Green Bay Packers submit revised ‘tush push’ ban proposal

Last month, the NFL owners decided to table the proposal. They are scheduled to vote on it this Wednesday.

“I know we’re not very successful against it, I know that. But to be honest with you, I have not put much thought into it. It’s been around for a while,” Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said at the combine, per ESPN. “We’ve used it in different fashions with our tight end [Tucker Kraft]. I think there will be a lot of discussions about it. I’ve got to kind of look at some of the information as far as injury rates and things like that, but we’ll see.”

Eagles HC defends ‘tush push’ after Packers’ ban proposal

Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni defended the tush push after learning about the original ban proposal. “I’ve seen some of the stuff that it’s an automatic play or that it’s not,” he said, per 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.”

“It’s a little insulting to say we’re good at it, so it’s automatic,” Sirianni added. “We work really hard at it. You see it throughout the league. I mean, we saw it in the championship games that a team failed at it and ultimately didn’t end up winning the game because of it. Every week, I watch every first-and-goal red-zone fail, every single time. Sometimes that first-and-goal starts at the 1(-yard line), and you see the team not be able to get in because they’re not able to do that. I think it’s a skill that our team has because of the players that we have, the way the coaches coach it.”