To Push or Not to Push?

Several of the expected and proposed rule changes will affect the Philadelphia Eagles, but none more so than an attempt to outlaw a signature play.

On the latest episode of “Inside The Birds,” Adam Caplan and Geoff Mosher went over the 2025 rule changes.

GETTY IMAGES: The ‘tush push’ is trending towards being outlawed by the NFL.

Overtime

Adam Caplan: “The Eagles’ proposal was to make the regular season rules the same as overtime. Both teams now in overtime in the regular season will be able to get the ball regardless of the outcome of the first possession. In the regular season, overtime will still be 10 minutes and overtime will be 15 minutes in the postseason.”

Geoff Mosher: “It gives the coin toss winner the advantage, assuming you take the ball. If you still score that touchdown first, even though you have to be on defense [after], the fact that it’s only a 10-minute quarter, if you put together a 13, 14 play drive and take six-and-a-half minutes off the clock, now you have made that other team have to score that touchdown in far less time than you had to score the touchdown.”

Expanded Replay

Caplan: “This is called replay assist, which is phenomenal. It’s very quick, it allows the officials to get it right and have things overruled that are considered objective like facemask [penalties].”

Mosher: “What I think is still left unsettled…it can only happen when a flag is thrown. There are still a part of this game, and we see this when Jalen Hurts runs a lot, they can’t reverse that.”

Legal Tampering

Caplan: “The Steelers proposed during the legal tampering period…it’s a one-year trial, clubs can have Zoom or Microsoft Teams or phone call with up to five unrestricted free agents and then they can book travel if you agree with those terms for the first 48 hours. Before, you were not allowed to talk to the player, you could only do it with the agent.”

Brotherly Shove

Caplan: “If it’s not banned in May, it’s going to get banned. May is the last time it can happen before the season, then they have to wait until next March.”

Mosher: “Ever since it started, I have been saying I think this play is going to be outlawed…some teams have done a lousy job presenting a better argument for why it should be outlawed.”

– Benjamin Paul is a staff writer for InsideTheBirds.com.