The Tush Push Conundrum - The NFL Scrum

[TUM301]

Sooner or later if they allow a team to do everything except maybe carry the QB forward, a defensive player is going to launch himself over the lines and simply blast the QB penalty be damned.

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Originally Posted by TUM301

Sooner or later if they allow a team to do everything except maybe carry the QB forward, a defensive player is going to launch himself over the lines and simply blast the QB penalty be damned.

That's more or less what happened in the Commanders / Eagles game. Washington knew they were going to run the push and they purposely tried jumping the snap to compensate. The refs then announced that they have the power to issue a score if they didn't line up properly.

The Bills used the same play over and over again in the same game and weren't successful. It can be stopped.