Originally posted by English:
Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
i did notice Lurie was pulling out all the stops to keep the push play. reportedly he made Jason Kelce available to teams to discuss the play. he also lobbied that taking the play out would be harmful for 'safety' reasons. that was also reported. jed probably had enough of listening to his BS.
i'll call it now, we will be seeing philly next season..
Saw that. Mystery to me why banning the push play would be harmful for safety reasons. Anyone got a theory?
lurie is a joker and he wants to keep the play and he'll cook up whatever argument he needs.
i would imagine he views head and neck injury as a consequence of high speed collision. this was a major reason they no longer do old school kickoffs. you get a long runway to build up speed and collide. if you did a pitch play and the safety crashes to do a donte whitner on pierre thomas that's a lights out situation. you don't get lights out on the tush push, cuz there is no build up speed.