Green Bay Packers will have tushed out of the NFL, but there are two other rule changes that will be voted on, announced the league’s football operation department on Wednesday.
It was reported that Packers was the team who sent a formal proposal to ban the piece, as Philadelphia Eagles has made famous.
But it is official now after football operations made it known that Packers wants to change Rule 12, Section 1.
Packers’ official rule change proposal would “ban an offensive player from pushing to a teammate who was set up directly behind the snapper and receiving Snap, immediately at Snap.”
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Eagles runs tush -push during a game against Atlanta Falcons September 16, 2024 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. (Terence Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
The proposal also states that a penalty will be assessed on any offensive player who violates the rule. Turh Push was popularized by Eagles during the campaign in 2022. Green Bay saw the last season, and Eagles used it several times in their playoff matchup on the way to win the Super Bowl.
But Packers wasn’t the only team looking for changes in 2025.
The second of three proposed rule changes was from the Detroit Lions, who wish to see Rule 8, Section 4, changed “to eliminate an automatically down first as a penalty imposed on the defensive possession and illegal contact.”
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The current rule of illegal contact and defensive possession is a loss of five meters and an automatic first down, and the Lions say it is too steep punishment.
Lombardi Trophy-winning Eagles seems to “adjust the rules after the season and the regular season over time by giving both teams an opportunity to possess the ball regardless of the result of the first possession, subject to a 15-minute overtime period during the regular season.”
Detroit Lion’s main coach Dan Campbell is watching Jacksonville Jaguars during the second half of a game 17 November 2024 in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
The overtime rule was long discussed before the NFL finally changed it to give both teams a chance to have only a possession in the playoffs. The regular season has the old rules that say a touchdown of the team first in possession of the football ends the game, giving the opponent no chance of returning.
Lions are also looking for two statutes for the 2025 season at the annual league meeting. They want better grafting for Wild-Card team.
They suggest that the structure of the playoff podning change to allow Wild-Card teams with better records than division masters to be poded higher in the playoffs. Regardless of the record, the four division winners in each conference get a home match to begin the playoffs.
Some Wild-Card teams end with better records than their opponents in the Wild-Card round.
Detroit Lion’s main coach Dan Campbell talks with the media after a game against Jacksonville Jaguars in Detroit November 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
By 2024, the Minnesota Vikings went 14-3 during the regular season and had to travel to meet Los Angeles Rams, winners of NFC South at 10-7, on the road. The Vikings lost 27-9 in the Wild-Card round. Packers also had a better record than Rams of 11-6, but was the seventh seed.
All of these changes will be voted on during the annual meeting beginning March 30.
