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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magooch" data-source="post: 1060729" data-attributes="member: 17987">I think Goodell's recent comments/approach on the matter makes it clear he is intending to get rid of the play and IMO it's a matter of "when" rather than "if" at this point. The straw-poll was not particularly close, last I heard with only 16 votes in favor rather than the requisite 24. The fact that they then elected to "table" the matter until next month suggests to me they're planning to revise their approach and continue with trying to remove it (if you were indifferent and just polling opinion and came back with those results, I think you'd just move on rather than review again a month later, but that's just my opinion). But it sounds more and more like the intention is to roll back to the pre-2005 "aiding the runner" rules; in this way it serves to eliminate the "**** push" while also not appearing to single out Philly:"I think that makes a lot of sense in many ways because that expands it beyond that single play...There are a lot of plays where you see people pushing or pulling somebody that are not in the **** push formation that I think do have an increased risk of injury. So I think the Committee will look at that and come back in May with some proposals.”In any case I think the thing to remember is that the league is ultimately in the entertainment business. They will bring up player safety concerns (and I'm not saying it isn't a concern at all) but at the end of the day they are going to try and present the most entertaining three-ish hour "program" that they can. I saw some poll on ESPN today where something like 70%+ of respondents said it was not an "entertaining" play to watch, and I think many coaches share the same sentiment. So basically I think the league's looking at it and thinking they can remove a portion of their "show" that the majority of viewers simply don't find entertaining. It's nothing against Philly personally and I think injury concerns are secondary; they just think people don't like watching it very much (and they're probably right) and want to trim away the "less entertaining" bits wherever possible.(Of course, I don't really know how to reconcile that with the kickoff/onside changes, but whatever...)</blockquote>

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