Former Browns defensive lineman shares bold take on the tush push

Much has been made about the Philadelphia Eagles ' now-famous short-yardage sure-fire play, the tush push. At first, many people were impressed by the camaraderie and the strength it took to make that play so efficient each and every time the Eagles needed a yard or two. 

The play became so dominant, and the Eagles continued to use it frequently. Eventually, though, people became sick of the play, seeing it over and over again, and the continued success of the play watered down many fans and front office members. The frustrations rose all the way into the owner’s meetings in May, where the Green Bay Packers proposed banning the play out right. 

Evidently, the ban did not go through, and the play was still deemed legal for any team to use it. The proposal needed 24 votes to go through, and the play skated by as 22 votes were to ban the play, but ten teams voted to keep the play.

One of the teams that voted to keep the play was the Cleveland Browns, and a former Browns defensive lineman, Phil Taylor, gave his take on the play earlier today on the Honor The Land show on the BIGPLAY Sports Network. 

“You just gotta man up, you can't start banning things that are new and can't be stopped at the moment, they ran it four plays in a row, whoopee doo. You gotta stop it, and the people that complain about it, they're the people that want it out of the game because nobody can seem to stop it,” Taylor exclaimed.