Admit The Truth Already. The Tush Push Doesn't Suck, Refs Just Suck At Doing Their Job
Mitchell Leff. Getty Images.The best thing you could ever hope for as a fan of an NFL team is for every other fanbase around the league to despise your team. If your team isn't aggressively hated by everybody else, then it means one of just a couple things. Either A) your team sucks, and everybody just feels bad for you like the Jets. 2) Your team is irrelevant, and everybody forgets you exist like the Cardinals. Or D) Your team is good, but nobody thinks they'll ever actually win a Super Bowl like the Bills. Nobody hates the Bills because they are a fun team to watch on a weekly basis to see some high level football being played, but you don't have to worry about them having any sort of tremendous success in the playoffs which would spark a jealous rage.
And that brings us to the Philadelphia Eagles. If we want to boil the hatred for the Eagles down to the source, it's not because of the Tush Push. It's not because nobody knows how to properly rank Jalen Hurts amongst the other top quarterbacks in the league. It's not because of Nick Sirianni's bravado that often comes around as an annoying cocky middle school boy. The main reason why everybody hates the Philadelphia Eagles is because the Eagles win. Week in and week out, this team constantly finds ways to win way more games than the occasional loss. Other fanbases around the league are filled to the brim with an envious rage, and the only way they know how to release all that rage is in the form of hatred. I believe the kids would refer to that as "cope".
So with all of that in mind, I just want everybody to be completely honest with themselves. I need you all to put that guard down, and just admit the truth. The Tush Push is a great play. Football fans love to cream their pants over the idea that football is a "game of inches". Where here is the perfect play that is surgically executed to pick up those crucial inches when you need them the most. You don't hate the Tush Push. You don't think it's a bad play. The issue right now is that the refs just suck dick at their job.
"Oh it's such a hard play to officiate".
No it's not. No it is not. Literally every single time the Tush Push gets run, everybody watching at home immediately knows if somebody jumped. Everybody watching at home knows that Jalen Hurts got lucky on this one yesterday, because that was 100% a fumble. It's not a difficult play to officiate. It's pretty easy, actually. That play takes like 3 seconds, and all it happens directly in front of you. It's pretty difficult to miss anything.
It feels like there is more and more momentum right now to ban the Tush Push after this season. And if that ends up being the case, then whatever. It is what it is. But I just need everybody to be honest. I need everybody to admit that the Tush Push isn't being banned because it's "not a football play". I need everybody to admit that the Tush Push isn't being banned because it's "bad for player safety". I need everybody to admit they want this play out of the game because the Eagles are too good at running it, and the refs are too dog shit at officiating it. I can live with that as an Eagles fan if everybody just admits they want it out of the game because they are being whiny little bitches.
Sidenote: While it was a really bad decision for Jalen to reach the ball out on that particular Tush Push, let's just talk about the day he had yesterday.
7 passing touchdowns in his last 2 games. A perfect passer rating last week, 4 touchdowns through the air this week without any turnovers. And sure, maybe Jahan Dotson had to make a ridiculous play to haul in this touchdown. But that's what happens when you trust your receivers to go up there and make a play.
Crazy to see how fluid and efficient this offense looks when one guy isn't holding the team hostage and demanding to get the ball all the time.