Tush Push controversy: Eagles-Chiefs game is all evidence NFL needs to ban the play
September 16, 2025
Tush Push controversy: Eagles-Chiefs game is all evidence NFL needs to ban the play
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If it can’t be officiated correctly then it must go. It’s not a football play to begin with and when we then get different rules for this one play vs all the others it just needs to go.
How would they write a rule that would ban it?
4 out of 7 attempts involved the eagles false starting…
No one except Eagles fans like the play and I bet a bunch of them don’t even like it
I dont understand why they cannot call all of the numerous false starts ? Just penalize it out of existence
Don’t forget that they wouldn’t hike the ball during the playoff game vs Washington last year and kept cheezing the play
Or they could just start calling false start again.
Unpopular take here: if a play, any play, has a 98% success rate I don’t want it in my competitive sports experience. Nothing in the NFL should be that successful.
I love football my whole life. To me the play is so boring, annoying and ugly. Yes the Eagles are great at it but it takes all the excitement out of short yardage because it is basically automatic. The game slows down and is boring. Eagles need two yards we all know what is coming
I hope they ban it more as a fan of football and not one team.
Yall… we won’t get a rule change until it affects the outcome of a Bills game. Cmon now
Just a matter of time before some player is laying on the ground with a spine injury and carted off never to play again.
Still don’t get the one where they false start, jones punches the ball before it’s snapped and it’s ruled a first down? Incredible.
Good but they should have done it years ago
Dumb question….. if a defensive player laid down on their back parallel with the line of scrimmage, allowed the play to start, and was hit by 2 offensive lineman on their upper and lower body, would that be considered a chop block penalty?
Just let the eagles play the bills That will fix it
If eagles did this vs buffalo there would already be a new rule
The articles talks about a concern targeting the Eagles with officiating the rules. You mean like they did when Juwan got spotlighted by Collinsworth? When he does the exact same thing Lane Johnson does and nearly every other tackle.
Turns out “not our fault if you can’t do it yourselves” starts with cheating? How was this missed?
From the article- “The problem now is if the officials start flagging the Eagles, it will look like they are targeting them.” Lol that doesn’t seem to be an issue against any other team or player the officials want to make an example of….
Potential hot take. I don’t mind the tush push. The problem I had was the illegal formation and missed false starts. It seems like they listened to the criticism after last nights game so that’s a start.
I say don’t ban the play, but teams shouldn’t be allowed to rush to the line for that play. The refs should check the line up each time it’s ran on both sides of the ball with a rolling clock. The offense should take the risk of losing time off the clock in playing it or call a timeout. With as successful as the play is, there should be some sort of trade off. I think the clock management and line checks per play would be a good trade off.
I have been talking about this for at least 3 years (both the false starts and offsides) and got downvoted into oblivion.
Thanks for catching up.
Also, the possibility of not seeing a fumble is wild.
Regardless of your stance we can all at least agree that blatant goddamn false starts should be called.
again, I love that the entire country tuned in to hate-watch the Chiefs, but came away realizing the other team was getting with multiple clear penalties on a play they spammed.
Either the NFL needs to make a statement that the play can be officiated just fine and explain why they just didn’t care to throw false start flags against the Eagles because reasons.
Or the play cannot be officiated properly and advancing a ball carrier by pushing the ball carrier needs to be banned. Again.
If the Eagles use this play to beat the Bills this season that’ll be the nail in the coffin
Haha, it’s hilarious that an eagle fan downvoted me for suggesting this needed to happen yesterday. I guess the refs are clearly favoring the chiefs.
But let’s put aside all the jokes and talk about the reasoning behind this play being banned. It’s pretty unbiased. If this play is legal, defenses should be allowed to push linemen in and even jump over the line. This play is heavily in favor of the offense. On top of the fact that it’s hard for the refs to call it correctly with the ball possession and position.
What I don’t get is why the eagles have to rely on this gimmicky ass play when they have a top OL and top RB. Must be a sirianni thing since teams take the identity of their HC so in this case, a pussy.
There are multiple things that piss me off about the play, but the one that should have made it banable is the fact that the o-line is essentially cut blocking every defensive lineman. Then, add in the false starts, the offsides, etc… it’s a bullshit play all around.
I can guarantee you, if the Chiefs implemented it first, it would have been banned after the first season.
They just need to enforce the rules and the play will go away on its own.
As a life long fan, and someone that generally dislikes this play… if Kelce just squeezes the ball none of these articles happen. I suppose, if losing this game means this play is more fairly officiated… it might have been worth it. We’re not the Bills though… so I’m not holding my breath.
