Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nEagles left tackle Jordan Mailata lashed out against the rising anti-Tush Push chatter, calling all the focus on the controversial play\u2019s effect on the 20-17 road win over the Chiefs as \u201cdisrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand the outrage. What I don\u2019t understand is them using it as an excuse to why we won the game. I think it\u2019s incredibly disrespectful to our defence and our special teams who balled out,\u201d Mailata said on 94 WIP. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy brothers on defence and special teams who balled out that game, who had our backs when we weren\u2019t moving the ball or weren\u2019t doing anything. When I see those things, they fly across my timeline, here and there \u2026. that kind of irks me a little bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat pisses me off because we give so much to this game and to kind of base off a short-yardage play, that is a football play, and say that we won the game off that, but not how our defence played and not how our special teams have played, putting us in those positions. I think it\u2019s bull crap. \u2026 I just think it\u2019s rubbish. Absolute rubbish, man. It makes my blood boil just thinking about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Tush Push is the most polarising play in the NFL and it tends to be discussed ad nauseam after it plays a large role in an Eagles win.<\/p>\n
ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter said earlier in the week that he believes the tush push is \u201con life support\u201d and even when as far as to claim on \u2018Get Up\u2019 that Kansas City lost the game against Philadelphia in March when a vote to ban the move didn\u2019t go through.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis game was lost when the NFL owners refused to ban the tush push from happening. It wasn\u2019t lost yesterday,\u201d Schefter said.<\/p>\n
Mailata wasn\u2019t having any of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t give a f— what Adam Schefter says, to be honest,\u201d Mailata said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI ain\u2019t the one calling the plays on my team. … Pardon my language, pardon my French. I\u2019m not calling the plays, and I don\u2019t care what Adam Schefter says. Sorry about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then, Mailata issued a challenge to the other teams in the league.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy can\u2019t they convert?\u201d Mailata asked. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou could do it. Let me do this. You guys can do it. This is my official plea to all the teams out there. You can run the tush push just like we can.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Eagles used the play seven times Sunday in their win in the Super Bowl rematch, and plenty of folks focused on one particular snap in which the interior members of the Eagles\u2019 line jump early.<\/p>\n
Kansas City fans on social media noted how the NFL allegedly used copyright tactics to pull the clip from social media.<\/p>\n
Chiefs star defensive lineman Chris Jones, who had a spat with Jalen Hurts in the final moments, said that Kansas City believed the Eagles got a good whistle.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe think he jumped multiple times,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Games like Sunday may lead to even more chatter about whether the play should be banned<\/p>\n
NFL owners did not pass a resolution to prohibit that play, allowing the Eagles \u2014 and others, though not as successfully \u2014 to continue to use the tactic.<\/p>\n
This article first appeared on The New York Post<\/a>and was reproduced with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All the Tush Push chatter is riling this Eagle\u2019s feathers. Watch an average 6 games per week and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-151687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}