams of Los Angeles and Sean McDermott des Buffalo Bills, gathered in a side corridor outside the ballroom to have a private secondary conversation and Animated on the packers’ proposal.
Packers’ head coach Matt Lafleur did not speak publicly about the team’s proposal and refused to comment on him when he was approached by ESPN on Sunday afternoon. The Director General of Packers, Brian Gutekunst, also refused a question of ESPN on Sunday afternoon. “I’m going to leave this to someone else to talk,” he said.
The teams offering a proposal will often save their argument for the day of the vote, which, in this case, will be Tuesday morning.
Green Bay listed two reasons in his proposal to ban the game that the Eagles made famous: players’ safety and the game of play. Several sources that participated in competition committee meetings on the play told ESPN that there was no data on injuries to support the prohibition, rather a hypothetical conversation centered on potential injuries.
The League presented the risk of push injury on the basis of data modeling, saying that defensive players are at risk of launching their heads and offensive lines because of their folded posture operating in a narrow window, which could cause neck injuries.
“He is not supported by the data,” said a club director. “Everything was subjective.”
Another source in competition committee meetings said that “it is not the safety of players. It’s just a different game and it looks different.”
The Tash Push had criticisms around the League since the Eagles started the game during the 2022 season. Coaches and executives and players argued that it was not a football game, some comparing it to a rugby game.
This is the third off -season that the competition committee examined the play, but the first time that a club submitted a proposal for rules aimed at eliminating or restricting it. The first source to the knowledge of the thought of the competition committee said that a “S — show” series in the NFC championship between the Washington commanders and the Eagles contributed to gaining momentum towards the current rules proposal.
During the fourth quarter of this match, the commanders committed four defensive penalties (one offside, three encroachments) on six consecutive Sneak Sneak games that started on their own line, preferring to take the Yardage penalty to such a short distance (half of the distance) to put a helping hand. The Eagles ran in the second row four times, in a sequence that removed a minute from the game clock and forced referee Shawn Hochi to make an official warning to commanders that if they were initiating another “insufficiently unfair act”, he would attribute to Eagles a touchdown. The Eagles marked a touch on the sixth attempted Tash push.
“It is more because of the appearance of the play,” said the source that was in the competition committee meetings. “To people who know what they want football to look on Sunday to (fans). Do (fans) want this game to flow 50 times on the field?”
But only two teams, Philadelphia and Buffalo, ran the push more than five times last season. And out of the 35,415 games in total last season, the push sneak represented only 101 of these games, 0.28%.
“What nobody likes in the discussion we have and the question you just asked is that the rule is directed to two teams,” said Atlanta Falcons CEO and chairman of the competition committee Rich McKay. “We have rules that reach a playing piece or a tactic or something that has never been envisaged and suddenly has been introduced, and there is a rule set up to say that we may not have to have this tactic or this game, so I do not think that we do not think that we like the fact that there are teams associated with this rule proposal.”
The Competition Committee will not detect or limit the number of rules of rules before they are high for conversation during owners’ meetings.
“There is no objective that we look at or filt for any club proposal,” added McKay. “Every club is authorized to offer what they want, then we (competition committee) will take a position, but we are only individual votes from our clubs, then they must arrive at 24 to pass.”
A club source told ESPN that their team would vote against the proposal because it does not believe that the proposal was “honest on reason”.
A head coach of the NFL told ESPN that he thought that the proposal is motivated by meanness, because some clubs do not have a quarter capable of making an extensive protrusion.
“It’s weak,” said the club’s executive. “It is punishing a team that became excellent to perform the game. In 2022, when Philadelphia was the only team to do so, there was a fear that it made the game less convincing because the fourth and shorts were more doubt. Then, other teams copied it, and they cannot do it as well.
“It smells like jealousy.”
After the end of the competition committee session on Sunday, the owner of the Cowboys, Stephen Jones, explained the opinion of the committee on the examination of the play and the Packers proposal.
“We are looking for consistency as a committee, and we do not allow to push,” said Jones. “We do not allow seconds to push the defensive line players on additional points and we simply try to be consistent. These quarter-arre, I am sure they would have a resounding success, whether you are pushed or not. Truth in the meeting room and among the owners and see where we get out.”
The owner of the Giants of Jones and New York, John Mara, two opponents of the Eagles division, both seated the competition committee.
Does Jones think that it is right that this proposal seems to target a team, the most recent Super Bowl champion?
“I think that is in accordance with our rules, and I think that Green Bay has brought this to our attention, and that is what we consider as a committee, and there will certainly be members,” he said.
There are a lot of gray zone because the proposal of rules is written now.
“No offensive player can immediately snap, push or throw his body against a teammate, who was aligned directly behind the Vivaneau and received the Snap, to help him try to win a film.”
“They cannot regulate each successful game that a team offers,” said a managing director of the NFL. “If it passes, it will be rewritten about six times. How do you determine what is” immediately “? You are allowed to repel a runner on the perimeter?”
Another club leader said he needed more information on what these details meant before his club could decide on the management they would vote.
NFL Network has reported that Eagles expect to have pro-Tresh allies in former Philadelphia coordinators who are now head coaches for other clubs, Kellen Moore with the New Orleans, Shane Steichen with the Indianapolis and Jonathan Gannon colts with the Cardinals of Arizona.
“All I’m going to say is that Gannon, Steichen and Moore vote for this,” coach Nick Sirianni told NFL Network. “They are in the position (head coach) at the moment because of this game. So the three, I better have these three votes right there and the voting of the Eagles. I know at least that we have four.”
The owners of the 32 clubs should vote Tuesday morning on all the proposals.
