![[Jason Kelce] Personally I think this play adds a ton to the game of football. I Would much rather watch this than a punt. Punting the ball and giving it to your opponent is way softer than fighting over a yard and pushing against each other. I guess you like soft football](https://www.rawchili.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/4dlejl8gtspf1-1170x1024.jpeg)
[Jason Kelce] Personally I think this play adds a ton to the game of football. I Would much rather watch this than a punt. Punting the ball and giving it to your opponent is way softer than fighting over a yard and pushing against each other. I guess you like soft football
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Just officiate it fairly. That’s all we’re asking.
If it’s officiated correctly absolutely. But its not, and the Eagles know it’s not.
I do not even care if it is banned, but offsides is offsides.
It was real annoying to hear him say he’s tired of talking about it and it’s fractions of a second, blah blah blah. Of course he would say that but if it wasn’t his team doing it, he would be calling for it to be removed. So disingenuous.
It’s not a fun play to watch at all. The outcome is pretty much the same every time and it’s just a pile of players. How is that more fun to watch than a punt return?
Punting the ball travels 50+ yards, there is someone running in space, there are muffed punts, returners getting laid out, blocked kicks, fake punts, gunners running full speed and diving to save the ball from going into the end zone, roughing the kicker, etc…
The tush push a bunch of guys bunch up into a ball and the ball is either going to go a quarter of a yard or a full yard. Nothing really outside of that.
I don’t look to Jason Kelce for an objective opinion on this topic.
This also coming from the same guy who retired because of it lol. His own former teammates on the line openly admitting they hate the play. The kelce brothers are just entertainers atp idgaf what they have to say
It certainly does not add to the game. First, punt blocks and punt returns can be some of the MOST electric plays in the game, way more so than watching 11 guys scoot forward 1 yard after jumping offsides. Second, this kind of play is the kind of primitive football from which the world was liberated with the implementation of the forward pass, and for good reason – it is boring. Third, if Jason Kelce had played for the Cowboys, Giants, or Commanders he would 100% reverse this take.
We get it, he’s backing the birds, I have no issue with him saying “If you don’t like it stop it.” and dropping the issue there, but to try and make it seem like backing the tush push is some kind of virtuous protecting of the best parts of football – spare me bro.
Jason Kelce, big sumbich known for being good at the tush push, controversially supports the tush push.
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I respect Jason Kelce and this is clearly his opinion, but it’s not a good take imo. Everyone and their mother knows it’s going to happen anytime there is short yardage. Clearly from the game the other day, it breaks like 3 or 4 rules at once. I agree officiate it fairly, but I think the only way this play stops being ran or is banned is when Jalen Hurts or another offensive lineman completely blows out their legs/back running it
You guys are being far too kind to our favorite brother. I’ll say it for you: he’s flat wrong.
The tush push is an abomination. It’s boring, hard to watch, impossible to judge fairly, and starts with the requirement that you have to cheat or rely on missed calls for it to work at a high enough success rate.
Aside: I hate the ‘fairness’ argument. It IS a fair play, so long as you get away with the same missed calls.
As for punts: we all know the numbers say most coaches are bad at when not to call one (basically past midfield).
But boring? What?? Apparently he hasn’t seen the crash of bodies, the always-close call from the DE flying into almost block it, the kicker doing a pirouette to avoid losing his leg and career, the gunners, the returner choosing whether to fair catch, and the wild chance there’s a massive hit or a muffed punt recovered by the kicking team.
Nobody that ever saw Derrick Thomas play — or Dante Hall or Devin Hester for that matter — would ever seriously say this dumb rugby play is remotely as amazing as the possibilities of a punt. No way.
What I mostly like is not watching four fucking false starts out of seven attempts going completely uncalled for but sure Jason.
Jason’s not wrong, and I don’t even care if they do it. It’s a play, and all plays are designed with a strategy to gain yardage. Misdirection, brute force, pre-snap movement, “picks,” etc. But you have call the false starts. Nobody should be allowed to run an illegal play.
I would rather watch a punt, and why is this a binary option? you can still go for it on fourth
The softness argument is so lame. I don’t wanna ban it because it’s too hard. I want to ban it because it’s impossible to fucking officiate and there’s gonna be false starts and offsides every damn tush push
Actually it’s way worse, it absolutely blows
If you like them jumping the line before the ball gets snapped then sure…if not shut the fuck up
Totally cool with the tush push if it’s within the rules. If the rules are enforced equally across the league it’s fine.
Sunday just proved the refs don’t enforce the rules. It should be a flag every time as they’re currentky running it. If the Eagles can do it legit then it should be “too bad, so sad” for the rest of the league. That’s not the case
Sorry Jason, we love you, but you’re biased
Jason’s cool but, yeah, I can’t imagine a person’s opinion on the matter that we should dismiss more quickly than his.
Says the Eagles center lmfao
Ok, I love Jason Kelce but fuck that take. That’s the most slanted, biased take with a straw-man fallacy attached that I have seen in a while.
Let’s face it. There’s no point complaining about it until the bills lose to it in the postseason.
The play is boring.