Eagles

The Packers Formally Proposed Their Tush Push Ban

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Mar 19th, 2025 · 2:00 PM EDT

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The Packers have officially proposed banning the Tush Push. They are citing player safety and pace of play:

Packers officially are proposing to ban the Tush Push. pic.twitter.com/IX6RImu5tv

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 19, 2025

The #Packers‘ reasoning for trying to ban the Tush Push—which the #Eagles have excelled at—is because of “player safety” and “pace of play,” according to the NFL

— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) March 19, 2025

Pace of play is a new one I haven’t heard. Don’t know how the Tush Push affects pace of play any different than a running back getting a first down on 4th and 1 or a QB sneak, but the Packers seem to think so. The player safety reason has already been debunked. In February, the NFL found no data that showed the Tush Push was a dangerous play. I see a lot of people citing Chris Jones’ injury in the Super Bowl, but they forget he lined up sideways on the play, which sounds like something he was taught to do. That’s on the Chiefs not the Eagles. I wish the Packers and other teams were man enough to come out and say the Eagles are just better at it than everyone else.

Exhibit A:

pic.twitter.com/pC1zzHluRt https://t.co/qh9TwSQVqI

— Crossing Broad (@CrossingBroad) March 19, 2025

I can’t believe the Packers want to take the Tush Push away from the children. Do the Packers hate children?

 

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It’s going to hit like crack next season when the Eagles run the Tush Push for the first time in Lambeau if the NFL doesn’t ban it.

The Birds have their own rule proposal as well:

Rule proposal from the Eagles: Align the postseason and regular season overtime rules “by granting both teams an opportunity to possess the ball regardless of the outcome of the first possession, subject to a 15-minute overtime period in the regular season.”

— Zach Berman (@ZBerm) March 19, 2025

Seems pretty self explanatory. Have the same rules for regular season OT and postseason OT. Didn’t think the NFL would need Howie Roseman and Jeffrey Lurie’s big brains to come up with that one, but I guess you do.

Other rules that were introduced? The Lions have two. One was no automatic first downs for defensive holding and illegal contact and the other is wild card teams can be seeded higher than division winners based on record:

Lions want to delete automatic first downs for defensive holding/illegal contact pic.twitter.com/EDHQMfpzlP

— Ben Raven (@BenjaminSRaven) March 19, 2025

This is interesting: The #Lions proposed a bylaw change that would allow wild card teams to be seeded higher than division winners based on record.

This would’ve been helpful to the rival #Vikings last year, and could be a factor in future years in competitive divisions…. pic.twitter.com/cKs1JBGJU9

— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) March 19, 2025

I’ll give you one guess who led the league in defensive holding and illegal contact penalties last season. The Detroit Lions. On the other hand, I love the idea of seeding teams based on records even if it technically helped the Eagles this year. There’s no reason a 14-3 team should be playing an away game against the 10-7 NFC West winner because their division is competitive. In an alternate universe, the Eagles make the playoffs in 2014, which would’ve been back-to-back years for Chip Kelly and maybe they don’t get rid of him as quickly. That’s not an alternate universe we don’t need to explore any further.