The president and general director of Green Bay Packers, Mark Murphy, did not hide his desire to get rid of the game “Tush Push” from the NFL, and now he has action behind his words. According to Dianni Russini from The AthleticMurphy and Packers are a team that proposed a ban on “pushing Tush” with the Competitive Committee of the NFL.
Even in February, Murphy publicly stated his opinion about the art and hope that the league “forbids pushing or helping a runner” in “Tush Push”.
“I’m not a fan of this art,” Murphy wrote his monthly post of questions and answers to Packers.com. “There are no skills and it is almost automatic first in the art of the shipyard or less. A series of plays with offsides jumping commanders in the match for the NFC championship to try to stop the game, was funny. The judge even threatened that he gave the orłom an automatic placing if the commander did not stop him. I would like to see how the league prohibits pushing or helping a runner (QB) in this game. There used to be a rule prohibiting this, but it is no longer enforced, because I think it was thought that it was too difficult to see. The game is harmful to the game and we should come back to prohibit the pushes of the runner. This would restore the traditional QB trick. It worked quite well for Bart Starr and Packers in Ice Bowl. “
The world champion Philadelphia Eagles, who defeated the Packers twice in the 2024 season, popularized the play with Jalen Hurts and at least two players behind him to “push” chapters of the quarterback on a miniature distance. Art for the first time gained popularity in 2023 and lasted throughout the last season. While Packers are one of the teams that stopped the eagles at “Push Tush Push”, it became mainly the automatic first bottom or platform for the role and philadelphia.
Even Packers entered the act, using Tucker Kraft as a playmaker on their own Green Bay game. He had 5 out of 5 (including playoffs) on the tricks in 2024.
No team found a consistently effective game strategy.
Packers will be discussed and voted during the annual league meeting at the end of next month.
The question is: Should the league prohibit art or should teams work harder to find a way to stop it? It is simple to argue in a match such as football that the solution should be found on the pitch in autumn, not in the league conference room in March.
