Cowboys tried (and failed) to sabotage Eagles after Super Bowl win

Dallas Cowboys fans have had enough of the Philadelphia Eagles after they won their second Super Bowl in franchise history last season. Unfortunately, Philly has been all the rage leading up to Wednesday's all-important vote on whether to ban the tush push.

After widespread speculation that owners would vote to remove the tush push from the game, it got renewed, for lack of a better term, for another season. The proposal needed 24 votes to remove the play once and for all. It only got 22, which means 10 teams voted against the ban.

According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, the Cowboys were not one of those teams, which means Jerry Jones voted to nix the play.

Cowboys voted to ban the Eagles' tush push, but got denied

The Commanders and Giants were in lockstep with Dallas, so the rest of the division wanted the tush push banned. Not a huge surprise given they all play the Eagles twice a year, but it still speaks volumes about what the NFC East thinks of the play.

Jones was outspoken in the meeting, according to ESPN's Seth Wickersham, going as far as to specify potential issues with the tush push.

Former Eagles center Jason Kelce, who attended the meeting to dispel the notion that he retired because the tush push wore down his body, understood Jones' perspective and even agreed on some of the points he made.

"Any play that's out of the ordinary gets extra scrutiny because of the competition," Jones told ESPN insider Jeremy Fowler. "That's the fun part of having these meetings, and here we are -- the world champion is the main focus of the tush push, and here we are debating it and having to decide, 'Am I really against the tush push or do I just want Philadelphia to [not] have an edge? And I sit there and fight that, too."

If nothing else, Jones underwent a change of heart.

When the Packers submitted their proposal to ban the tush push in April, Jones came out in support of the play largely due to its entertainment factor. That was a bold hill to die on as the tush push resembles rugby more than American football, but we digress. At least he changed his mind.

At the end of the day, it would have been bush league to ban the play simply because the Eagles are better at it than everyone else. Other teams have tried to adopt it into their playbook. Some have found success, while others have failed spectacularly.

Mike McCarthy, Mike Zimmer and Dan Quinn were all unsuccessful at thwarting the tush push. Hopefully Brian Schottenheimer and Matt Eberflus buck that trend because Dallas is going to see all of it they can handle in 2025 despite Jones' best efforts.