If it happened against Buffalo there might be a chance the rule gets changed. No one outside of the Kingdom will give two shits that it happened against the Chiefs
If the officials were doing their jobs it shouldn’t be an issue. And if they didn’t see it then you would think some eye tests might be needed.
Im Just waiting for a playoff game where the eagles r on 1 yardline vs a Def coordinator that truly doesn’t give a fuck about inches…
Literally jumps offsides 21x until offense does it once just to reset the downs on the 5yrd
As soon as a game matters….when this is goal line stuff
We’re going to see the same down…for 10min
Seriously. Calling even one of those penalties backs it up 5 yards and changes the game. They can’t let the center line up completely on top of the ball.
But the defense gets called for being in the neutral zone half the time! Throw this play on the scrap heap of the NFL!
If our game is the catalyst for that play being banned, I’ll gladly take that L as a sacrifice for the betterment of the league.
The Eagles won the Super Bowl on a blowout, but imagine how absolutely awful it would be if they did a tush push for the game winning play in the SB. Instead of something creative like corndog, or even the Philly special. Imagine if they ran a tush push with the clock winding down to win…
If the play doesn’t get banned, there at least needs to be rule changes about the formation. I think a good start would be that in order to run this play/formation the ball must be line up a full yard form the line to gain. That means even if it’s 4th and inches, if you elect to run this play, the ball will be moved back to be a full yard from the line to gain. It not fair when there’s 6 inches to gain and the eagles linemen take 5 of those inches off before the play even starts 💀
They change rules based on things that happen to other teams by the chiefs. Not when it’s against the chiefs.
They also already voted to keep it based on GB requesting it be removed. I do hope they take another look at it but I’m not holding my breath.
Absolutely. This play is total garbage.
Watch, the Eagles will do the same against the Bills and the NFL will change the rules. Yet I’m told that the league always bends over backwards for us? Ironic.
i just want the chiefs to look like a team again
they haven’t looked like a cohesive team for over a year
Additionally, if everyone called it the butt stuff play, would they stop using it?
yeah, it is time to start looking at back tapes and see if there is a pattern of offside.
Doubt they’ll ban it. Guessing everyone will get a memo that they’ll watch for false starts more closely going forward this season, and they’ll do what they did to Taylor and call it with zero wiggle room for a bit causing eagles fans to get real angry
I agree with the essay’s argument. It’s also poorly written AI garbage.
(Side eye, muttering)
They don’t need to ban it, just call illegal formation, offsides, and false start when it’s applicable. They have new York, why can’t they help?
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If it can’t be officiated correctly then it must go. It’s not a football play to begin with and when we then get different rules for this one play vs all the others it just needs to go.
How would they write a rule that would ban it?
4 out of 7 attempts involved the eagles false starting…
No one except Eagles fans like the play and I bet a bunch of them don’t even like it
I dont understand why they cannot call all of the numerous false starts ? Just penalize it out of existence
Don’t forget that they wouldn’t hike the ball during the playoff game vs Washington last year and kept cheezing the play
Or they could just start calling false start again.
Unpopular take here: if a play, any play, has a 98% success rate I don’t want it in my competitive sports experience. Nothing in the NFL should be that successful.
I love football my whole life. To me the play is so boring, annoying and ugly. Yes the Eagles are great at it but it takes all the excitement out of short yardage because it is basically automatic. The game slows down and is boring. Eagles need two yards we all know what is coming
I hope they ban it more as a fan of football and not one team.
Yall… we won’t get a rule change until it affects the outcome of a Bills game. Cmon now
Just a matter of time before some player is laying on the ground with a spine injury and carted off never to play again.
Still don’t get the one where they false start, jones punches the ball before it’s snapped and it’s ruled a first down? Incredible.
Good but they should have done it years ago
Dumb question….. if a defensive player laid down on their back parallel with the line of scrimmage, allowed the play to start, and was hit by 2 offensive lineman on their upper and lower body, would that be considered a chop block penalty?
Just let the eagles play the bills That will fix it
If eagles did this vs buffalo there would already be a new rule
The articles talks about a concern targeting the Eagles with officiating the rules. You mean like they did when Juwan got spotlighted by Collinsworth? When he does the exact same thing Lane Johnson does and nearly every other tackle.
Turns out “not our fault if you can’t do it yourselves” starts with cheating? How was this missed?
From the article- “The problem now is if the officials start flagging the Eagles, it will look like they are targeting them.” Lol that doesn’t seem to be an issue against any other team or player the officials want to make an example of….
Potential hot take. I don’t mind the tush push. The problem I had was the illegal formation and missed false starts. It seems like they listened to the criticism after last nights game so that’s a start.
