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The Eagles’ infamous Tush Push is officially a legal play for the 2024 season, per NFL

Are you glad to see the Tush Push returning this season?

While the Philadelphia Eagles won’t have center Jason Kelce this upcoming season, they will have the Tush Push at their disposal.

The controversial quarterback sneak play will officially be back for next season for any team that wants to use it, as NFL executive Troy Vincent told reporters on Thursday (via ESPN’s Adam Schefter).

Schefter added that Vincent noted how well the Eagles run the play, which may or may not be the case without Kelce on the offensive line to help out quarterback Jalen Hurts on the formation.

With the Tush Push officially legal for 2024, NFL defenses will now have the rest of the offseason to figure out how to finally stop it.

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The Eagles were down so bad that even their Tush Push play failed miserably against the Buccaneers

The Eagles’ Tush Push doesn’t work if the other team has a monster like Vita Vea.

Controversy has surrounded the Philadelphia Eagles’ insistence on using their Tush Push play all season. Virtually any third or fourth-and-short play feels automatic because the Eagles can literally push Jalen Hurts over the line.

But with the Eagles’ season spiraling, it seems even their bread and butter doesn’t work.

As the Eagles tried to rally in Monday night’s Wild Card Game battle with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they elected to use the Tush Push on a two-point conversion. It was ruthlessly stuffed, making it seem like the team forgot that the Buccaneers employ 346-pound defensive tackle Vita Vea. The cute little quarterback sneak variation won’t work if he’s the defender in the middle, you guys!

This whole sequence is just a sign of the times. The Eagles are so out of sorts that they can’t even execute the Tush Push in a sudden-death playoff game. Go figure.

WATCH: The Bucs foil the tush push on a two-point conversion

The Eagles have been stopped by the Bucs twice on their patented QB sneak play this year.

The Philadelphia Eagles are notorious for their patented “tush push” (or “brotherly shove”), but they haven’t had a lot of success with it against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Eagles attempted to run their signature QB sneak play after the Bucs jumped offsides against Philly on their extra point attempt after a Dallas Goedert touchdown. They were foiled, however, when the defensive linemen were able to stuff it up the middle and prevent quarterback Jalen Hurts from scoring on it. As such, the score was 16-9 when the play failed as opposed to 16-11.

The Bucs have now successfully stopped the tush push twice this year, doing it the first time on a fourth-down conversion later in the year. Check out the play below:

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Josh Allen literally crowd-surfed over the first-down line on a botched Bills’ Tush Push

Josh Allen and the Bills offensive linemen are him.

The Philadelphia Eagles’ “Tush Push” play has been copied by plenty of NFL teams, but the Buffalo Bills ran their own version of it to great effect against the Pittsburgh Steelers because of who was behind center and who was blocking for him.

Bills quarterback Josh Allen converted in short yardage against the Steelers during Buffalo’s AFC wild-card game on a Tush Push-esque play with the sheer force of being Josh Allen and the Bills.

He didn’t get the yardage at first thanks to a good hold from the Steelers’ vaunted defensive line, but Allen being Allen made up for it by lunging into the air and seemingly crowd-surfing to the first down with the help of his offensive linemen.

Allen is one of the most impressive athletes at the position in the league, and plays like this show that there are few quarterbacks who can quite do it like this right now on any given formation.

While Allen got a little help from his friends on this one, it still shows what a spectacularly talented quarterback he is to make a conversion like this.

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Eagles bring a passing twist to the Brotherly Shove

The Eagles have now designed at least one passing play out of the Brotherly Shove. Watch out, NFL!

The Philadelphia Eagles are going to spam the rest of the NFL with the Brotherly Shove until and unless the league decides to render the play illegal based on concerns regarding safety that have no real merit. And now, as they showed on this 17-yard pass from running back Kenneth Gainwell to receiver DeVonta Smith with 32 seconds left in the first half against the Arizona Cardinals, the Eagles are starting to grow different concepts out of their favorite scrum.

Quarterback Jalen Hurts pitched to Gainwell with the tush-push fake, and Gainwell caught the Cardinals napping downfield. Given the issues the Eagles have had on offense this season, perhaps a full Brotherly Shove package would do a world of good to turn things around.

Youth football league bans Peyton Manning’s son from running ‘Tush Push’ play

Peyton Manning put a ‘Tush Push’ play in the playbook for his son, Marshall. After they ran it, their youth football league banned the play.

There has been talk in NFL circles over the last two years about the possibility of the “Tush Push” — a quarterback sneak perfected by the Philadelphia Eagles — being banned for safety and/or competitive reasons.

Even Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton hinted during the offseason that the NFL might outlaw the play. Speaking at a league meeting earlier this month, however, NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent said reports of the league planning to ban the play are false.

“Philly does it better than everyone else. That’s a fact,” Vincent said. “You won’t want to punish anyone for doing something well.”

So the play isn’t getting banned by the NFL — at least not anytime soon. Lower levels of football are a different story.

During the ManningCast of the Seahawks-Eagles game on Monday, former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning said a youth football league has banned his son’s team from running the “Tush Push” at the seventh-grade level.

“We were told after that play, the ref’s like, ‘Hey, you can’t do that,'” Manning said. “I’m like, ‘The Eagles do it in the NFL,’ he’s like, ‘This is not the NFL.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, I thought seventh grade AYL Colorado Youth Football was the NFL.’ I was confused, but that was the last time we did it. They banned it in our league.”

Manning coaches the seventh-grade Cherry Creek Bruins team that his son, Marshall, quarterbacks. He won’t get to call the “Tush Push” play for his son anymore, but Peyton clearly enjoys watching it in the NFL.

