There are some BIG CHANGES coming to the NFL!

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Kyle Crabbs discusses NFL Owners agreeing to allow players to compete in the 2028 Summer Olympic games and speculates on their votes for NFL Playoff reseeding as well as the Tush Push!

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00:00NFL owners are meeting this week to vote on a number of rule changes for the upcoming season,

00:05but the big news is the headlines coming out today in regards to football and its future

00:11across the globe. I'm Kyle Krabs with A to Z Sports and owners are set to vote this week on

00:20playoff seeding and the dreaded tush push. But for my money, the biggest headline you will get

00:26is the headlines that are coming out this afternoon. NFL players are going to be permitted

00:31to play in the flag football Olympics competition. This is the NFL's first opportunity to take a huge

00:40step forward in their global outreach initiatives of the past decade. Consider every year you're

00:47seeing more and more games internationally. You're seeing teams being granted roster exemptions for

00:53players that are international players that don't count against the 90-man rosters each and every

00:59offseason. The goal, of course, is to expand the game across the globe and create as big of a footprint

01:08and collect as many fans as you possibly can and in turn find the best talent to come play in your

01:14league. This is the first chance that the NFL is going to get from a professional athlete level

01:20to get those athletes out into a nation by nation competition. And while some owners across the league

01:29might not like the idea of Justin Jefferson suiting up to play for the Stars and Stripes,

01:34that is an individual decision that each owner and team and player is going to have to make

01:40for themselves. But because of how big of a point of emphasis the NFL has tried to get the NFL out in

01:49front of the global audience, having eligibility of your best players putting their skills on display

01:55is going to serve as an excellent ambassador for the game of football. But that is not the only thing

02:01that the owners are deciding this week. The Detroit Lions are going to have owners put to a vote a

02:07proposed change on the seeding of teams in the playoffs. The incentive for those who support the rule

02:13change is this. Too often at the end of the season, a team knows they're locked into a divisional

02:18championship, but can't improve their seating to get the first round by. As a result, they take their

02:24foot off the gas, coast to the end of the regular season, and the competitiveness and urgency that

02:30you would like to have in a regular season contest is no longer there. I personally feel this one is a

02:36little bit too much of an overreaction to what we saw with Minnesota versus Detroit in week 18,

02:41where the Vikings fell to a wildcard team and then had to go on the road in the playoffs while the

02:47Lions had their first round by. But there again, because of the recent change in the number of

02:53teams that made the postseason, could be continued pathways forward for this kind of tweak to be made

02:59in the years ahead. I just don't think we'll see this one come to pass in 2025. And that brings us to

03:06the final vote in place, the tush push, which everybody in every corner of the football world

03:13has an opinion on. Me personally, I hope they ban the tush push just so we can stop debating

03:19about the merits of the tush push. But the current vote that's set to go in place, the owners staved

03:24off making the vote when they had the first round of owners meetings after the NFL combine. The idea that

03:29they're circling back to vote on it now gives me the impression that there was some politicking going

03:34on behind the scenes. And predictably, I do think this play will ultimately have seen its last reps

03:40taken and the owners will vote to disallow the tush push moving forward. They need 24 votes to

03:46make it happen. So keep your eyes peeled for the timeline and keep your eyes peeled for the headlines

03:52because as the owners make these final determinations, it will set in place the full set

03:58of rules for which all teams will be playing in 2025.

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