Jason Kelce Says Banning Tush Push Won’t ‘Stop the Issue Everyone Is Riled Up About’

Former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce offered his take on the latest round of complaints and criticisms about the tush push.

On the latest episode of the New Heights podcast, Kelce explained that banning the play “will not stop the issue everyone is riled up about” in the wake of the Eagles’ 20-17 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

The issue coming out of Sunday’s game was that Fox showed replays of the tush push Philadelphia used to score its final touchdown in which multiple offensive linemen were moving forward before the ball was snapped that weren’t flagged by the officials.

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid even called it out during his post-game press conference, saying the Eagles might have had a couple of snaps “they got off early on” but he wanted to look at the tape.

This isn’t the first time that the Eagles have been called out for moving before the ball was snapped on the play. One example was last season in Week 13 against the Baltimore Ravens.

Kelce is right that the issue everyone is mad about right now wouldn’t be solved by banning the tush push because there are still ways to run a sneak play with the offensive line bunched together in such a way that they can move before the snap to gain an advantage without the officials being able to tell a false start has occurred.

For all of the people who don’t like the tush push, that’s not an Eagles problem. That’s an NFL problem because this has apparently been going for long enough that fans and analysts have been calling it out for a long time, yet they haven’t figured out a way to address it.

Until the league finds a solution to the false-start issue, the Eagles are going to keep doing it because it’s a competitive advantage.

If the NFL wants to take up banning the tush push again after this season, after it failed to pass by two votes this past offseason, no one will be surprised if it receives the necessary support given how much of a discussion point it has already been through two weeks of the regular season.