After spending the offseason making an attempt to ban the tush push, the Green Bay Packers now know once they should defend in opposition to it.
On Tuesday, the NFL continued to slowly trickle out video games set for the 2025 common season, and it revealed the Packers and Eagles will meet on “Monday Night time Soccer” in Week 10 (Nov. 10).
That offers the Packers loads of time throughout follow to plot a scheme to cease the Eagles’ short-yardage QB keeper. However that is simpler stated than completed. Per CBS Sports, Philadelphia gained a primary down or landing on 82 p.c of its tush push makes an attempt final season.
In March, the Packers proposed a rule change banning the tush push. It was tabled for future discussion throughout the NFL’s proprietor assembly from March 30-April 2.
Inexperienced Bay ought to most likely spend extra time determining methods to hold Philadelphia out of these conditions altogether by stopping them from third- and fourth-and-1s.
It is going to be an enormous take a look at for the Packers, who misplaced twice to the Eagles final season, together with Week 1 in Brazil and on the street within the wild-card spherical.
Within the two video games, the Eagles scored 56 factors and rushed for 313 yards on 72 carries (4.3 yards per carry).
The Packers had been in any other case sturdy in opposition to the run in 2024, ending seventh in speeding yards allowed (99.7 yards per recreation) and third in yards per try (4).
They weren’t the one crew to wrestle in opposition to the Eagles and operating again Saquon Barkley, who led the NFL with 2,005 speeding yards final season. He had 228 speeding yards on 49 carries and three complete touchdowns in opposition to Inexperienced Bay.
As a lot because the tush push is a thorn of their facet, Barkley is the larger downside. If he repeats final yr’s performances, Inexperienced Bay would possibly need to contemplate a rule banning him subsequent offseason.
