Eagles vs Packers Week 10 battle already stirring up hype for 2025 NFL season

The Philadelphia Eagles have become so dominant with their signature Tush Push play that other NFL teams, including the Green Bay Packers, are calling for it to be banned outright.

In fact, the Packers took their frustration a step further, formally submitting a proposal to the league office in hopes of ending the play.

Per NBC Sports' Dave Zangaro, the proposal aims to eliminate the following scenario:

“To prohibit an offensive player from pushing a teammate who was lined up directly behind the snapper and receives the snap, immediately at the snap.”

The Packers' reasoning behind the Tush Push ban is for "Player safety and pace of play."

"What makes this proposal seem so misguided is the lack of any evidence linking the Tush Push to injuries. The play isn’t widely used across the league, not because it’s dangerous, but because most teams simply can’t execute it effectively.

The Eagles, however, are the exception. They ran the Tush Push 43 times last season and successfully converted it into a first down or touchdown on 39 occasions, an impressive 81.3% success rate.

Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni defended the Tush Push at the NFL Combine, emphasizing the effort his team has put into mastering the play, and calling it insulting that other teams want it banned simply because they struggle to run it themselves.

"I can't tell you how many times we've practiced the snap, we've practiced the play -- it's not a play that's easy to practice, so there's different ways we've figured out how to practice it -- the complements that come off of it that can create explosive plays," Sirianni said at the NFL Combine. "The fact that it's [portrayed] as an automatic thing, we work really hard, and our guys are talented at this play, and so it's a little insulting to say we're good at it, so it's automatic. We work really hard at it."

The fate of the Eagles’ signature Tush Push will be decided this week during the NFL owners meeting, where a vote will determine whether the controversial play remains part of the game. To pass, the proposal needs support from at least 24 of the league’s 32 team owners.

If the motion is approved, the league will move to ban the play, and you can expect the Eagles to respond with fire when they meet the Packers in the highly anticipated Monday Night Football showdown in Week 10. 

But if the vote falls short of the 24-team threshold, the Tush Push stays, and the Packers will be forced to shift to Plan B: figuring out how to stop what they couldn’t legislate out of the game.