Yahoo Sports host Andrew Siciliano and senior NFL writer Charles Robinson discuss how Roger Goodell and the NFL will use data to ban the Tush Push in future seasons. Check out the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Texting with someone, and you know, I reflected to him the same thing I reflected to you is like, I feel like they’re hunting it.
They’re, they’re, you know, Alan Sills, Doctor Alan Sills, Roger Goodell, Troy Vincent are like, they’re not gonna let another furious rally happen like it did last spring and save, save the play.
And, uh, so there’s another executive and he said, you know what, I know what they’re gonna do.
And I said, I, you know, I’m like, you do?
And he said, well, I can give you a good guess.
I said, OK, so give me your best guess.
And he said, what I think is gonna happen, I’m paraphrasing here, he said, they’ll go through all the Eagles touch pushes, and they’ll find the best evidence they have of the number of times they should have been flagged.
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So they’ll find the number of times someone lined up in the neutral zone with their, with their helmet, uh, you know, in advance of the ball, they’ll find every single time someone moved an inch before that ball was snapped, and what they’ll do is they’ll present that and go, The Eagles should have been flagged if the officials had the eyesight to do it, which they don’t, but they should have been flagged 32% of the to us plays.
That will transform the… because you’re gonna have, you’re gonna have people who sit there and look at this and go.
That should not be allowed.
Like if you, if you have evidence that flags should have been thrown, that something illegal has occurred 32% of the time and was not flagged, that should not be allowed.
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And we, as long as they can present that evidence to show something illegal is happening a third of the time.
It’ll never survive it at that point, because it, it, you have, you then have the platform to sit there and go, look, it’s, there’s, it’s basically there’s basically being, uh, used illegally over and over and over again.
We don’t have the human beings who can see it, but we do have the evidence it’s happening.