The Green Bay Packers have positioned themselves to challenge for a title in the near future. They not only made the playoffs two years in a row under Jordan Love, but they also boosted their win total from nine to eleven during that time. They accomplished so without Love for virtually three games (two due to injury, and he missed almost the entire Week 18 game against the Chicago Bears).
However, it was President Mark Murphy who provided a major update two weeks following the NFL Owners Meeting.
“It’s Really Not Good” Packers President Makes Big Announcement (Breaking)
Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy was a strong supporter of outright outlawing the “Tush Push” play. He believes NFL owners will see the light and vote to prohibit it:
“I think it ended up in a good place,” Murphy said in a one-on-one interview posted on the Packers’ YouTube page on Wednesday last week. “We ended up tabling it, but we had some great debates. We discussed our safety concerns about the play, as well as the play’s style. However, the contact with the league was positive. So it will be tabled. And then we’ll vote on it at the May meeting.
“In 2005, the league eliminated the regulation that prohibited pushing runners. We’re going back to see what language we had in 2004. I am optimistic. I believe there are enough people who view it as detrimental to the game. It’s more of a rugby play than a football play; just go back to the old rules.”
In the end, there’s not much else to say. Despite NFL data indicating contrary, tush push opponents have frequently cited injury danger as their primary justification for banning it. It is not a football play, according to Murphy, who proposed the ban in a rule proposal earlier this year. Whether other owners agree will be
The decision on whether other owners agree will be made in May.
Fans are still reacting to this play:
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