INDIANAPOLIS — Packers normal supervisor Brian Gutekunst helps the bid to finish the rugby-style QB sneak made in style by the Philadelphia Eagles, generally known as the Tush Push.
The Packers had been outed because the group who made the proposed guidelines change for consideration by the NFL’s Competitors Committee.
“We’re not very profitable towards it, I do know that,” Gutekunst stated Tuesday on the NFL Scouting Mix. “To be sincere with you, I have not put a lot thought into it. It has been round for some time, we have used it in several fashions with our tight finish, so once more, I believe there can be a variety of discussions about it. I’ve obtained to take a look at a few of the data so far as harm charges, issues like that, to see. However we’ll see.”
Falcons head coach Raheem Morris stated you possibly can depend Atlanta as one of many different anti-tush push votes wanted for the rule to take impact. At the very least 24 groups would wish to help the decision.
“I believed it ought to’ve been unlawful three years in the past,” Morris stated. “The Tush Push play, I’ve simply by no means been a giant fan. There’s simply no different play in our sport the place you possibly can completely get behind someone and push them, pull them off. I by no means actually understood why that was authorized. I will positively be a type of guys voting towards it.”
Greater than half of Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts’ 55 profession regular-season speeding touchdowns reached the tip zone from the tight, rugby-like formation with working backs angled close to Hurts to assist shove him over the aim line on the snap. Final season, the Buffalo Payments and Baltimore Ravens ran variations of the identical play.
NFL government vice chairman of soccer operations Troy Vincent, who spent a part of his profession with the Eagles, confirmed the proposal was made.
“The membership proposal is, ‘We have to make some changes to that. Is {that a} viable soccer play?'” Vincent stated.
–Jeff Reynolds, Discipline Stage Media