Tristan Wirfs Celebrates NFL Saving The Tush Push
May 22nd, 2025
Tristan Wirfs is happy the Tush Push ban failed.
Football people and those who know how to make and invest money look at the world through two different prisms.
Apparently, despite the vocal public protests of Bucs coach Todd Bowles, Team Glazer voted yesterday to ban the Tush Push, per Adam Schefter of BSPN.
The Tush Push was saved as not enough owners voted to abolish it.
This is a weird one for Joe. The controversial play does not have any data to back up claims it is dangerous. There has to be a longer-range view to this attempted ban that relates to dollars and cents that Joe isn’t recognizing. Joe’s not being sarcastic. The NFL is a business, not a recreation.
So many teams being against the Tush Push tells Joe there is something financial to lose by keeping the play. Otherwise, since it doesn’t cause injuries, why would the league seem hellbent on getting rid of it?
If there was a logical reason to get rid of this play that wouldn’t anger fans, the NFL would have already come out and explained it to help boost its case. You know, win the court of public opinion.
(The term “follow the money” very much applies to the NFL.)
So Joe wonders what the reaction is in the highest reaches of One Buc Palace to Team Glazer’s best player not named “Mike Evans” or “Lavonte David” openly celebrating how the attempted ban was foiled today at the owners meetings in Minnesota.
Bucs All-Pro tackle Tristan Wirfs did a podcast with AP senior NFL writer Rob Maaddi, a regular at One Buc Palace writing Bucs-related items.
Wirfs was very happy the ban failed. In a roundabout way, he echoed Bowles, saying the lone problem with the play is that few teams have found a way to stop it — except the Bucs.
“I was definitely against it being banned,” Wirfs said. “It’s a hard thing to do. [The Eagles] are one of the only teams to have success with it.
“If there was a cheat code, then everyone would do it. But not everyone can.”
Then, Wirfs broke out in a huge smile and added, “I will say the Bucs were one of the [very few] teams that stopped it.”
And they did. Joe isn’t saying the Bucs shut that play down but they’ve had a lot better luck stopping it than most.
Joe finds the official Bucs angle curious if not humorous. Bowles has been publicly vocal against the proposed ban. Now Wirfs has joined Bowles, yet Bucs ownership is clearly for the ban.
(One Buc) Palace intrigue!
#Buccaneers All-Pro LT Tristan Wirfs on the tush push: "If it was a cheat code, then everyone would do it, but not everybody can." Wirfs spoke today at a leadership event in Tampa presented by @ChaseforBiz pic.twitter.com/wGzABSnMQC
— Rob Maaddi (@RobMaaddi) May 21, 2025
May 22nd, 2025 at 12:30 am
Hope we bring up Big Dez for the Eagles game, And set up a road block on that ass.
🏴☠️ 💪 💯
May 22nd, 2025 at 12:54 am
I cannot wait until this is no longer a big deal. I was trying to listen to local radio and oh my God. You would have thought someone defiled Lambeau field with the amount of moaning and complaining Packers radio was displaying. I had to shut it off. For the record, I hate the Packers, but sports are sports and I’m too cheap to get Sirius.
May 22nd, 2025 at 12:55 am
No tush push needed…big V and big Dez with little Bucky behind them….wheres the lie?
May 22nd, 2025 at 12:57 am
And on the D side, it never worked against us anyway….we ARE the kryptonite to that tush push.
May 22nd, 2025 at 1:36 am
I hate the play.
May 22nd, 2025 at 5:08 am
Hate the play, but don’t care one way, or another.
May 22nd, 2025 at 6:31 am
We’re going to stomp them again this season. Jalen Hurts should call in sick for that game.
May 22nd, 2025 at 6:42 am
Keep em at 3rd & 4th and long and the tush push will not be used. A good defense will not have it used much on them.
May 22nd, 2025 at 6:53 am
The proposed evolution to ban all pushing will have far reaching unintended consequences imo.
The nfl is hoping to avoid a scenario like the nfc championship game @joe. Where the refs almost awarded a touchdown to the eagles because the other team kept jumping offsides to try and stop the tush push.
Once a ref has to do that- there will be a loss of credibility by the nfl. “Oh were just sanding out points”?
May 22nd, 2025 at 6:53 am
Handing.
May 22nd, 2025 at 7:15 am
3rd or 4th and goal with a yard or less to convert is undoubtedly one of the most physical plays in the game of football.
The cerebral will want to take the easy 3 points.
The toxically masculine will want to go for the TD.
While I appreciate and understand the ‘points on the board’ argument, I lean towards the ‘TD for the win’ side.
May 22nd, 2025 at 7:36 am
The fans, armchair QB and coaches get to second guess after the fact. Each game time decision should be different based on the situation. Down and distance, personnel, score and momentum…
These are the decisions of a head coach. Win, and he’ll be lauded for making the right decision. Lose…? Then fans will be calling for a new one.
Fans don’t get to make those ‘big’ decisions though (thankfully).
[Although I often ‘wish’ I could]