{"id":33239,"date":"2025-05-08T08:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T08:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/33239\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T08:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T08:31:09","slug":"philadelphia-eagles-saquon-barkley-rips-tush-push-critics-tells-teams-to-get-better-at-stopping-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/33239\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 Saquon Barkley rips \u2018tush push\u2019 critics, tells teams to \u2018get better at stopping it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/philadelphia-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia Eagles\u2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia Eagles\u2019<\/a> highly effective \u201ctush push\u201d play might be on its last legs when NFL owners meet later this month, and All-Pro running back <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/saquon-barkley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Saquon Barkley;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Saquon Barkley<\/a> is challenging critics who want to ban it.<\/p>\n<p>During the NFL\u2019s annual league meeting earlier this year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/green-bay-packers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Green Bay Packers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Green Bay Packers<\/a> proposed to ban the \u201ctush push,\u201d citing player safety concerns, despite the lack of empirical data suggesting this play is more dangerous than any other football play.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The proposal was tabled but will resurface on May 20 and 21 at the next NFL owners meeting. The ban would require approval from 24 of the 32 owners.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, the play appears likely to be outlawed.<\/p>\n<p>When asked at the Met Gala about the \u201ctush push,\u201d known as the \u201cBrotherly Shove\u201d among Eagles fans, Barkley essentially told teams to stop complaining and find a way to defend it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t like it, get better at stopping it,\u201d Barkley told ESPN. \u201cIt\u2019s not like a play that we only can do. Everybody does it. Everyone tries it. We\u2019re just super successful at it. They were super successful at it before I was there. I know what it does to a team, how it breaks down a team. And now being on the team, you\u2019re lining up and everyone knows what you\u2019re doing and it\u2019s like, \u2018Stop me.\u2019 And they can\u2019t, so they\u2019re gonna get in their feels about it. They\u2019re gonna try to make changes, but I don\u2019t see that happening. And if it doesn\u2019t, just get better at stopping it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/44490292\/sources-tush-push-ban-vote-tabled-nfl-owners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN<\/a>, the Eagles have scored 27 touchdowns and recorded 92 first downs on the tush push over the last three seasons with Jalen Hurts under center. During last year\u2019s Super Bowl run, the play accounted for 11 scores and 32 first downs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctush push\u201d accounted for just 0.28% of total plays in the NFL in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 highly effective \u201ctush push\u201d play might be on its last legs when NFL owners meet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,13046,345,492,6,242,109,2476,894,12923],"class_list":{"0":"post-33239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-football-play","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-jalen-hurts","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","16":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","17":"tag-saquon-barkley","18":"tag-tush-push"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114471284472021576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}