The NFL considered significant rule changes, including Green Bay’s proposal to ban the tush push, a controversial play made famous by the Eagles. Detroit also submitted key proposals, including changes to playoff seeding and eliminating automatic first downs for defensive holding. The Lions also pushed for wild-card teams with better records to be seeded higher than division winners. Philadelphia, meanwhile, advocated for postseason and regular season overtime rules to align.
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00:00Glad they did because I thought the first season was really interesting.
00:17We got overtime, we got tush push, and automatic first downs.
00:22And playoff seeding change.
00:24So we have four new rule proposals that were thrown out there by three teams, Eagles, Packers,
00:30and Lions threw these out.
00:31Let's start with the one closest to home, and that was the Packers wanting to ban the
00:38tush push.
00:39And they say they want to ban a teammate from lining up directly behind the snapper at the
00:45time that they received the snap and allowing you to push them through.
00:53I don't know that this gets banned.
00:55It's probably not going to go through, but I like the way they wrote the rule.
00:59This has been my issue with it.
01:02Don't have a tug-of-war match.
01:04Don't allow two or three people to shove the quarterback from behind.
01:08As soon as the running back touches the quarterback, it's a 10-yard flag.
01:11Here's the way it's written.
01:12No offensive player may immediately at the snap push or throw his body against the teammate
01:19who was lined up directly behind the snapper and received the snap to aid him in an attempt
01:24to gain yardage.
01:25If you push the quarterback forward on a sneak, it becomes a 10-yard penalty.
01:30Totally good with it.
01:31And like you said, I think the language is perfect.
01:34The language on how you're banning this is going to be important, because that's what
01:37people freak out about.
01:39So I think the way they worded it, great.
01:41Mark Murphy, president of the Packers, American University alumnus, as I discovered yesterday,
01:48he's not even on the list.
01:49No, because he's with the Packers and he only got one Super Bowl for Rodgers in his career.
01:52So no, he's not included.
01:55But I think that the language of this is perfect.
01:58And the biggest problem is going to be if you're the Eagles or anybody else, you're
02:02going to say, here's my counter, and you're going to throw up the three sneaks that Josh
02:05Allen couldn't get.
02:06You go, it's clearly not that easy.
02:08Right.
02:09So that's going to need 24 yes votes, but no one thinks that is going to happen.
02:13But I'm immediately signing off on that.
02:15So one for one rule change for me.
02:18Next one.
02:19Philadelphia to align the postseason and regular season overtime rules by granting both teams
02:25an opportunity to possess the ball regardless of the outcome of the first possession subject
02:33to a 15 minute overtime period in the regular season in I'm cool with it.
02:39I'm in fine with it.
02:40I think they got to have it.
02:41I think you got to have you know, where now games are too important to come down to a
02:46coin flip.
02:47Parity is too close.
02:48And I don't like the 10 minute overtime because there's some of these ones where somebody
02:52old like methodically move the ball down.
02:54It's like, all right, well, we have two and a half minutes left now after that score.
02:58Play a normal quarter.
02:59Yep.
03:00And we saw we saw this year it was the opener was Rams Detroit and Detroit got the ball.
03:06They ran the ball on every single play.
03:09Yeah.
03:10Got the clock down.
03:11Basically ran out the quarter on every single play in the overtime they ran.