Eagles savagely troll Packers, NFL after 'Tush Push' ban fails to pass
NFL owners met in Eagan, Minn., on Wednesday to vote on the future of the controversial “Tush Push” play. It did not receive the required votes to pass and one team — the Philadelphia Eagles — are happy.
Philadelphia made the play famous, using it throughout their run to the Super Bowl this past season. Despite some support to ban the play, the Eagles will “push on.”
You’ll notice that the Eagles’ social media team used an image of the team lining up for the Tush Push against the Green Bay Packers; that is not by mistake. The Packers were at the forefront of pushing the ban. They even submitted a revised proposal this week. You just know Philadelphia had this one locked and loaded in the event the vote went its way.
It did, although it was close. 22-of-32 owners voted to ban the Tush Push. It needed 24 to pass. The Baltimore Ravens, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots and New York Jets were among the teams to side with the Eagles, per Adam Schefter of ESPN.
The Eagles trolled the Packers on social media. On YouTube, they took aim at the entire league who wanted the Tush Push gone from the game. They posted a video titled, “26 minutes of the Tush Push.” For the teams who pushed for the ban, they’ll have to learn to stop it, which has been a struggle in recent years.
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How successful was the ‘Tush Push’ for Eagles in 2024?
The Tush Push appeared in just 0.28% of plays last season. According to ESPN, the Eagles scored a touchdown or achieved a first down on 87% of their tush push attempts. The rest of the league was successful 71% of the time.
Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni defended the Tush Push after learning about the original ban proposal. Some consider it to be an automatic play, but Sirianni denied that take.
“I’ve seen some of the stuff that it’s an automatic play or that it’s not,” Sirianni said, via NFL.com. “We work really, really [hard]. I almost feel a little insulted because we work so hard at that play. The amount of things that we’ve looked into how to coach that play, the fundamentals. There’s a thousand plays out there, but it comes down to how you teach the fundamentals and how the players go through and do the fundamentals.
“I can’t tell you how many times we practiced the snap. We practice the play because it’s not a play that’s easy to practice, so there’s different ways we figured out how to practice it.”