LOS ANGELES — There's nothing subtle about the shove.
One of the plays the Philadelphia Eagles run in short-yardage situations is a sneak with a pair of players immediately behind the quarterback, each poised to push on his backside as soon as the ball is snapped.
It's the "double-cheek push," or at least that's how NBC's Cris Collinsworth described it a few weeks ago, and it's emblematic of what we're seeing all over the NFL this season. Instead of traditional blocking schemes, these surging clusters of humanity turn the ball carrier into a cork bobbing in a wave.
