The Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers met twice during the 2024 season. Coincidentally, it was Green Bay’s first and last games of the season. Reports have surfaced over the last 24 hours or so that Philadelphia’s infamous QB Sneak Play, otherwise known as the Tush Push, has been requested to be banned. As it turns out, Green Bay has been the ones leading the charge in that request.
Now, Philadelphia’s head coach has spoken out about it.
Breaking: Eagles’ HC Nick Sirianni Responds To Packers’ “Tush Push Ban”
According to Nick Sirianni, it’s unfair Green Bay is asking to have this play banned:
“It’s a skill that our team has because of the players that we have, the way that the coaches coach it. … Again, there’s just so much time put into it. The fact that it’s a successful play for the Eagles and people want to take that away is a little unfair,” he said at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis.
Multiple NFL teams run variations of the play and Sirianni said that it’s far from a sure success. The reason that the Eagles’ version of the play works is due to the attention to detail that goes into it.
“I almost feel a little insulted because we work so hard at that play,” he said. “The amount of things that we’ve looked into how to coach that play, the fundamentals. There’s a thousand plays out there but it comes down to how you teach the fundamentals and how the players go through and do the fundamentals.”
Here is a video of the full answer:
Nick Sirianni shared his thoughts on the difficulty of the “tush push” after Green Bay reportedly filed a proposal to the NFL’s competition committee to ban the play ⬇️
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According to Gutenkunst, he didn’t really know much about the proposal:
“I’m aware that we did (submit it) but really haven’t had many discussions about it.” He added that he had not been having sleepless nights over the success of the Eagles’ play.
“I know we’re not very successful against it, I know that,” he said. “To be honest with you, I have not put that much thought into it. It’s been around for a while; we’ve used it in different fashions with our tight end. I think there will be a lot of discussions around it. I’ve got to look at some of the information around it such as injury rates, but we’ll see.”
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