The main alternative of tash push could go too far

Green Bay Tash’s push proposal was filed until May. And it is likely to return in a very different form.

The original proposal for packers (which may or not Inigined by the League officeLike the Lions re -embellishment proposal) was seriously wrong. He prevented an “immediate” push from the player who received the Snap. Which, if he had succeeded, would have opened a box of worms concerning the official coherence of what is and is not “immediate”.

The most obvious help, as mentioned last week by Commissioner Roger Goodell (who seems to want the rule to change), is a return to the pre-2006 regulations. More recently, the president of Packers Mark Murphy mentioned it as the probable alternative.

At that time, pushing And The shot of the ball was prohibited. The league has deleted the ban on pushing a teammate because it has never been called. (According to us understand it, helping the runner – by pushing or pulling – has not been called for a match of the 1994 qualifying series between the Bills and the Chiefs. During the 2024 qualifiers, we reported that the League do not instructT civil servants to call mistakes for shooting a runner, since he was not called.)

However, a source to the knowledge of the dynamics explained it, the 2006 adjustment occurred within the framework of a wider set of changes in the rules concerning blocking. Simply prohibiting the thrust without making other adjustments to the blocking rules could have, such as the source, the involuntary consequences.

Frankly, it is not necessary to prevent a field push. Although it is considered an unnecessary roughness for a player to load the field and a barrel in his teammate with the ball (we call him, we are told five or six times a year), there is no specific concern concerning a teammate pushing a teammate with the ball spontaneously.

The best approach could be to prohibit thrust in limited circumstances. Basically, in the tackle box and / or five meters (or another specific distance) on each side of the melee line.

The problem is that the League does not want to give the impression that this modifies the rules to target a specific team. But we all know that is what is happening. Why play games with?

If it is a safety risk and / or aesthetically problematic, cut with a scalpel and not a chainsaw. Green Bay’s proposal last week, as bad as she was, started the conversation. The best way to finish it, if Goodell is able to twist 24 arms, is to make a change that focuses on the technique that causes concerns, without trying to repair unrelated maneuvers (like a field push) which are not broken.