The UFL just banned the tush push.

The NFL? Not so fast.

In Hour 2 of Jen, Gabe & Chewy, the crew reacts to the UFL eliminating the controversial short-yardage push play while the NFL backs away — for now — from doing the same.

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🏈 Packers Took the Heat — And Then Everyone Backed Off

Last offseason, the Green Bay Packers became the face of the anti–tush push movement, proposing the ban and absorbing the backlash.

The problem?

It looked like they were targeting the Eagles.

Now, the language has shifted. Instead of banning the “tush push,” the discussion is about prohibiting assistance of the runner more broadly — removing the branding, removing the optics.

The show dives into:

Why teams don’t want to be the public face of the ban

How Mark Murphy has historically been used as the league’s trial balloon

Why optics matter as much as rule intent

🧠 Is It Jalen Hurts… or the Rule?

The debate shifts to the real driver of the play’s success:

Is the tush push unstoppable because of the rule — or because Jalen Hurts and Josh Allen are freak athletes?

Chewy argues:

Once those quarterbacks are gone, this probably fades naturally.

The crew also revisits whether pushing the runner forward should ever have been allowed in the first place, noting it wasn’t legal in earlier eras.

⚖️ Replay Officials Throwing Flags?

As if the tush push wasn’t enough, the NFL is also exploring letting replay officials throw flags for “non-football acts.”

Punches.

Kicks.

Extracurricular retaliation.

In theory? Makes sense.

In practice? That opens the door to:

Post-play subjectivity

Inconsistent enforcement

Games being flipped by delayed calls

Josh sums it up:

If you’re going to do it, you cannot miss.

🏟️ The Slippery Slope Problem

The hour ends with a broader concern:

Are we creeping toward a league where replay governs everything?

Between:

Sky Judge expansion

Post-play flags

Competition Committee politics

The NFL wants to “get it right.”

But rewriting plays after the fact carries real consequences.

⚖️ The Bottom Line

The UFL moved first.

The NFL is watching.

Whether it’s the tush push, replay interference, or competition committee optics, this offseason is shaping up to be less about players — and more about how the game itself is governed.

🎧 A sharp, funny, and politically savvy breakdown of the NFL’s rule-making chess match — only on Jen, Gabe & Chewy.

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