I say don’t ban the play, but teams shouldn’t be allowed to rush to the line for that play. The refs should check the line up each time it’s ran on both sides of the ball with a rolling clock. The offense should take the risk of losing time off the clock in playing it or call a timeout. With as successful as the play is, there should be some sort of trade off. I think the clock management and line checks per play would be a good trade off.
I have been talking about this for at least 3 years (both the false starts and offsides) and got downvoted into oblivion.
Thanks for catching up.
Also, the possibility of not seeing a fumble is wild.
Regardless of your stance we can all at least agree that blatant goddamn false starts should be called.
again, I love that the entire country tuned in to hate-watch the Chiefs, but came away realizing the other team was getting with multiple clear penalties on a play they spammed.
Either the NFL needs to make a statement that the play can be officiated just fine and explain why they just didn’t care to throw false start flags against the Eagles because reasons.
Or the play cannot be officiated properly and advancing a ball carrier by pushing the ball carrier needs to be banned. Again.
If the Eagles use this play to beat the Bills this season that’ll be the nail in the coffin
Haha, it’s hilarious that an eagle fan downvoted me for suggesting this needed to happen yesterday. I guess the refs are clearly favoring the chiefs.
But let’s put aside all the jokes and talk about the reasoning behind this play being banned. It’s pretty unbiased. If this play is legal, defenses should be allowed to push linemen in and even jump over the line. This play is heavily in favor of the offense. On top of the fact that it’s hard for the refs to call it correctly with the ball possession and position.
What I don’t get is why the eagles have to rely on this gimmicky ass play when they have a top OL and top RB. Must be a sirianni thing since teams take the identity of their HC so in this case, a pussy.
There are multiple things that piss me off about the play, but the one that should have made it banable is the fact that the o-line is essentially cut blocking every defensive lineman. Then, add in the false starts, the offsides, etc… it’s a bullshit play all around.
I can guarantee you, if the Chiefs implemented it first, it would have been banned after the first season.
They just need to enforce the rules and the play will go away on its own.
As a life long fan, and someone that generally dislikes this play… if Kelce just squeezes the ball none of these articles happen. I suppose, if losing this game means this play is more fairly officiated… it might have been worth it. We’re not the Bills though… so I’m not holding my breath.
If it happened against Buffalo there might be a chance the rule gets changed. No one outside of the Kingdom will give two shits that it happened against the Chiefs
If the officials were doing their jobs it shouldn’t be an issue. And if they didn’t see it then you would think some eye tests might be needed.
Im Just waiting for a playoff game where the eagles r on 1 yardline vs a Def coordinator that truly doesn’t give a fuck about inches…
Literally jumps offsides 21x until offense does it once just to reset the downs on the 5yrd
As soon as a game matters….when this is goal line stuff
We’re going to see the same down…for 10min
Seriously. Calling even one of those penalties backs it up 5 yards and changes the game. They can’t let the center line up completely on top of the ball.
But the defense gets called for being in the neutral zone half the time! Throw this play on the scrap heap of the NFL!
If our game is the catalyst for that play being banned, I’ll gladly take that L as a sacrifice for the betterment of the league.
The Eagles won the Super Bowl on a blowout, but imagine how absolutely awful it would be if they did a tush push for the game winning play in the SB. Instead of something creative like corndog, or even the Philly special. Imagine if they ran a tush push with the clock winding down to win…
If the play doesn’t get banned, there at least needs to be rule changes about the formation. I think a good start would be that in order to run this play/formation the ball must be line up a full yard form the line to gain. That means even if it’s 4th and inches, if you elect to run this play, the ball will be moved back to be a full yard from the line to gain. It not fair when there’s 6 inches to gain and the eagles linemen take 5 of those inches off before the play even starts 💀
They change rules based on things that happen to other teams by the chiefs. Not when it’s against the chiefs.
They also already voted to keep it based on GB requesting it be removed. I do hope they take another look at it but I’m not holding my breath.
Absolutely. This play is total garbage.
Watch, the Eagles will do the same against the Bills and the NFL will change the rules. Yet I’m told that the league always bends over backwards for us? Ironic.
i just want the chiefs to look like a team again
they haven’t looked like a cohesive team for over a year
Additionally, if everyone called it the butt stuff play, would they stop using it?
yeah, it is time to start looking at back tapes and see if there is a pattern of offside.
Doubt they’ll ban it. Guessing everyone will get a memo that they’ll watch for false starts more closely going forward this season, and they’ll do what they did to Taylor and call it with zero wiggle room for a bit causing eagles fans to get real angry
I agree with the essay’s argument. It’s also poorly written AI garbage.
(Side eye, muttering)
They don’t need to ban it, just call illegal formation, offsides, and false start when it’s applicable. They have new York, why can’t they help?