ATL - Rodgers to PIT

Post #1161 » by **MickeyDavis** » Wed May 21, 2025 12:46 pm

Post #1162 » by **MickeyDavis** » Wed May 21, 2025 2:13 pm

The Detroit Lions have withdrawn their rule proposal that would have seeded the playoffs by record and not guaranteed division winners a home game.

NFL owners had been set to vote on the proposal at the league's spring meeting on Wednesday.

In the proposal, only the division winner in each conference with the best record would be guaranteed a home playoff game. The rest of the playoff field would have been seeded strictly by record.

In the current format, the NFL's four division winners in each conference are guaranteed a home game, regardless of record.

MVP2110 · Post #1163 » by **MVP2110** » Wed May 21, 2025 2:25 pm

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MVP2110 · Post #1164 » by **MVP2110** » Wed May 21, 2025 2:58 pm

Just realized the 2027 Superbowl falls on Valentine's day.

Post #1165 » by **ReasonablySober** » Wed May 21, 2025 3:24 pm

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Post #1166 » by **ReasonablySober** » Wed May 21, 2025 3:36 pm

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Lame.

Matches Malone · Post #1167 » by **Matches Malone** » Wed May 21, 2025 3:42 pm

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Glad we got to be used as the poster boy for this :roll:

(also they stopped them on this play.)

Matches Malone · Post #1168 » by **Matches Malone** » Wed May 21, 2025 3:49 pm

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raysbookclub · Post #1169 » by **raysbookclub** » Wed May 21, 2025 4:53 pm

I feel like the Pack got Aaron Banks and Anthony Belton to run a good Tush Push themselves.

I remember seeing a play in a highlight video of Belton where he got very impressively low, esp for as big as he is.

Post #1170 » by **MickeyDavis** » Wed May 21, 2025 5:16 pm

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Matches Malone · Post #1171 » by **Matches Malone** » Wed May 21, 2025 6:33 pm

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Mags FTW · Post #1172 » by **Mags FTW** » Wed May 21, 2025 6:37 pm

It's a copycat league. More teams will start doing it, then the league will realize it's not entertaining football, and then it will get banned.

Kerb Hohl · Post #1173 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Wed May 21, 2025 6:41 pm

Mags FTW wrote:It's a copycat league. More teams will start doing it, then the league will realize it's not entertaining football, and then it will get banned.

I think everybody already has their own version of the tush push. I think to the Eagles credit, having a QB that can squat a billion lbs + a very stout interior OL is really the secret sauce.

Even though I don't really like it, I think that is the reason for unstoppable nature of it.

Mags FTW · Post #1174 » by **Mags FTW** » Wed May 21, 2025 6:45 pm

Kerb Hohl wrote:
Mags FTW wrote:It's a copycat league. More teams will start doing it, then the league will realize it's not entertaining football, and then it will get banned.

I think everybody already has their own version of the tush push. I think to the Eagles credit, having a QB that can squat a billion lbs + a very stout interior OL is really the secret sauce.

Even though I don't really like it, I think that is the reason for unstoppable nature of it.

Teams without a QB with Hurts' strength will motion a TE into the backfield like we did once or twice last year with Kraft.

Ryan5UW · Post #1175 » by **Ryan5UW** » Wed May 21, 2025 6:55 pm

Matches Malone wrote:(also they stopped them on this play.)

Pretty sure that's wrong, I don't see anywhere in the play by play that we stopped them. I do see where they converted on one in this same spot on the field though.

TJ_Ford_11 · Post #1176 » by **TJ_Ford_11** » Wed May 21, 2025 7:34 pm

dogswithbeesintheirmouths · Post #1177 » by **dogswithbeesintheirmouths** » Wed May 21, 2025 8:09 pm

If football had always allowed players to push the ball carrier, the game would have developed completely differently. It would have been more like rugby 90 years ago and stayed that way. The reason pushing the QB works now is because it was illegal for so long.

Post #1178 » by **ReasonablySober** » Wed May 21, 2025 8:14 pm

Toward the end of a speech that lasted close to an hour, Lurie made an off-the-cuff analogy. He told the room that regardless of whether the play was banned, it was a "win-win" for the Eagles, adding that it was "like a wet dream for a teenage boy" to create a play that was so successful that the only way for it to be stopped was for it to be banned.

Lurie spoke for several more minutes, adding that whoever voted to ban the play would be taking liability for putting quarterbacks at risk. He criticized NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent for advocating the ban, adding that he had spoken to NFL chief medical officer Allen Sills at length about the play.

After Lurie finished speaking, Vincent chastised the Eagles owner for the "wet dream" comment, specifically for saying it in front of women in the meeting.

Eagles assistant general manager John Ferrari and former Eagles star center Jason Kelce, currently an ESPN analyst, addressed the room next. Kelce said that he would return to the NFL if he could run 60 tush pushes a game.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones asked a few questions, while Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula -- a critic of the tush push -- said his team was good at the play and still supported banning it.

An hour had passed when San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York asked Lurie "how much more s---" he needed to say.

Lurie is such a weirdo.

Mags FTW · Post #1179 » by **Mags FTW** » Wed May 21, 2025 8:40 pm

A lot of these guys are boneheads. Many of them probably voted to keep it because their team is going to add it to their arsenal next year in some way. They will either use the QB or run a version like we ran with Kraft. Then when the season starts they will find out that 20 other teams had this "stroke of genius" to copy Philly.

Post #1180 » by **MickeyDavis** » Wed May 21, 2025 8:50 pm

An hour had passed when San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York asked Lurie "how much more s---" he needed to say.