Travis and Jason Kelce slam 'bogus' efforts to get the 'tush push' banned from the NFL

Travis and Jason Kelce are not connected committee with the efforts to person the 'tush push' banned from the NFL.

The short-yardage play - which has been astir often and successfully utilized by the Eagles successful caller seasons - has drawn important criticism, with the Packers proposing a prohibition connected it this offseason. Owners tabled the contented astatine league meetings this week, opting alternatively to ballot connected it alternatively successful May, per aggregate reports.

Nonetheless, erstwhile Philly halfway Jason criticized the run to prohibition the play, and slammed the conception that it was posing a wellness hazard to players arsenic 'kind of bogus.'

'I get it. I get wherefore definite teams wanna prohibition it for competitory reasons,' helium began connected the latest occurrence of New Heights. 'I get wherefore immoderate radical deliberation that it's perchance unsafe. I deliberation optically, it looks unsafe. 

'For maine personally, I ne'er felt similar there's that overmuch much of a hazard of injuring idiosyncratic connected the play. And I don't deliberation there's immoderate statistic to backmost that up. So anybody saying that it's gonna pb to much injuries is axenic conjecture, not rooted successful fact.'

While determination is presently nary conclusive information showing that the play leads to injuries, Bills manager Sean McDermott told reporters this week that the play should beryllium banned successful the involvement of subordinate safety, and that the NFL should beryllium 'proactive.' The Bills often utilized the play past season.

Jason, who often ran the play successful the second stages of his vocation aft the Eagles popularized it successful 2022, argued the play was not the benignant of 'high-impact collision' that mostly causes injuries.

Travis besides delivered an impassioned defence of the 'tush push.' 

'There are 4 downs that a squad gets to get a archetypal down, oregon get successful the extremity zone. If the 'tush push' is conscionable 1 play that you tally erstwhile you person a abbreviated yardage situation, those whitethorn travel up a fistful of times passim a game, and it's like, you can't get upset astatine that 1 play,' helium said.

'I recognize the whole, if you wanna accidental it's not harmless - shot isn't a harmless crippled to play. So I cognize we're trying to marque it safer oregon whatever, it is what it is. I deliberation it's a shot benignant of play, it's a toughness play that you request to beryllium successful sync with the guys adjacent to you and the guys astir you... I don't deliberation we request to beryllium banning this. 

Jason, meanwhile, said the play 'perfectly represents' the benignant of shot helium likes, but was much sympathetic to arguments of a 'competitive advantage.'

'I deliberation the lone statement I spot for perchance banning it is, is determination a competitory advantage? Is it unfair that players tin push, and should we let players to propulsion alternatively than ball-carriers oregon anybody to person to bash things connected their own,' Jason said.

'But that's gonna beryllium a hard regularisation to enforce, similar erstwhile is that enforced? Are pack tackles outlawed? Are unfastened field, similar erstwhile large [Chiefs center] Creed Humphrey gets down a moving backmost and he's pushing the heap forward, bash we not privation that? Because I similar that. I deliberation it's hard to cognize wherever bash you halt this from occurring. You can't conscionable accidental similar hey, you can't bash the 'tush push'. That feels similar a hard rule. It needs to beryllium a regularisation that's enforceable passim football.'

Jason besides said helium was 'tired' of the treatment astir the play, and noted that antiaircraft players are allowed to propulsion 1 different during the 'tush push,' portion pushing has been banned connected tract extremity attempts.

The Eagles are not the lone NFL squad to person utilized the 'tush push', though they are surely the franchise astir intimately associated with the play.

According to ESPN, 65 of the 101 'tush push' calls past play came from the Eagles and Bills combined, and Philly has scored 27 touchdowns utilizing it the past 3 years.