That does it. It’s time to give the tush push a push out the door. Actually, it’s well past that time. The tush push was already on thin ice with league owners and then a single play during last Sunday’s Giants-Eagles game all but guaranteed it will be banned in the offseason.
It was a single play that sent everyone over the edge. A CBS headline put it best: “The tush push didn’t die in a meeting room; it died on a Sunday in Philadelphia.”
The media backlash was unanimous.
Facing a fourth-and-1 at the Giants’ 11-yard line, the Eagles ran the tush push. Jalen Hurts, the team’s 225-pound quarterback, churned into the scrum, low to the ground, his teammates pushing him from behind, as usual. As Hurts stretched the ball ahead, trying to gain more yardage, Giants defender Kayvon Thibodeaux r

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