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The Philadelphia Eagles’ occurrence successful short-yard situations has yet to beryllium duplicated.
The alleged "tush push" took the NFL by tempest a fewer years ago. Quarterback Jalen Hurts lines up nether center, and arsenic helium snaps the ball, he’s pushed crossed the enactment to summation oregon the extremity enactment for a caller acceptable of downs oregon a touchdown.
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It was the occurrence of the play that helped them widen drives and onshore the Eagles successful the Super Bowl 2 years ago. Philadelphia is backmost successful the Super Bowl, and the "tush push" is firmly connected the caput of NFL fans up of Super Bowl LIX successful New Orleans.
But Hurts admitted helium doesn’t autumn into the hoopla astir the play and keeps the sanction of it "very standard."
"That’s what you telephone it. I telephone it the backmost sneak," Hurts said. "I support it precise standard."
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The "tush push" was stopped lone 4 times during the 2023 season, and it became a hotly contested topic: Should the NFL prohibition the play?
NFL enforcement Troy Vincent threw acold h2o connected that conception past February.
"Don’t punish a squad that strategically does it well," Vincent said during an quality connected "Pro Football Talk Live" astatine the time.
Whether you telephone it the "tush push" oregon the "brotherly shove," it seems the play volition beryllium successful the spotlight erstwhile again.
The Washington Commanders failed to halt it aggregate times and their accordant offsides successful the NFC Championship astir caused the refs to grant Philadelphia a score.
It volition beryllium up to the Kansas City Chiefs to load up its beforehand successful an effort to halt it this time.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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