The NFL hosted a league-wide meeting this week, and while the Philadelphia Eagles’ controversial tush push play was not on the docket, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones believes it will be come the offseason.
Jones spoke with Jori Epstein, a senior reporter with Yahoo Sports, about the issue on Thursday.
“Only my opinion, but I think yes, it will be,” Jones said. “And 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's one that probably has enough criticism that it will come up again. I think it probably will come up for a vote.”
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ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Sep. 20 that there is no guarantee the NFL governors will vote again next offseason to ban the play after it fell two votes shy of the 24-vote tally (75 percent) required for it to pass.
“League sources told ESPN that there are no assurances that the tush push issue will be brought up for conversation or a vote by the NFL this offseason,” Schefter wrote. “One source told ESPN that, after the hotly contested conversation the play raised last offseason and the emotions it aroused, he believes the issue needs to be tabled for a year before it could be raised again.”
However, Schefter’s report was over a month ago, and Epstein wrote Thursday that there exists “a growing expectation that a vote to ban the tush push will again reach the tables of NFL team owners come spring.”
It was the Green Bay Packers that originally brought forth the proposal to ban the play, which the Eagles have mastered and which has made them nearly unstoppable in short-yardage situations on third-down and fourth-down over the last three and a half seasons. Jones voted along with the Packers representation and 20 other teams to abolish the play in May.
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