Is The Eagles' 'Tush Push' On Life Support?

Other potential penalties on the play noted by broadcasters Kevin Burkhardt, Tom Brady, and Dean Blandino, the NFL’s former VP of Officiating, were left off this week’s video.

“The Philly shove is awfully impossible to stop, and when you get a false start penalty like that, it’s even harder to stop. And they missed that one pretty bad,” Brady said on a Jalen Hurts TD in which both Steen and left guard Landon Dickerson left early.

At one point, Blandino, now a FOX TV rules analyst, got frustrated and said he was done with the play.

Eagles on SI asked Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni how he handled the video with his team on Friday.

“You just address it, and you work on it like you do with every play of playing to the rules of the game,” Sirianni said. “I mean that's something that we talk about all the time, formationally, snap count-wise, offensively, is what I'm saying. Defense-wise, being onside, all those different things. So, the same way you do all those things.

“I know there's a lot of chatter and hype about the play, but we're coaching it the same way we always coach it, and we know we have to be right, not only on that play, but with all our plays.”

Some of the Eagles’ offensive linemen seemed resigned to the fact that the play is going to be outlawed.

"It's like a sad day but at the same time you got to live it up,” left tackle Jordan Mailata said. "It's like what do you do when you have six months to live? So hell, we might even call it 18 times this year. 

“We'll see."

All-Pro right tackle Lane Johnson said: “I’'m just an employee of the Eagles, I'm told to run it. 
I never thought it would come to this. It's been like this the past three years, so we'll see if it lives another year or another few weeks. But I'll be here."

Johnson, though, did scknowledge there was some pre-snap movement by the Eagles in Kansas City.

“When you look at the referee standpoint, there's probably a few calls during each game they'd like to have back so they get critiqued just like the players so that's kind of how we roll,” Johnson said. “You get the play called in and try to do the best you can, but looking into the weeks ahead, it'll be for us to make sure that we're dialed in."