The Philadelphia Eagles may have officially won the Tush Push war.
According to multiple NFL insiders, the league’s competition committee hasn’t even discussed banning the play. On top of that, no team has submitted a proposal for a rule change this offseason, which means the Tush Push is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
Eagles may have just won the war for the soul of America
There have been no discussions, to this point, by the competition committee about banning the tush push, per Rich McKay. No team has made a proposal yet (unlike last year, when the Packers did). pic.twitter.com/1i1NkNi7HO
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) February 22, 2026
It was a witch hunt from the start, and anyone with two functioning brain cells could see it. Every time an owner spoke out against the play, the reasoning changed. One day it was player safety. The next it was the aesthetics. Then it was that it’s “just not football.” You name the excuse, some random NFL owner tried to use it to get the Eagles’ marquee play banned.
Because if this actually had anything to do with player safety, which was the argument they leaned on the hardest, the NFL wouldn’t just roll over and let the play live on like this. That’s not how the league operates. If there were real data backing a claim like that, the NFL wouldn’t wait around for permission. They would have banned it already. But it was never about safety. It was about taking an unstoppable play away from the defending Super Bowl champs.
If we’re being honest, if the effectiveness of the play had stayed the same this year, the NFL probably would have taken another run at banning it. Philadelphia wasn’t nearly as dominant with the Tush Push in 2025 as we’ve come to expect. The Eagles converted at roughly a 68% success rate this past season, a steep drop from 81% the year before and 93% at its peak in 2022.
The play was actually used more often in 2025 than it was in 2024 (112 times compared to 102), but the league-wide success rate dropped from 82% to 76%. It wasn’t because the NFL stepped in to hinder it. Defenses adapted, which is what NFL defenses always do.
That’s football, and for some ego-driven reason, the NFL and several of its owners tried to speed run that process last year by banning a completely legal play. It was always nonsense and one of the more embarrassing witch hunts the league has carried out in recent memory.
If the pendulum swings back in favor of the play again this season, maybe the NFL tries to ban it again next offseason. But for now, the Tush Push lives on, and for this brief moment, all is right in the world. The good guys won, and I can sleep easy knowing that.
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