Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni gives perfect response to Packers and other NFL teams wanting to ban the Tush Push
The Philadelphia Eagles are so good at running the Tush Push play that other NFL teams, such as the Green Bay Packers, want it banned forever. The Packers even went as far as submitting a proposal to the league's front office on why the Tush Push should be forbidden. However, Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni […]
The Philadelphia Eagles are so good at running the Tush Push play that other NFL teams, such as the Green Bay Packers, want it banned forever.
The Packers even went as far as submitting a proposal to the league's front office on why the Tush Push should be forbidden.
However, Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni doesn't think that it would be very fair to get rid of the play.
"I can't tell you how many times we've practiced the snap, we've practiced the play — it's not a play that's easy to practice, so there's different ways we've figured out how to practice it — the complements that come off of it that can create explosive plays," Sirianni said at the NFL Combine this week. "The fact that it's [portrayed] as an automatic thing, we work really hard, and our guys are talented at this play, and so it's a little insulting to say we're good at it so it's automatic. We work really hard at it."
The Packers, and other NFL teams, have cited injuries.
But Sirianni was quick to debunk that reasoning.
"I think if you look at that, because we've looked into that, too, there wasn't a lot of injuries there. I think that's a little made up, to be honest," he said. "Now, the numbers will tell the truth, but I don't think there was many injuries with it this year. I can't remember one injury we had on that play, and we ran it more that everybody else."
The injuries while running the Tush Push are very few considering the play is not one that teams typically turn, simply because they're not as good at it.
It's a different story for the Eagles, who ran the Tush Push 43 times and were successful on 39 of those attempts (81.3%) when converting the play into a first down or touchdown this past season.
"Obviously, I'm protective of it because we've had success with it," Sirianni said. "I think the competition committee will do a good job of looking at everything, but I do feel that way a little bit, a little bit insulting in that sense of, the guys work hard at it, we work hard at it. … Just because it's a successful play for us doesn't mean that it should go away."
