“Apparently, they send out a weekly video talking about that,” Runyan said. “Apparently, that was in the weekly video but I had no idea. I didn’t even know they sent out a weekly video on points of emphasis
Bruh
LMFAO there’s sooo much butthurt in this thread. By a lot of teams the eagles beat coincidentally.
It’s very clearly a “point of emphasis”. The only real reason to emphasize that rule all of a sudden is for the refs to make the tush push more difficult and split the difference while the competition committee makes up their mind whether to just ban it.
It was on Runyan though for even giving them a chance to call it after the first one
Seems you might be the only one who read the article here
The only real reason to emphasize that rule all of a sudden is for the refs to make the tush push more difficult
Or, because teams are openly and obviously committing penalties that aren’t getting enforced on these rules in order to gain a competitive advantage. That seems like another “real reason” to emphasize this rule.
People get up in arms as if the NFL changing the rules to influence the way the game is played is unprecedented.
Some stuff is more likely to injure players, so they change the rules. People have more fun watching the NFL all season when the stars are healthy. Maybe you don’t get that wild flying tackle on a QB making a highlight, but you also get 40 more highlights from the QB who isn’t on injured reserve the rest of the year.
Unpopular opinion: just change the rule so all you have to do is wrap up a QB if they’re in the pocket and don’t even tackle them anymore. Aaron Rogers getting injured on drive 1 is boring. I would’ve rather seen him play. Anthony Richardson was electric. I’d rather see him play. Guys like AR would probably still get injured because of how they play, but let QBs be safe from injury in the pocket and just wrap them up.
With the current rules protecting passers, that’s essentially all linemen are doing, anyway. They are just falling down once they wrap them up which is kind of irrelevant. You could still try to whack the ball out of their hand if you wanted and “violently” wrap them up. Just don’t bring them to the ground.
QB sneak? Boring. Just make it against the rules, who cares? lol.
Thank fuck you aren’t in charge of anything then
The pet theory that I’ve been working on, but not yet able to adequately express to my satisfaction, is that the NFL is worried about defenses getting so frustrated that they A: start engaging in dangerous behavior to try and stop it or B: say “fuck it” and take the play off to try and regroup on the next series of downs
So you have the safety concerns, which I think are more legitimate, or some sort of scenario where there’s an unspoken agreement that 3rd and 9 is a gimme and you can see it on the field that both sides are just going through the motions for a play, thus DEVALUAING THE PRODUCT
but who the hell knows, refs might just not be very good at accurately determining if 22 men are lined up perfectly along an axial plane
I think we kind of started to see it happen, Ive definitely noticed more defenses trying to dive over the piles on QB sneaks. The Vikings did it to Purdy and it likely was the play that caused his concussion and we won the game because of it.
I mean the qb getting injured should be a reason that offenses don’t call it every time 🤷🏻♂️
Tbf the QB getting injured is a risk you take when you shove them thru your OL into the DL
refs might just not be very good at accurately determining if 22 men are lined up perfectly along an axial plane
I think this is also likely. It’s not something easy to eyeball.
3rd and 9 is a gimme
Damn the Eagles just keep getting better and better at this thing
Lol fuck, you know what I meant
defenses getting so frustrated that they A: start engaging in dangerous behavior to try
and stop itinjure the QBits less to try and stop it, and more that they know that with QB sneaks of this type that they won’t get called for anything. I’ve seen cheap shots at hurts at an alarming rate on these plays. Luckily he is one of the few that is almost always basically under/between guys so the attempts fail.
Nobody in here has any videos of the “offside that wasn’t offside” calls people keep talking about? Can’t find them.
They’re doing a better job enforcing a rule?
Oh no!
I mean, it’s been kind of obvious. And by kind of, I mean very. Eagles are getting called offsides at least once a game on the tush push now. More than once the offsides wasn’t even called on the right player. More than once they were called offsides while the defense actively had defenders not only in the neutral zone, but with their hand(s) under or past the ball. Truth be told, its cowardly and craven of the NFL to do so while the play continues to be legal. If you’re going to ban it at the next coach’s meeting then do so, but don’t penalize a team for abiding by the actual rules.
We all know he grew up an Eagles fan.
Tbh I’m glad they’re actually enforcing the neutral zone. It’s been a gray area for years.
Next do illegal formation and illegal motion.
If you watched any Ravens games with Gregg Roman as the OC, you’d realize that refs love calling illegal formation and motion
I feel like they’ve done a lot more illegal formation and illegal motion too this year
nbcsports trying real hard to push “tush push” for the Eagles play. They said it three times in the short article.
It is, and always will be, The Brotherly Shove!
Philly could win the super Bowl running the tush push every other play
Our olinemen have said it’s physically exhausting to run that play. I don’t think they could run it every other play.
It’s not a cheat code. It’s technique, strength, and conditioning just like everything else on both sides of the trenches.
The Brotherly Ban!
Woah… at least 1 sideline ref is also super concerned about the OL alignment on field goals too. It isn’t all about QB sneaks.
Sneaky.