The Lions’ defense stopped the Eagles’ tush push twice on Sunday, and on two other occasions the Eagles lined up to tush push but got called for false start penalties, as Detroit showed that Philadelphia’s Brotherly Shove isn’t as unstoppable as it sometimes seems. Lions defensive lineman Alim McNeill says there was nothing fancy about Detroit’s defensive success.

“There’s no scheme to defending the tush push, just more of a want-to. Just the willing and want to get down there and stop the play. There’s no scheme to it, we just wanted to stop it. we didn’t want them to run the tush push four times and get it all four times,” McNeill said.

McNeill said any time the Eagles were in a tush push situation, the Lions brought out their “big base defense” of himself, DJ Reader, Tyleik Williams a

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