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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
As a fan of an AFC West team, I don't have any skin in the game in regards to the Eagles or Packers but I'm personally just not a fan of the play as to me it's not a football play for a runner to be pushed over the line of scrimmage to gain yards and truth be told this is a loophole play that was never intended as the NFL only changed the rule in 2005 to allow pushing the runner because officials were finding it too hard to officiate because in a downfield pileup of players around the ball carrier it was too difficult to discern if teammates were pushing the runner or another player in contact with the runner.
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So if a team runs a sweep and has a trailing lineman push the RB over the LoS, that's not a football play?