{"id":1125,"date":"2025-04-01T23:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T23:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:34:32","slug":"roger-goodell-hints-at-future-of-tush-push-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/roger-goodell-hints-at-future-of-tush-push-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Goodell Hints At Future Of \u2018Tush Push\u2019 Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_447518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-447518\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-447518 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 05: Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the NFL, looks on prior to the NFL match between Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs at Deutsche Bank Park on November 05, 2023 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Roger-Goodell-scaled-1.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-447518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Alex Grimm\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this offseason, the Green Bay Packers issued a proposal to the NFL to ban the \u201ctush push,\u201d the Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 iconic variation of the classic quarterback sneak play.<\/p>\n<p>In this version, at least one offensive lineman is positioned behind the quarterback and shoves the quarterback forward in order to secure a first down.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles have run this play to near perfection over the last couple of seasons, and it helped them win the Super Bowl championship a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Talks on whether the play will be banned have been tabled for now, but NFL commissioner Roger Goodell hinted that the ban proposal may succeed because of the concern over player safety, per Dov Kleiman.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think there are safety issues being considered with the tush push. We have very little data but we see the potential risk. It makes a lot of sense to go back to the old rule prohibiting pulling or pushing ball carriers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-script=\"true\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Uh Oh: Roger Goodell on banning the tush push:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there are safety issues being considered with the tush push. We have very little data but we see the potential risk. It makes a lot of sense to go back to the old rule prohibiting pulling or pushing ball carriers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pNlDfxV8jQ\">pic.twitter.com\/pNlDfxV8jQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL_DovKleiman\/status\/1907164313456153002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Player safety has been a big concern for the league in recent years after data has revealed the number of former players who have been diagnosed with CTE, and it has led to some rule changes to try to reduce the risk of brain trauma.<\/p>\n<p>However, as Goodell himself noted, there is little data to suggest that the \u201ctush push\u201d leads to injuries or brain trauma, which may make it difficult for enough owners to vote in favor of the proposal to ban the play.<\/p>\n<p>For a proposal to pass, 24 of the 32 league owners must vote in favor of it.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\/roger-goodell-hints-at-future-of-tush-push-play\/\">Roger Goodell Hints At Future Of \u2018Tush Push\u2019 Play<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\">The Cold Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Alex Grimm\/Getty Images) \u00a0 Earlier this offseason, the Green Bay Packers issued a proposal to the NFL to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}