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Brigid Kennedy

Nick Sirianni Likens Banning Tush Push to Banning This NBA Star From Shooting Threes

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni on Feb 5, 2025. | Bill Streicher-Imagn Images

Philadelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni has made no secret of his contempt for the proposed tush push ban, a suggestion submitted last month by the Green Bay Packers. In team CEO Mark Murphy's estimation, the tush push—the Birds' version of a quarterback sneak—is an automatic, skill-less play, despite it being available to every team in the league.

Sirianni, of course, took issue with this characterization and has said his guys work very hard to perfect the tush push and make it so it is "automatic." And if it really were a cheat code, as the Packers' proposal suggests, wouldn't every team in the league be able to do it?

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