FOX Sports’ Mark Schlereth Likes the Packers. The Tush Push? Not So Much | The Rich Eisen Show

And then in the NFC, uh, the Packers do lead the the roost in record. Do they lead the league for you, the conference for you? Are they the best team in the NFC? Because after them, it’s just a host of teams that have a shot, including the Lions. I mean, we were talking before about the AFC that if you win the AFC East, you could be either a two seed, a one seed, or the five seed. Same thing with the AFC West. That happened with the NFC North last year and it sure could happen again where you either win the division in the one seed or you’re going on the road to start the playoffs in a wild card weekend. Mark, yeah, I I don’t think there’s any question, you know, I thought Green Bay the first couple of weeks of the season, uh, I thought they were the, you know, playing the best of any team in football and then, you know, then they scuff a little bit, but they had a lot of injuries. They just got Christian Watson back. They had injuries at the receiver position. Um, I I tell you what, nobody’s playing better than their tight end craft. He’s just been amazing. But I I remember doing a game I think week three it was Washington and the Raiders and Washington had just gotten beat up by the uh by the Green Bay Packers and Cliff Kingsberry telling me I’ve never seen a faster team like in person like their their ability to rush the passer, their ability to just play flatfoot reads and say you’re not going to get the ball off before we break on it because ultimately our pass rush is going to get there. Um and and they got their health back on the offensive side of the ball. Um they’re going to be they’re going to be very tough to beat. No question. All right. Lastly for you, Mark, I said on the program yesterday after Jaylen Herz clearly fumbled the ball on a tush push and it was ruled a stop of forward progress as if he hasn’t been stopped with his forward progress before and the play winds up with him eventually being shoved in the end zone a couple of beats later, a couple of Mississippi later. I I’m saying that this is now we’ve now reached the zone of this being thoroughly um unofficiable, if that’s a real word. You can’t officiate it. So, I’m done with it. What about you, Mark? What about you? Yeah, I I was I was like I I like I love I love the physicality. No, I I do too, man. I I hear you, too. I I And and I I don’t want to be one of those people like, you know, they do it best, everyone else can do it, so you’re trying to prevent everyone else from doing it. But you can’t officiate it properly. You can’t officiate whether it’s a false start, if it’s off sides, or now in the case of of of this a fumble and and when forward progress is stopped ever. So, so my issue with it from the start is I love it as a football play. I think it’s great. Um, and it really wasn’t the officiating, it was the hypocrisy of the play because I played in a time where we used to shove a dude through the line of scrimmage on pet field goal and special teams. So, we got there was a guy that would be in the A gap. I would stand behind that guy. We’d get our tallest tight end or defensive end and I’d stand behind. I’d shove him through the A gap and try to block the field goal. And the league deemed that as too dangerous. So, that became illegal. Okay. How’s that different than the tush push then? So, it’s illegal to do it on special teams. Okay. Let me get it straight. It’s illegal to do it there, but on offense it’s fine. and and the hypocrisy that’s not congruent. That’s why I’d ban it is the lack of congruent nature of the play is exactly why I would ban the play. Yeah. I again, that was a clear fumble. And if you’re not if if you’re saying, “All right, that was forward progress.” Then then then his forward progress has been stopped on at least half of these. And then you allow it to keep going, which I understand that you do that. I understand that you do that. So if that’s if if if we can’t officiate it properly and now you can’t officiate it consistently then it’s to the another benefit to the team that runs it well. Yeah. Um yes is what I’m saying. So that’s why I’m a rich I completely agree with that. But I will say this uh at at the risk of getting in trouble. I don’t we can’t officiate any play consistently. So I gota All right. Well we’re out of time Mark. Uh, all right. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app 12 to 3 Eastern.

NFL on FOX analyst/’Stinkin’ Truth’ podcast host Mark Schlereth tells Rich Eisen if the Green Bay Packers are the class of the NFC, and why he dislikes the Philadelphia Eagles’ Tush Push play.

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7 comments

  2. Mark's not wrong. Right now, the officials are being judged in comparison to multiple high speed high rez cameras. This isn't fair and having the human element is vital to the game. I haven't seen any camera angles from the actual sight lines of the people making the calls, so how TF can you actually gauge how/where the play calling is going wrong. Personally, I think the NFL needs to give all the officials smart glasses and use them for training and review. They may need to move/relocate the officials to get better sightlines. This isn't going to change anything right away, but after a couple of seasons they will have enough data to address the issues. This isn't going to address corruption, to be sure, but if you can see what the official(s) are seeing, it's a lot harder to hide that sort of stuff. With the level of analytic data available, it will be trivial to sniff out anyone that's trying to manipulate the game(s), player/coach/official. Not in real time ofc.

  3. It's a throw back to the plays they used to run before 1906… where they introduced the forward pass, mandatory head gear, etc… why? Because 19 people died playing football in 1905. I agree with Mark AND Rich. Get rid of it.

  7. The Tush Push is a disgrace. It was a novelty that the league should have dealt with by now. Dangerous, almost impossible to officiate fairly and contrary to decades of precedent in things like 'pushing' players

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