No filament coming out of nozzle after using a while

Had this happen 7 hours into a print. Also happened after a few, few hour prints.

Not sure what’s causing yet but experimenting with different nozzles.

The extruder seems to keep trying to push, and the last time it happened, push the clips out and the fillament ended up spooling to the floor.

This is what it looks like after pulling apart the hotend and removing the nozzle. I was then able to push it through (I couldn’t pull it back out the way it came in).

To try fix I have re tensioned the extruder and also backed off the z-offset a bit. My thinking is if grip was too tight it could disfigure the filament (it had teeth marks), and if the z offset was too low, it might be backing up as it can’t push out.