NFL

The nfl sucks ass

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!

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.

Anyone who actually saw those plays knows they were not offsides, especially the second one. It was egregious.

Isn’t the real story that the Packers aren’t showing the team the weekly video that covers the points of emphasis or aren’t having the position coaches communicator the relevant points to the players?

I think the Green Bay Packers are trying to phase out scoring points by lining up offsides, personally

Try to ban a play that only one team can pull off is stupid. Watched multiple teams try it and fail..

I dont know why the NFL has such a hard on for altering the game of football

"You know what's more fun than watching an offense sustain a drive? Penalties and punts" - the league office, apparently

Solution for this is to bench the offending OL man the entire game. Offensive line holding calls and offside penalties can murder any cadence or rhythm that may be fostering on any drive to the end zone. This has worked wonders for me in Madden for players that have horrible discipline.

They've called offsides on the Eagles twice this year on our guards, and both times it was incorrect because the hands they were seeing were actually Kelce's

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

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

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.

Nobody in here has any videos of the "offside that wasn't offside" calls people keep talking about? Can't find them.

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.

They're doing a better job enforcing a rule?

Oh no!

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.

Sneaky.

Philly could win the super Bowl running the tush push every other play

And what does his father think? Former OT Jon Runyan Sr. is currently an appeals officer for the NFL and conduct/discipline.

“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