Eagles

Citing “Pace of Play” as a Reason to Ban the Tush Push is Even Weaker than Harping on Disproven Safety Concerns

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: May 19th, 2025 · 10:09 AM EDT

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Tush push update here:

NFL owners are scheduled to meet Tuesday and Wednesday in Minneapolis to vote on a proposal to ban the “tush push” play that the Eagles have mastered. The proposal was tabled this spring at the league meeting in West Palm Beach but is expected to come to a vote this week. pic.twitter.com/pt6pNPB0z9

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 19, 2025

As the fate of the tush push is set to be voted on over the next two days in Minneapolis, members of the Eagles continue to call around the league discussing why the play in its current form should not be banned, per sources.

Here is the language of Green Bay's proposal: pic.twitter.com/UKeIyxqZQj

— Dianna Russini (@DMRussini) May 19, 2025

Go to the bottom of the updated proposal there and you see the reasons for the motion written as “player safety” and “pace of play.” We already know that player safety is fugazi. The NFL told us straight up that there was no injury concern with the push. That was based on their data. So you look to pace of play, which is even more fugazi than player safety. Have you ever thought to yourself, or has anybody ever said to you, that the tush push slows down the game to the point where it needs to be addressed? No. No one has ever said that. This is probably based on one ridiculous scenario in which Washington’s Frankie Luvu continued to jump over the line of scrimmage in the NFC Championship Game, which resulted in the officials warning the Commies that if they continued to delay, that the Eagles would simply be given the touchdown. But that wasn’t a product of the tush push itself, that was the product of an opponent coming up with some really dumb attempt at trying to slow down the Birds and keep them out of the end zone. There were already contingencies in place. The rulebook already had something to prevent that situation from occurring.

Here are some things that actually slow down the NFL’s pace of play:

• stuffing the game full of ridiculous commercials
• spiking the ball to stop the clock (not a football play)
• the two-minute warning
• giving each team three timeouts in each half
• constant video replay because the refs are blind
• having to walk the chain gang out there onto the field to measure for a first down when it’s 2025 and we have all the technology in the world available

So on and so forth. If the tush push does get banned this week, the Eagles really should wear it as a badge of honor. Other teams want to get rid of it because they aren’t good at it and it’s creating a competitive disadvantage. Instead of trying to catch up, or figure out a way to stop it, they went and cried to the NFL instead. Wah wah! Bunch of babies. The Green Bay Packers organization is soft. You would have expected the Cowboys to try something like this, but not the Packers, who are supposed to be this honorable and respected original franchise. Guess that’s not the case.