PHILADELPHIA — With a vote coming Wednesday that would ban the tush push, a pair of distinguished Philadelphia Eagles gamers downplayed the importance of the assisted quarterback sneak, which has turn out to be a staple of the crew’s offense over the previous few seasons.
“I haven’t got any ideas on it,” huge receiver A.J. Brown mentioned. “It is only one yard.”
Left deal with Jordan Mailata struck an identical tone, saying: “They’re ruling [on] the push? I assume we’ll simply do it with no push.
“When it comes to them banning the tush push, I hate that identify, so I hope they do ban it — it is a silly identify,” Mailata joked.
“However I can not management it, we will not management it, so we do not even fear about it. Proper now, we’re simply putting in our schemes, no matter [offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo] is putting in that day, that is what we’re centered on as a result of worrying about if they’ll ban the tush push or not ain’t going to win us a championship.”
NFL house owners determined to desk a vote on the league assembly in April on the Inexperienced Bay Packers’ preliminary proposal to ban the tush push — a play during which a crew strains up a number of gamers behind the quarterback to push him ahead in short-yardage conditions. The Packers have since submitted a revision of their rule proposal that will extra broadly ban pushing or pulling the ball service anyplace on the sphere.
A vote is predicted Wednesday on the spring assembly in Minneapolis.
“We’ll see the place that goes,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni mentioned. “We’re not ready very lengthy to determine it out. It’ll be public [Wednesday]. And you know the way I really feel about it.”
In February, Sirianni referred to as it “slightly unfair” that some groups are angling to have the play banned as a result of it is extremely profitable for Philadelphia, including that the concept that it is an computerized play is “slightly insulting.”
On the league conferences in April, Eagles CEO Jeffrey Lurie referred to as it a “precision play” that’s efficient for Philly partly due to the crew’s top-end offensive line and quarterback Jalen Hurts, who can squat 600 kilos.
“I do not ever bear in mind a play being banned as a result of a single crew or a couple of groups have been working it successfully. It is a part of what I feel most of us love about soccer is it is a chess match. Let the chess match play out. And if for any cause it does get banned, we’ll attempt to be the easiest at short-yardage conditions. We have got lots of concepts there,” he mentioned.
There was little protection of the play throughout Philadelphia’s media availability Tuesday. Hurts declined to touch upon the subject.
The tush push appeared in solely 0.28% of complete performs final 12 months, in keeping with ESPN Analysis, however the Eagles and Buffalo Payments ran the play extra typically than different groups. The 2 mixed to run 163 pushes previously three seasons, greater than the remainder of the NFL mixed, in keeping with ESPN Analysis.
Not solely did the Eagles and Payments run the play essentially the most typically, however additionally they have been essentially the most profitable. They scored a landing or achieved a primary down on 87% of their tush push makes an attempt, in keeping with ESPN Analysis, whereas the remainder of the league was profitable 71% of the time.
ESPN’s Brooke Pryor contributed to this story.
