Nobody in here has any videos of the “offside that wasn’t offside” calls people keep talking about? Can’t find them.
nbcsports trying real hard to push “tush push” for the Eagles play. They said it three times in the short article.
It is, and always will be, The Brotherly Shove!
NFL: No Fun League
The Brotherly Ban!
The nfl sucks ass
And what does his father think? Former OT Jon Runyan Sr. is currently an appeals officer for the NFL and conduct/discipline.
LMFAO there’s sooo much butthurt in this thread. By a lot of teams the eagles beat coincidentally.
People get up in arms as if the NFL changing the rules to influence the way the game is played is unprecedented.
Some stuff is more likely to injure players, so they change the rules. People have more fun watching the NFL all season when the stars are healthy. Maybe you don’t get that wild flying tackle on a QB making a highlight, but you also get 40 more highlights from the QB who isn’t on injured reserve the rest of the year.
Unpopular opinion: just change the rule so all you have to do is wrap up a QB if they’re in the pocket and don’t even tackle them anymore. Aaron Rogers getting injured on drive 1 is boring. I would’ve rather seen him play. Anthony Richardson was electric. I’d rather see him play. Guys like AR would probably still get injured because of how they play, but let QBs be safe from injury in the pocket and just wrap them up.
With the current rules protecting passers, that’s essentially all linemen are doing, anyway. They are just falling down once they wrap them up which is kind of irrelevant. You could still try to whack the ball out of their hand if you wanted and “violently” wrap them up. Just don’t bring them to the ground.
QB sneak? Boring. Just make it against the rules, who cares? lol.
Thank fuck you aren’t in charge of anything then
The pet theory that I’ve been working on, but not yet able to adequately express to my satisfaction, is that the NFL is worried about defenses getting so frustrated that they A: start engaging in dangerous behavior to try and stop it or B: say “fuck it” and take the play off to try and regroup on the next series of downs
So you have the safety concerns, which I think are more legitimate, or some sort of scenario where there’s an unspoken agreement that 3rd and 9 is a gimme and you can see it on the field that both sides are just going through the motions for a play, thus DEVALUAING THE PRODUCT
but who the hell knows, refs might just not be very good at accurately determining if 22 men are lined up perfectly along an axial plane
3rd and 9 is a gimme
Damn the Eagles just keep getting better and better at this thing
Lol fuck, you know what I meant
refs might just not be very good at accurately determining if 22 men are lined up perfectly along an axial plane
I think this is also likely. It’s not something easy to eyeball.
defenses getting so frustrated that they A: start engaging in dangerous behavior to try
and stop itinjure the QBits less to try and stop it, and more that they know that with QB sneaks of this type that they won’t get called for anything. I’ve seen cheap shots at hurts at an alarming rate on these plays. Luckily he is one of the few that is almost always basically under/between guys so the attempts fail.
I think we kind of started to see it happen, Ive definitely noticed more defenses trying to dive over the piles on QB sneaks. The Vikings did it to Purdy and it likely was the play that caused his concussion and we won the game because of it.
Tbf the QB getting injured is a risk you take when you shove them thru your OL into the DL
I mean the qb getting injured should be a reason that offenses don’t call it every time 🤷🏻♂️
We all know he grew up an Eagles fan.
“Apparently, they send out a weekly video talking about that,” Runyan said. “Apparently, that was in the weekly video but I had no idea. I didn’t even know they sent out a weekly video on points of emphasis
Bruh
I mean, it’s been kind of obvious. And by kind of, I mean very. Eagles are getting called offsides at least once a game on the tush push now. More than once the offsides wasn’t even called on the right player. More than once they were called offsides while the defense actively had defenders not only in the neutral zone, but with their hand(s) under or past the ball. Truth be told, its cowardly and craven of the NFL to do so while the play continues to be legal. If you’re going to ban it at the next coach’s meeting then do so, but don’t penalize a team for abiding by the actual rules.
They’re doing a better job enforcing a rule?
Oh no!
Sneaky.
Anyone who actually saw those plays knows they were not offsides, especially the second one. It was egregious.
The second call he absolutely was. The first was much less clear