The full list of playing rule proposals was released by the NFL this week and there was a notable omission. Nothing about the Tush Push. A year after the Green Bay Packers’ proposal to ban the Eagles’ signature play gained enough steam that it eventually failed by just two votes, there’s no such proposal ahead of the NFL owners meetings in 2026. So is this finally the end of the debate? “I don’t know that it’s the end of the debate, because I think there’s still people that are concerned with the whole pushing element,” Competition Committee chairman Rich McKay said on a national conference call Wednesday. “But I would say to you that, just like last year I told you – there was no Competition Committee proposal last year on the Tush Push, there was no proposal the year before on that. And over the years, we’ve now seen that the Tush Push is going down. The percentage of, or I should say the number of plays it’s being used on, is going down. The success rate on the traditional sneak is above the Tush Push success rate. “So, I just think there’s less talk about it within the football community, and there was no proposal on the table to put anything in this year to deal with that. I think that there’s a position in there we take about open field and pushing and pulling – it’s in there just about the whistle and making sure that we’re as consistent as we can be in that moment, but not directed to the Tush Push.” This year’s NFL owners meetings begin in Phoenix on Sunday and it’ll feel weird to not be talking about the Tush Push. Because last year in Palm Beach, Florida, the play was the talk of the event. The vote was actually tabled during those meetings at the end of March last year before the proposal eventually failed in May. Based on reports around this time last year, there was a straw pole conducted that stood at 16-16 and any proposal would need 24 votes to pass. While the initial proposal from the Packers focused on player safety, McKay later admitted that the discussion in the room in Palm Beach ventured away from player safety into aesthetics. At the conclusion of last year’s owners meetings, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie fired back at Tush Push detractors, pushing back on the idea that the play was unsafe and the thought that it didn’t look like a football play. By the time the eventual vote happened in May, the Tush Push was saved by a vote of 22-10 — two votes shy of banning the play. Just one of the Eagles’ 2025 opponents (the Lions) voted with them. It’s worth noting — coincidentally? — that the Eagles were not nearly as successful with the play last season. In their Super Bowl season in 2024, the Eagles converted on over 81% of their Tush Pushes. They were down to 63.6% in 2025. The Eagles would like to get that play back on track in 2026. They’ll at least have that opportunity. “I think there’s some things that teams did this year that they did a good job of being able to stop it,” head coach Nick Sirianni said at the combine. “We gotta get back to being able to, we either have to get back to being able to be as dominant as we were at it, or we find new avenues to be able to convert on third down or in the red zone. “And so, that’s the fun part about offseason is to be able to go through those processes. You go through them during the season as well. And I think you saw us do some cool things off of it, and you still want to be able to do them.” ...read more read less