An Unnamed Team, And Also The Biggest Cowards In The NFL, Put In A Proposal To Ban The Tush Push Yet Again
Lauren Leigh Bacho. Getty Images.All I have for this "unnamed team" is three simple words.
This isn't the first time that a team has tried to get the Tush Push banned, and it certainly won't be the last. It's legitimately insane to me how much this play has broken the brains of so many people around football. So many people constantly trying to say shit like "it's just not a football play", as if that actually means anything. They'll bitch and cry until the cows come home about the idea that the Tush Push doesn't require any skill.
Yet year after year, all we see is that there are 31 other teams around the league who can't execute the play even remotely close to the same level of success as the Eagles do. Year after year, the idea that the Tush Push isn't a skilled play is rebutted and refuted and rebuked. I don't know how many more times the Eagles need to say that if it was so easy to pull off, that everybody would do it.
But they can't. Because they don't have a general manager who puts together the greatest collection of talent on the offensive line the game has ever seen. Because they don't have the best offensive line coach in the history of football with Jeff Stoutland. Because they don't have a quarterback who can squat 5 million pounds. And because they don't have a group of 11 dudes who all buy into the play and make it a part of their identity.
The Eagles have never once said that other teams can't take the Tush Push from them. It's a copycat league, and the fact that nobody has been able to replicate it so far is the most telling sign that teams don't think the play is an unfair advantage, they are just pissed off that they can't execute it.
But if your team is going to be a little bitch about it and propose to ban the play, the least you can do is slap your name on there. Don't go ducking under the cover as an "unnamed team". It seems like the Packers are taking claim for this one, so at least Mark Murphy is telling the world that he's both a brain dead idiot and a bitch.
Again, I would just love to see teams start to embrace the tush push. Start to understand it, start to run it yourself, and really commit to it. But again, that would require a competent owner to hire a competent GM to hire competent coaches to teach up competent players. None of which the Packers seem to have.