In early spring, when the NFL’s movement to ban the tush push was in full attack mode at the owners meetings in West Palm Beach, Indianapolis Colts head coach Shane Steichen was asked if he could remember when the play was born.

“I remember when we were there the first year (2021), we put it in and then obviously we started going, ‘Hey, let’s do this and let’s do that,’” said Steichen, who was the Eagles offensive coordinator at the time. “And then the next thing you know it was, ‘Hey, let’s put two pushers back there,’ and that became the play. And then it was like, ‘Let’s do stuff off it.’ But then it was like, ‘Well, we don’t need to get too creative with it. We need one yard and we’re really good at this so let’s keep doing it until they stop it.’”

First-year head coach Nick S

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