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Quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) and the Philadelphia Eagles often use the play broadly referred to as “the tush push” to attain touchdowns within the pink zone. File Photograph by Bonnie Money/UPI | License Photo
March 19 (UPI) — NFL workforce homeowners will think about proposals to ban the tush push and for a change to playoff seeding format this low season, the league introduced Wednesday.
The Detroit Lions additionally proposed to eradicate computerized first downs as a penalty imposed for defensive holding and unlawful contact. The Philadelphia Eagles proposed to undertake postseason time beyond regulation guidelines for the common season.
The proposals might be thought-about when NFL workforce homeowners meet for the annual league conferences later this month in Palm Seashore, Fla.
The Packers have been the workforce that proposed a rule to “prohibit an offensive participant from pushing a teammate who was lined up immediately behind the snapper and receives the snap, instantly on the snap,” or the “tush push,” popularized by the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Eagles’ proposal to undertake postseason time beyond regulation guidelines for the common season would grant each groups the chance to own the ball, whatever the final result of the preliminary possession.
The Lions’ proposition would penalize gamers responsible of unlawful contact past the 5-yard zone and defensive holding with a 5-yard penalty as a substitute of an computerized first down.
The Packers’ proposal features a 10-yard penalty for the tush push.
The Lions additionally proposal for present playoff seeding to permit Wild Card groups to be seeded greater than division winners if the Wild Card workforce has a greater regular-season document. Division winners with the convention’s finest document would nonetheless obtain the No. 1 seed. The opposite seeds could be decided by information, as a substitute of contemplating in the event that they gained their division or completed as a Wild Card workforce.
The Pittsburgh Steelers additionally proposed a decision to permit for some direct contact between groups and pending free brokers throughout the three-day negotiating window main into free company.
