Nick Sirianni trolls tush push haters after win

With everybody complaining about the Philadelphia Eagles' most infamous play, Nick Sirianni and Kevin Patullo decided to stir the pot a little.

The Eagles ran two variations of the play in their 31-25 road win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. One ended with an underhand pass to Dallas Goedert for a touchdown, and the other saw Saquon Barkley turning the corner to enter the end zone untouched.

Nick Sirianni says people like the tush push

Coach Sirianni then addressed that by claiming that it was only to show that, contrary to what people say, it could actually be an "exciting play."

“People like this play, I don’t really know what to say,” Sirianni said after the game, via Josh Alper of Pro Football Talk. “And then there are things off this play that make it really exciting. I’m not going to get too much more into answering this question, but it seems like people and fans like the play. It was pretty exciting today to get a touchdown pass off it, a touchdown run — two runs — that come off of it to make the play what it is.”

Defending the play was already extremely difficult to defend. Now, this twist of trickery makes it borderline unstoppable.

At the end of the day, the Eagles aren't breaking any rules, nor are they stopping anybody else in the league from running their own version of the play. 

For now, it's all within the framework of the game, as much as the naysayers continue to punch air.