Sean McVay could help ban the tush push this week
Sean McVay, a member of the NFL’s competition committee in addition to being the head coach of the L.A. Rams, wishes that the “tush push” was never allowed in the first place. Though the head coach — who lost to the Eagles in the divisional round of the playoffs last season en route to Philadelphia winning the Super Bowl with help from the tush push — doesn’t want to look like a “hater”, he says that the play doesn’t belong in the NFL.
The NFL could change some rules this week that would effectively ban the tush push as we know it. McVay said as much in an interview with PFT’s Mike Florio on Monday:
“I don’t believe in taking something out because they do it better than anybody else and I told (the Eagles) that on Sunday. What I don’t like is the optics of that play. It loos like a rugby scrum and there are some health and safety things which those things exist in short yardage and goal line situations as well. So I’m kind of conflicted because you don’t want to be a hater because they do it better than anybody else. So I don’t agree with that, but I also wish that we didn’t let the play in in the first place. In regards to the optics of what it loos like, it doesn’t look like football to me. (They Eagles) understood it, but obviously you know where they stand on that.”
The annual NFL owners meeting is this week and they will discuss several key rule changes for next season, including how to call the tush push, and a ban of some level seems imminent.
Which, if it happens, will definitely lead to Sean McVay being called a hater.