When league meetings began at the end of March, one of the hotly-contested rule changes up for debate was the Philadelphia Eagles' variation of the quarterback sneak called the Tush Push.
Several teams, including the Green Bay Packers who brought forth the rule change after pressure from the league office, wanted to see the play banned for a number of what we would term arbitrary reasons.
And while their initial rule change proposal seemed like the league was going to come down on only Philadelphia, the Packers have quickly updated the rule change as reported by ESPN to make the Tush Push be seen more as a league issue.
"Though the initial language seemingly targeted the Bills and Eagles by specifically seeking to eliminate pushing immediately at the snap, the revised proposal is broader in an effort to entice more teams to vote for the ban," Brooke Pryor wrote. "The revised proposal would return the league to the rule it followed until 2005."
For years, the NFL outlawed offensive linemen pushing ballcarriers forward for extra yards. The rule was changed and cleaner offensive play was brought in because of that.
Now, it seems like the league's only chance to remove the Tush Push is to get rid of that change. If not, the commissioner, and other teams around the league seem to be just more upset over how dominant the Eagles have looked over the years.
But now comes a change in the way the proposal is written.
Maybe it would not have passed with the original wording. Now the rule change has an even better chance today of being shoved through.