Eagles are facing team in Week 5 who is in favor of the tush push./
In the lead up to Week 5, the Eagles won’t hear the Broncos whine about the tush push after hearing a ton of complaints in the first month of the season.
Broncos coach Sean Payton appreciates how the play is executed and does not want to see it banned. Payton believes that would be bad for the NFL.
“I was one that stood up in favor of (the tush push),” Payton said Tuesday on Denver Sports 104.3. “The reason I stood up in favor of it is pretty simple. If the powers to be don’t want it for aesthetic reasons, or competitive reasons, or it’s hard to officiate, etcetera. I’ve been involved in those meetings for a long time, and when all of the sudden health and safety was pulled into what might be the safest play in football, my (B.S.) nose kind of went up.”
The Broncos voted to ban the tush push during the offseason, but it sounds like Payton didn’t make that decision.
A big argument made against Philadelphia’s quarterback sneak is the aesthetic is ugly, but the Eagles made it look pretty in their Week 4 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“Take a peek at this past week’s touchdown off the tush push look, and it was a sweep to the left (to Eagles running back Saquon Barkley),” Payton said. “I’m one that looks at it as long as the line of scrimmage is clean, that it’s a well-run quarterback sneak. When you really evaluate it, it’s more the technique of the sneak than the push. You go all the way back to Green Bay against Dallas in the ‘Ice Bowl’ and Bart Starr crosses the goal line with someone pushing a little bit behind him. So I was one that was in favor of leaving it alone on Philly’s side.”
Over the last four weeks, the Kansas City Chiefs, media personalities and fans on social media have ripped the tush push.
The NFL could try to outlaw the tush push in the offseason after failing to do it this past spring.
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