Palm Beach, Florida – While the debate on rules of rules was approaching this week, the NFL competition committee recognized an elephant in the room. He knew that a Proposal to prohibit the tash push was ready to debate.
The members of the Committee also knew the allegations of conspiracy that could follow.
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After all, Tash's push represented only 0.28% of the games last season, By ESPN data. The Bills of the Philadelphia and Buffalo Eagles have organized the game more in the last three seasons than the other combined teams.
Was it a blow to the defending champion of the Super Bowl Eagles? Why change this play?
It turned out to be difficult to pass a proposal prohibiting TUS's thrust based on a competitive or data (actually nonexistent). But the value of entertainment? This is something that the owner of the Cowboys team, Jerry Jones, seems to think. (Grant Thomas / Yahoo Sports)
This concern strongly influenced Tuesday Decision to file the proposal of Green Bay Packers To eliminate the thrust or help the ball holder. A vote was not simply held and failed. Instead, the vote was delayed to explore the additional language of the rules book. Team representatives should receive a broader and less targeted change proposal during a meeting from May 20 to 21 in Minneapolis.
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Increasingly, the NFL tends to reintroduce a pre-2004 rule which prohibits eliminating all the thrusts and the shooting of a bullet holder. The result is Eliminate Tash push but do it in a range considered to be fairer by some.
And yet: when the competition committee believes “no one likes” the link with the eagles and bills, Jerry Jones does not seem to share their concern.
Instead, the Owner and CEO of the Cowboys team expressed support for the elimination of a tactic on the basis of the domination of a team.
“The reason why we got the game in 2 points is (we) said that the additional point alone gave it a fairly exciting kick,” Jones told Yahoo Sports. “It reminded me how these things have evolved.
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“It was more from the point of view of entertainment – which from my point of view, it is a good discussion. The fact that fans could be interested in what we do with them. We do things, and if someone does it very well or get an advantage, we could make defensive and offensive adjustments.
“It's the discussion.”
Several teams are concerned about the risks of overwhelming success of the opponent
Jones has long been at the forefront of the priority of entertainment value, and therefore of the Gain potential of the NFL.
His reasoning also highlights a new light on the comments of February 1 of the president of the Packers, Mark Murphy, explaining what ultimately became the proposal for the change of rule of the team.
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“I'm not a fan of this play,” Murphy wrote in a Q&R on the team's website. “There is no skill involved and it is almost an automatic first on the games of a courtyard or less …
“The game is bad for the match, and we should come back to ban the runner's push.”
The use by Murphy of the word “automatic” has annoyed the head coach of the Eagles Nick Sirianni, who called him “a little insulting”. But Jones thinks that the change of rules due to entertainment ends is a fair game, and that one or two overwhelming successes of the teams in a region does not maximize the entertainment value in a league which claims to aim for parity.
“They refer to priority when you had games that have succeeded in the ball or the other and it was mainly, in my mind, a discussion of what we did when a room started to become popular,” Jones told Yahoo Sports shortly after the vote. “It is the nature of how the game has evolved that when something creates a competitive imbalance or a competitive problem, other clubs do or check it.”
The Eagles and Bills have converted for a first test or a touchdown on 87% of Tash Push has been playing in the past three years, By ESPN dataCompared to the rest of the clip of 71% of the league.
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Entertainment problems could help packers and other defenders of the push ban to successfully remove the game tactics.
On the one hand, eliminate the risks of tash push a slippery slope of penalization teams for creativity and innovation. On the other hand, the objective of entertainment can help to force the teams who want to change the rule but cannot justify relying on a set of data that suggests that the risk of injury is not conclusive to the worst and negligible.
The Director General of Rams, the SNEADs, acknowledged on Monday that “at the moment there is not enough data to say in one way or another”, that the Tash push presents a risk of disproportionate injury.
But the perspective of the room?
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“It would be interesting if everyone was starting to make Tash push and football became rugby and you just hit your way … Throughout the field,” Snead told Yahoo Sports. “Now maybe people have stopped looking at and you have to cut it because it's not as entertaining.
“You never know how it changes.”
What is the next step for the TUSH push?
In public, managers of the League and the Competition Committee do not encourage to eliminate a part on the basis of a competitive imbalance.
Supporters send more message on the integrity of the game and medical considerations.
The president of the NFL Competition Committee Rich McKay said that security, football history and the desire to eliminate a game in attack that the defenders could not legally reproduce on defense were the three levels of debate. McKay and the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell cited hypothetical injury problems when the proven data ended.
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“We have very little data, but beyond the data, there is also the injury mechanism we are studying, this type of thing that leads us to show the risk involved in a particular game or a particular tackle,” said Goodell. “There are a lot of pieces where you see someone shooting or pushing someone who is not in the tash push formation which, I think, presents an increased risk of injury.”
The league rules session quickly progressed on several proposals but lasted “30-40 minutes,” said McKay, reaching a debate on Tash.
“Many discussions about it,” said McKay. “Many teams had a lot of views.”
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The most likely result of several sources in the league: club representatives vote in May to return to the pre-2004 language prohibiting not pushing or shooting ball carriers.
The rule was deleted due to the concern that civil servants could not succeed and the officer consistently on the ground. At least some in the league office believe that 20 years of advances in the Commission, in particular the introduction of technological aid, to give a scale in favor of the prohibition of the room.
The proposal will need at least 24 of the 32 clubs to succeed.
But competing opinions will count anyway. Packers and defenders do not count on clubs to seek the passage of rules for the same reason – they just need the required number of clubs to approve.
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A rule could adopt because some clubs want to reduce the advantage of Philadelphia; Others question the authenticity of the game to the game; Others are concerned about the risk of injury; And even more – like Jones – the domination of concern will be a bore.
“The committee will examine (everything),” said Goodell, “and will return in May with a proposal.”