{"id":770399,"date":"2026-02-23T04:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/770399\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:32:20","slug":"nfl-teams-arent-concerned-about-the-safety-of-the-tush-push-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/770399\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL teams aren\u2019t concerned about the safety of the tush push anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Once an inevitably, the tush push became less effective and less frequently used by the Eagles in 2025, and as a result, all the people on the NFL\u2019s competition committee who argued the play should be banned because of the danger, no longer have a problem with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">NFL competition committee co-chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/2025712959150842282?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rich McKay announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rich McKay announced<\/a> on Sunday ahead of the NFL Combine, that they don\u2019t anticipate any team bringing up another proposal to ban the tush push this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThere\u2019s no team proposal that I\u2019ve seen from it,\u201d McKay said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48010331\/rich-mckay-expect-tush-push-ban-proposal-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to ESPN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to ESPN<\/a>. \u201cSo, I wouldn\u2019t envision it. But you never know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The move to ban the play didn\u2019t receive enough support last offseason to alter the rule book, but the expectation was that it was something that would be revisited in the future. Now that the Eagles aren\u2019t executing it at a rate of over 90 percent, there isn\u2019t much of a need to revisit banning it, apparently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Interesting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s almost as though when Sean McDermott argued about the safety concerns and dangers of the play, but then went on to utilize it the second-most among the league, that his points were pretty obviously hypocritical.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Most Eagles fans seemed resigned to the fact that the league was going to limit access to the tush push at some point, and if nothing else, just wanted the national debate to come to an end. At least by teams seemingly shelving the issue this offseason, they\u2019ve essentially confirmed what people knew in Philly all along \u2014 the rest of the league just didn\u2019t like the Eagles being so good at a play that most defenses couldn\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once an inevitably, the tush push became less effective and less frequently used by the Eagles in 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[19858,257,7,5629,8578,15509,6,927,109,19859,3026,425,12923],"class_list":["post-770399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-competition-committee","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-football","tag-getty-images","tag-icon-sportswire","tag-lincoln-financial-field","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-combine","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-rich-mckay","tag-sean-mcdermott","tag-the-eagles","tag-tush-push"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}