Tush push thoughts
- Thread starter brumdog44
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It should be illegal. A defender can't push another defender so why can an offensive player? Half of the time Hurt's feet aren't even on the ground. He's literally being lifted by the TE and RB behind him.
GreenMts
Seasoned Veteran
This . More often than not Hurts was pushed / picked up over the scrum at the line without his feet touching the ground. Philly is good at this - no doubt and shouldn't be penalized for being better than rest of league. But you can't catapult players, jump off players, drag, etc. Pushing used to be illegal and considered aiding the runner. NFL changed that back in 2005. I see no reason not to turn the clock back in the name of player safety or just from the sense that aiding the runner was never ok on principle. The rules committee takes the safety issue up for everything else. Why not for this?
GreenMts
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Not sure it is a loophole. It's straight up allowed. I get your point though.
CaptDolphins
Active Roster
Look. It a legal play and i wished we had it in our "arsenal". I hate it when its used against us but its up to the defense to figure out how to stop it. The wildcat was killing teams till defense adjusted
CaptDolphins
Active Roster
This
If you had to pick one play that beat us, it was this one. They ran it 4 times and converted every time mostly leading to points.
What would stop the defense in a goal to go situation from just teeing off on a o lineman before the snap on multiple successive plays? Defensive offsides -half the distance to the goal - so what. Just punish the offensive linemen. Maybe get them to retaliate and move them back 15 yards.
You make them think about it and pay for it.
You make them think about it and pay for it.
They have 350 pound linemen back there. I suggest as a counter, the defense puts a big ass scrub DT in the next play. Destroy the QB on a late hit. Be happy to roll with the 15 yards with the warning from Wilkins to our opponents’s center..”next time y’all try that rugby crap, we’ll return the favor again.
Giants v Bills, Bills did the tush push. No whistle to end the play till after 10 seconds, Allen was finally pushed into the end zone. I rewound and counted. Yet RB will struggle for a yard and they blow the play dead.
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Brotherly Shove.
For now, seeing as the NFL sees it works against the Dolphins, they will do their best to keep allowing it to be done until it becomes a problem to one of their other teams, or injuries start happening to other teams not Dolphins.
dcm
Starter
It seems like they get 2-3 yards per attempt. The NFL will only ban it if some team (Eagles) start tush pushing on 1st-2nd-3rd- and get a first down on 4 straight tush pushes.
From the sound of Kelce after the game, this play takes a toll on the linemen. I wonder if on the snap all of our d-line could grab the back of the helmets of their linemen and shove their head down and throw them forward. Then that just leaves Hurts being shoved by the TE and RB and you could really get a shot at him since he is on top of the O-line and not down.
I think it is a garbage play.
It was called “Assisting the Runner” and illegal until 2005 when they changed the rule to allow pushing a runner forward. Pulling or carrying a runner forward is still not allowed.
It was called “Assisting the Runner” and illegal until 2005 when they changed the rule to allow pushing a runner forward. Pulling or carrying a runner forward is still not allowed.