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Tush Push/Brotherly Shove/Rugby Scrums


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Change in the offseason…Pushing QB & any other ball carrier  

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  1. 1. Does NFL make the Brotherly Shove illegal?

  2. 2. Does the NFL make the Rugby Style Scrum(push) to assist any ball carrier illegal?



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This exposes the inconsistency of the NFL.  Every year it seems, there is one more thing taken away from the defenses or special teams in the name of "safety".   They are now talking about banning a waist tackle next year and a Washington Commanders player got a 15 yard roughing the passer penalty for sacking Mac Jones two weeks ago. 

 

Meanwhile on the offensive side, this actual dangerous play that comes from the leather helmet era not only gets overlooked, but gets a cutesy name and a bunch of excited comments from the announcers. 

 

There are more injuries now than ever, so these changes made on defense are not about safety, they are about profit and creating the narrative for the juggernaut offenses and who will be the next GOAT at QB. 

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16 hours ago, peterpan said:

Maybe if it’s 4th and 1 they’ll just give the O a first down 

 

Like when putting in golf with you buddies, and you pick up your ball because it's close enough. 

 

15 hours ago, Rc2catch said:

I feel like defenses are already so hindered. If defenses cannot push them back because of forward progress I feel it should be the same the other way around. 
I don’t care about the tush push, Philly don’t even need it. Ban it tomorrow they still probably convert over 90% and it’s not like anyone else is having that much success doing it. 

 

I wondered about that, if defenses could do their own "reverse tush push" into the offensive line when they are trying to push tush.  

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17 minutes ago, chongli said:

Buffalo was the beneficiary of this call:

 

 

I remember that game and play.

God I miss watching players like Bruce and Talley!  It just doesn't feel like the same game now.

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There was a good video someone posted a while back that broke down Philly's version tush push.  The key to the whole thing was not the push, but rather the three person wedge the left three OL made at the snap, outside guys pinning their shoulder pads to the middle guy and them all moving as one.  You could outlaw the push and I don't think it would affect the success of the Philly version hardly at all

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1 hour ago, boyst said:

It'd be so fun to have a lineman pickup a small back (Singletary) and carry him then throw him further when he starts to go down. 

 

 

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