Atlanta Falcons firmly against Tush Push, quoting injury concerns

One of the most notorious pieces of the NFL, the Philadelphia Eagles-Motivated “Tush Push”, may be music for the ears of Atlanta Falcon's head coach Raheem Morris.

NFL owners will vote this week at the Spring League meetings about the future of the Tush -Push, which will take place in Minneapolis on Tuesday and Wednesday. The league initially submitted the vote on the TUSH thrust after it was officially proposed at the owners' meetings on April 1 in Palm Beach, Florida.

While the preliminary, unofficial votes showed that teams are divided, Morris spoke transparently against the piece, which includes teammates that drive the quarterback in short brand situations.

“Forget the Tush thrust,” said Morris on April 1st with a smile. “Nobody wants the thing in the game. I said (Eagles head coach Nick) Sirianni (on March 31), 'Man, he's out.'”

Morris added that he likes to play openly with Sirianni because of the play, but he was serious about the future of Tush Push in sport.

“I don't like the piece because I had to try to stop it,” said Morris. “And for me to be ready to push someone to another person, which could possibly happen, I don't like it. I was really loud about it.”

Morris admitted that he did not know the exact answer to the defense of the Tush -Push, since no team stopped her with sufficient success rate. The teams tried to jump over the top of the head coach of Washington commanders, Dan Quinn, and to find the idea of ​​Bear Crawling when asked.

The piece itself, said Morris three times, was awesome -and led to three Eagles assistants who landed Head Coaching jobs. In 2023, the offensive coordinator Shane Steichen and the defense coordinator Jonathan Gannon were hired by the Indianapolis Colts and Arizona Cardinals for head coaches, while the New Orleans Saints hired the offensive coordinator Kellen Moore this spring.

Philadelphia did an enormous job to carry out the piece. Morris has no concerns. It is only the proportion of injury that worries him.

“I'm just afraid of the worst in the play,” said Morris. “And I don't really like the piece.”

Morris wants to avoid that a player pushes a different “U -boat” stow that he believes that he creates the risk of “a catastrophic injury that I don't really think is necessary”.

But if the Tush Push remains prohibited, Morris and his employees have to take it into account.

“I think they leave people no choice,” said Morris. “I just don't like the piece.”

The time will show whether enough NFL owners agree.