When Lions president Rod Wood blurted out that the league office nudged the Lions to propose a new seeding system, it opened a new avenue for understanding how the rulemaking sausage gets made. And we suggested at the time that 345 Park Avenue possibly put the Packers up to proposing a tush-push ban, too.

Per a league source, that’s exactly what happened.

The league asked the Packers to do it. And the Packers took one for the team.

As the source put it, most in the Green Bay organization don’t care about the play, either way.

It never made sense for the Packers to be the anti-tush push poster child. They lost to the Eagles twice last year. A proposal coming from Green Bay reeked of sour grapes.
The league would have been better advised to get a team from the AFC (other than the Chiefs). Bills coach Sean McDermott spoke out in favor of the initial proposal; McDermott’s voice had credibility because his team uses the maneuver, and does it well.

Of course, the initial version of the proposal banned an "immediate” push of the player receiving the snap. The Bills don’t run it that way. When the proposal shifted to a version that banned all pushing, the Bills may have felt a little differently.

Regardless, the Packers were the ones the league office targeted. And the Packers are the ones that will carry the public embarrassment of the proposal going to a vote (instead of being withdrawn) and failing.

The truth is it’s not on the Packers. The league office wanted to get rid of the play. For whatever reason, the league decided not to propose the measure through the normal procedure but to create the impression that one specific team decided to push for no tush push.

Interesting. So it's the NFL league office that is being sneaky behind the curtains and getting their lackees to be public face of it.

I typically don't like Florio, but this is 100% believable. The NFL cares about image (and money, obviously). Hearing casual NFL fans talk about how the play looks like a rugby scrum and it not being a football play and all that aesthetic nonsense, I'm sure the league office took it to heart and wanted to out of football. They just want big plays and for teams to score more points...that equates to more viewers and thus more money/popularity, etc.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/nfl-as-suspected-recruited-packers-to-propose-failed-tush-push-ban

We still need to run the Tush Push three x's every drive, apropos for nothing, when we play them Week 10.

5 hours ago, time2rock said:

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/nfl-as-suspected-recruited-packers-to-propose-failed-tush-push-ban

Thought I was forgetting something

what a scumbag move...and that is was done by not 1 but 2 entities that are supposed to be IMPARTIAL to gamesmanship is the absolute worst. What I loved

to hear was how Lurie went in and FOUGHT for it and the things that he said ...we've made him PHILLY...and I'm grateful.

On 5/22/2025 at 7:45 AM, EaglesAddict said:

Interesting. So it's the NFL league office that is being sneaky behind the curtains and getting their lackees to be public face of it.

I typically don't like Florio, but this is 100% believable. The NFL cares about image (and money, obviously). Hearing casual NFL fans talk about how the play looks like a rugby scrum and it not being a football play and all that aesthetic nonsense, I'm sure the league office took it to heart and wanted to out of football. They just want big plays and for teams to score more points...that equates to more viewers and thus more money/popularity, etc.

The league is focused on things the way that Ben Johnson spoke about it. He asked if it was an explosive play. He said, he's only interested in explosive plays.

I don't get why it would be a shock that they recruited the Packers to do this. They used Mark Murphy to push out their agenda.

If it passed, then Mark Murphy could take credit for changing the law.

If it did not pass (as it did not) then the Packers could distance themselves from it by saying that Mark Murphy was the one pushing for it.

Of course the Eagles are probably F'ed this year because the league will do everything to screw them over. At least we got our second Lombardi.

13 hours ago, pallidrone said:

I don't get why it would be a shock that they recruited the Packers to do this. They used Mark Murphy to push out their agenda.

If it passed, then Mark Murphy could take credit for changing the law.

If it did not pass (as it did not) then the Packers could distance themselves from it by saying that Mark Murphy was the one pushing for it.

Of course the Eagles are probably F'ed this year because the league will do everything to screw them over. At least we got our second Lombardi.

Wouldn't it be sweet if we win another this year and the final play is the "Tush Push"?

Down 4 with a minute to go. We drive down to the 1 yard line with 3 seconds left on the clock. Tush Push in for the score and the W and another Lombardi!!