Peyton Manning can’t call Tush Push plays in his son’s football league because it’s banned

Even Peyton Manning can’t call a Tush Push play in his kid’s football league without controversy.

The Tush Push has become the most controversial play in the NFL, with only the Philadelphia Eagles able to consistently run it to effect.

Well, even Peyton Manning can’t get away with the play while he’s coaching his son Marshall’s seventh grade football team.

While talking with San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey on this week’s ManningCast, Peyton Manning talked about how he tried to run a Tush Push with his son’s team but got told by a league referee that the play is not allowed.

While the NFL will undoubtedly discuss the rule in the offseason, it sounds like Manning would much rather it stay around so his kid’s team can use it.

There’s nothing inherently “wrong” with the Tush Push as much as it’s just hard to defend, which should spark defensive coordinators to work harder to scheme around it in the future rather than a league rule change.

We won’t solve this NFL problem right now, but maybe the league Manning’s son plays in can fix this faster than the big leagues can.

Feature image courtesy of ESPN.

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Good, bad and ugly from Vikings 27-24 loss vs. Bengals

The Minnesota Vikings lost another heartbreaker, this week to the Cincinnati Bengals 27-24. Chris Spooner looks at the good, bad and ugly.

Another week, another frustrating loss for the Minnesota Vikings. On the plus side, there was a lot more offense this week than in the 3-0 win over the Raiders last week.

On the not-so-positive side, the Vikings have lost three very winnable games in the past four weeks and could – and arguably should – be sitting at 10-4 right now instead of 7-7. Minnesota has dropped those three games by a total of six points and had ample opportunity to win each one.

It’s clear at this point that even if the Vikings are able to limp into the playoffs, they’re not going to be dangerous when they get there – as much because they can’t get out of their own way as for any other reason. Saturday was yet another game where the miscues, both offensive and defensive, were simply too much to overcome.

An otherwise good game was spoiled by turnovers and defensive breakdowns yet again.

Despite the loss, the Vikings are still in good position to make the playoffs, and are still in contention for the NFC North crown, with nothing but divisional matchup on the schedule from here on out with two games against Detroit and one against Green Bay. Before we look ahead to those matchups, let’s reflect on the good, bad and ugly from this week’s loss to the Bengals.

Cowboys’ Quinn on defending Eagles’ 3rd, 4th downs: ‘We’ve got to go make those stops’

From @ToddBrock24f7: The Dallas DC believes the way to stop the “tush push” is to prevent 4th down at all. But Philly’s been awfully good on 3rd down, too.

Every team that’s faced the Eagles this season has had their own tactic to defending the “tush push.” Some have tried to go up over the top of the Philadelphia linemen, some have attempted to dive underneath to the bottom of the pile for leverage, some have sent a defender shooting around the scrum in hopes of pulling Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts from behind before he can squeeze past the line to gain.

But Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn maintains that a more effective strategy would be to not let the Philly offense get into a fourth-and-short-yardage scenario to begin with.

“I wouldn’t say it’s the only way,” Quinn said this week at The Star, “but it is one thousand percent the best way.”

Delivering Wednesday’s pre-practice press conference in place of Mike McCarthy as the head coach dealt with an emergency appendectomy, Quinn acknowledged that his unit didn’t fare too well against the Eagles on late downs when the rival clubs met in Week 9.

Philadelphia converted seven of their 14 third-down attempts and both fourth-downs that they tried in their 28-23 win.

Quinn believes his troops will have to do much better than that to knock off the division leaders in this critical Week 14 rematch, but he knows it won’t be easy.

“One of the things Philadelphia does really well, amongst many,” he offered, “is third downs.”

The Eagles are currently moving the sticks on 47.85% of their third downs, a mark that places them third in the league.

Dallas’s defense, on the other hand, is coming off a couple games in which their third-down success rate was less than stellar. The Seahawks went 9-of-14 on third-down tries in Week 13. Washington converted nearly 50%, 7-of-15, on Thanksgiving Day.

Prior to those two games- both of which were tightly-contested affairs going into the fourth quarter- whenever the Cowboys defense allowed its opponent to convert third downs at a rate of .500 or better? The team’s three losses.

“To me, that’s where some of the secret sauce in this game is going to live,” predicted Quinn of this Sunday’s showdown, “because some of their third downs can turn into fourth downs where they go [for it].”

And when they do go for it, tush push or otherwise, the Eagles are converting at a 73.68% rate.

“That’s one of the games within the game, to say on our third and fourth downs, that’s a really big deal,” Quinn told reporters. “We’ve got to go make those stops in that space.”

When looking at the season as a whole, the Cowboys have actually done that reasonably well. Over 13 full games played this season, Dallas’s opponents have converted just 36.94% of their third downs (10th-best) and 48.15% of fourth-down tries (14th-best).

Holding Philadelphia to those levels or below would ostensibly go a long way toward a Cowboys win on Sunday night.

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Jason Kelce said ‘ban it’ to the Eagles’ Tush Push, but not for the reason you think

Jason Kelce is tired of all the tush push ban talk.

The debate over the Tush Push — or, the Brotherly Shove — play the Philadelphia Eagles run has always been silly to me.

If it’s so hard to stop, find a way to stop it. Simple as that. It harkens back to the sport’s roots in rugby, too, which is neat. But now there’s talk of banning it, and Jason Kelce has had enough.

On the latest New Heights podcast, the Eagles center addressed it: “Ban it.”

But here’s the context: Kelce said he’s “over the discussion about it” and that Philly will run it until it’s not allowed. And if that’s the case?

“Whatever they do next season, we’ll figure out a way to do something at a high level and make it effective,” he added. “We were 36-for-38 running quarterback sneaks before the push!”

Well said!