After the Super Bowl, tensions are rising as Nick Sirianni addresses the Green Bay Packers' controversial motion to ban the Tush Push. The Philadelphia Eagles' head coach is not holding back. Nick Sirianni has had very active days at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis.
The Green Bay Packers advocate banning the NFL's "tush push" play, causing pushback from Eagles' coach Nick Sirianni. Despite the play's controversy, Sirianni defends its skill-based success, which has lowered conversion rates.
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.
The Eagles' signature short-yardage call is back under the league microscope again after the Green Bay Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy openly wrote about his disdain for the play a few weeks ago, which was followed up with a Green Bay proposal to the NFL to ban it this past week .
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Philadelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni pushed back against the Green Bay Packers' proposal to ban the tush push.
Eagles offensive tackle Lane Johnson laughed at the idea of banning the Tush Push, but head coach Nick Sirianni feels insulted. The Green Bay Packers, a team the Eagles beat during their Super Bowl run this season, submitted a proposal to ban the play on Monday.
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni was furious about calls to ban the Tush Push, saying injury concerns "are a bit made up."
The reason they run it so well isn't because it's automatic, which is why head coach Nick Sirianni defended the play on Tuesday amidst its detractors.  "I almost feel a little insulted because we work so hard at that play,
INDIANAPOLIS — Philadelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni pushed back against the Green Bay Packers’ proposal to ban the tush push. “I’ve seen some of the stuff that it’s an automatic play ...
Philadelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni addressed the proposal to ban the “tush push” at the NFL combine Tuesday and called the effort “unfair.” Sirianni said the Eagles work “really, really hard” on the play and said it was almost “insulting” to suggest that it was “automatic.
Banning the tush push has been a topic of conversation around the NFL Scouting Combine this week and the idea has found some fans, but, as you’d imagine, Nick ... The Packers have introduced a proposal to outlaw the tush push, and Green Bay General ...