{"id":247375,"date":"2025-10-24T00:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247375\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:56:07","slug":"jerry-jones-expects-another-offseason-attack-on-the-tush-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247375\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones expects another offseason attack on the tush push"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the early-season Sunday Splash! reports cautioned against an assumption that there will be another offseason push against the tush push. <\/p>\n

Go ahead and make that assumption.<\/p>\n

As NFL executive V.P. of football operations Troy Vincent said on Thursday\u2019s PFT Live, any team can propose a rule change. And, if no one else does, it sounds as if the Cowboys might.<\/p>\n

At this week\u2019s ownership meetings, Cowboys owner and G.M. Jerry Jones said he believes another tush push-vote is coming.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly my opinion, but I think yes, it will be<\/a>,\u201d Jones told Jori Epstein of Yahoo Sports. \u201cAnd it has to do with, while the merits of it have really been the merits of the play and the concerns have been addressed, you still see that it\u2019s one that probably has enough criticism that it will come up again. I think it probably will come up for a vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May, 22 teams voted to get rid of the play. That\u2019s 68.75 percent of the league. The NFL requires a 75-percent supermajority to change rules. With only two more teams flipping from \u201cno\u201d to \u201cyes,\u201d the tush push will be kaput.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Eagles would still have an effective quarterback sneak, even without the tush push. And, as Vincent agreed, concerns regarding the difficulty of officiating the play will linger. That comes from the front end, where the linemen are often leaving early, not the back end, where the push happens.<\/p>\n

The goalposts have moved multiple times regarding the stated reasons to get rid of the play. In March, it was the risk of serious neck injury. By May, it shifted to aesthetics. Once the officials started missing false starts, it became difficulty to officiate.<\/p>\n

It all comes down, frankly, to how badly the league office wants to get rid of it. And whether two arms can be twisted from \u201cno\u201d to \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the early-season Sunday Splash! reports cautioned against an assumption that there will be another offseason push…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-247375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}