On Tuesday, the NFL’s competition committee agreed to table a decision on the future of The Tush Push, the Philadelphia Eagles’ near-automatic short yardage play, to a later date. While it is a stay of execution for now, there appears to be a growing push among NFL coaches and front office executives to either ban the play itself, or all instances in which a player’s forward progress is aided by a teammate.
For our Eagles’ sister site Bleeding Green Nation, I wrote this week about the controversy over the play and, if the NFL does ban all pushing on the field, it would be the only intellectually honest decision.