Tush Push ban on agenda at NFL league meetings. It’s time to get rid of this play. | Schad

It’s time to ban the Tush Push.

And the NFL may be smartly moving in that direction.

The NFL competition committee released Wednesday a proposed rules change that would PROHIBIT an offensive player from PUSHING a teammate who was lined up directly behind the snapper and received the snap, immediately at the snap.

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Thank goodness for the common sense emanating from Green Bay, Wisconsin.

(The Packers officially proposed this rules change. There is absolutely no guarantee it will receive enough team votes to pass. But we can hope.)

Many Eagles fans are outraged with this scribe for repeatedly banging the drum against the Tush Push. They take it personally. It’s not personal.

I love the game and want to see the league stop a play that’s hurting it.

NFL Tush Push: Ban of Eagles specialty to be discussed

Very simply, here is why the Tush Push should be banned, immediately (it will be discussed at the upcoming league meetings in West Palm Beach):

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1. It’s bad for the game. It is a play that is not in the best interest of the game because optically it is terrible and surely the commissioner and television executives alike view it as boring, too.

2. It’s a non-competitive play. It’s successful at too high a rate. That’s exactly why the extra point distance was moved back in recent years. It was too easy. It became monotonous.

3. Former Eagles center Jason Kelce has discussed the “grueling nature” of the play on his body. Kelce also defends the play, suggesting one can get hurt on any play. But potential injuries and toll on the human body are key factors the league must strongly consider here.

4. Pushing teammates is not in the best interest of players or the game. That’s exactly why a past rules change was put into place prohibiting defensive players from pushing their own teammates into the offensive formation during field goal and extra point attempts.

Things change. Kudos to the Eagles for exploiting a rules loophole that must now be closed.

Rules are changed in the best interest of the game all the time.

NFL Tush Push Ban: Smartly, to be considered

Think about major league baseball banning the infield shift when it became a problem.

Think about the national hockey league removing a ban on the two-line pass.

Think about the national basketball association’s move to ban hand checking.

It’s time.

The Tush Push had a nice run.

It should be brief and it should be banned and I can think of no place better to do it than those meetings next week in West Palm Beach.

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