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The Eagles have applied for a trademark for “Brotherly Shove.” The question is: Will the play remain legal beyond this season?
The quarterback push play, which some call the tush push, drew some pushback after last season when the Eagles converted on 37 of the 41 times they ran it. The Competition Committee reviewed it and discussed it during the offseason but didn’t make a rule proposal to ban it.
The league, though, continues to look at it.
“There’ll be more data. Whether there’s injuries or not, there will be success rates; there will be teams that will have an opinion,” McKay said, via Rob Maaddi of the Associated Press. “Last year, we did talk about it a lot. There were enough teams to say it’s one year; let’s see it, and leave it alone. So we did, and I’m sure it’ll be back again. But I just don’t want to get in the business of predicting because I really don’t know what the outcome will be. I do know it will be talked about.”
The quarterback push play, which some call the tush push, drew some pushback after last season when the Eagles converted on 37 of the 41 times they ran it. The Competition Committee reviewed it and discussed it during the offseason but didn’t make a rule proposal to ban it.
The league, though, continues to look at it.
“There’ll be more data. Whether there’s injuries or not, there will be success rates; there will be teams that will have an opinion,” McKay said, via Rob Maaddi of the Associated Press. “Last year, we did talk about it a lot. There were enough teams to say it’s one year; let’s see it, and leave it alone. So we did, and I’m sure it’ll be back again. But I just don’t want to get in the business of predicting because I really don’t know what the outcome will be. I do know it will be talked about.”