Indianapolis-Packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst supports the bid to end the rugby-style QB sneak that is popular by Philadelphia Eagles, often called Tush-Push.
Packers were selected as the team that made the proposed rules changed to consider the NFL’s Competition Committee.
“We’re not very successful against it, I know,” Gutekunst said Tuesday at the NFL Scouting Combine. “To be honest with you, I haven’t thought much about it. It.
Falcon’s head coach Raheem Morris said you can count Atlanta as one of the other votes for anti-tush push needed for the rule to come into force. At least 24 teams would have to support the resolution.
“I thought it should have been illegal three years ago,” Morris said. “The Tush Push Play, I’ve just never been a big fan. There’s just no other game in our game where you can absolutely come behind anyone and shoot them, pull them off. I never really understood why it was legal. I ‘I will definitely be one of these guys who vote against it.’
More than half of the Eagles quarter slope Jalen hurts 55 careers with regular season rushing touchdowns reached the final zone from the tight, rugby-like formation with back slopes angled near hurts to help shoot him over the finish line at snap. Last season, Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Raven’s variations of the same game ran.
NFL’s CEO of football operations Troy Vincent, who spent part of his career with Eagles, confirmed that the proposal was made.
“The club proposal is:“ We have to make some adjustments to it. Is it a viable football game? “, Said Vincent.
-Jeff Reynolds, Field Level Media
