The Green Bay Packers resubmitted a revised proposal on Monday, May 19, to ban the “tush push. ” This will prohibit the pushing or pulling ball carriers anywhere on the field, reported by Ari Meirov. 

The league is expected to vote sometime this week on the controversial play that the Philadelphia Eagles have perfected and that no one seems to stop. The last time the league voted on the matter, the vote count was 50/50, with 16 voting in favor of the ban and 16 voting to keep the play. It will take 24 votes to either vote in favor of or against the play. 

If passed, any kind of pull or push during an NFL game will result in a 10-yard penalty. The noise around NFL circles is that league figures, including Commissioner Roger Goodell, are for banning tush pushes. 

In other league news, Albert Breer reported that NFL owners will vote next week on a proposal to change the playoff seeding format. This will favor NFL teams with the better record at the end of the regular season and eliminate the original format of awarding the top four seeds to division winners. 

Details: If teams have the same record, a division title would serve as the first tiebreaker, not the head-to-head matchups throughout the regular season. If the new seeding format gets voted through, this will mean that following the first round of the playoffs, teams would be reseeded, so the No.1 seed in the AFC and NFC will play the lowest seed remaining. 

This process aims to increase late-season competitiveness and excitement while eliminating teams resting players in the week’s final regular-season games. 

Lastly, NFL owners will also vote on the structure of the onside kick rules. If passed, it will allow teams to perform onside kicks not just in the fourth quarter but throughout the entirety of the game. The kicking team would line up one yard closer, shortening the gap between both hands teams. 

The goal is to increase the onside kick success rate throughout the league, which was 6% last season. There were 41 attempted onside kicks, and only three were recovered successfully by the kicking teams.