The Philadelphia Eagles really did it four times in a row.
And when the fourth consecutive tush push ended with Jalen Hurts scoring a touchdown, the rest of the football world groaned.
Former Cowboys and current Packers star Micah Parsons posted on X, "It's not football!"
Interestingly enough, that's what Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio reports the NFL league office feels, too. He wrote Friday that the "prevailing sentiment" in the league office is that "it's not football."
That, combined with some additional momentum against it, could be enough to eventually get the tush push banned. It needed votes from 24 teams to ban it this past offseason and got 22.
Maybe the biggest new problem is officiating the play. Video evidence continues to show the offensive team committing violations when they run the tush push, but officials either can't see it or aren't calling it.
"The Eagles scored a touchdown after four straight uses of their trademark play, and with more evidence of linemen leaving early — and the officials not seeing it," Florio writes. "Difficulty of officiating has become the latest basis for getting rid of it, joining injury concerns and aesthetics as justifications for another effort in the 2026 offseason to get to 24 votes."
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There's always going to be a sense that other teams want the tush push banned in part because the Eagles are so good at it.
But if the ongoing thought continues to be that it's not really football, or at least football the way the league wants it to be played, then it may not stick around.
The Eagles didn't win Thursday even with the tush push. The New York Giants were too explosive on non-shove plays with Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo.
That won't stop the discourse, though. And at some point, there may be one final push to get it out of the game.
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