Eagles' Saquon Barkley shares simple message for critics of tush push

Philadelphia Eagles prima Saquon Barkley had a connection for critics arsenic squad owners volition determine connected whether to prohibition the tush push, which the squad has made celebrated implicit the past fewer seasons.

For Barkley, it was simple. If teams and players don’t similar it, enactment harder to halt it.

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Philadelphia Eagles moving backmost Saquon Barkley is interviewed aft defeating the Kansas City Chiefs successful Super Bowl LIX astatine Caesars Superdome. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

"If you don’t similar it, get amended astatine stopping it," the Super Bowl champion moving backmost told ESPN. "It’s not similar a play that we lone do. Everyone tries it, we’re conscionable ace palmy astatine it."

The Green Bay Packers submitted the connection to prohibition the play, which is usually utilized to propel backmost Jalen Hurts crossed the yard-to-gain oregon the extremity enactment for a touchdown. Owners tabled the treatment connected banning the play until their adjacent meeting, which takes spot connected May 20-21.

The Packers had 16 teams enactment its proposal, but a minimum of 24 owners indispensable o.k. the alteration for it to pass. 

Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts scores connected the tush propulsion against the San Francisco 49ers connected Dec. 3, 2023, astatine Lincoln Financial Field successful Philadelphia. (Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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President Donald Trump expressed enactment for the tush propulsion erstwhile the Eagles came to the White House to observe their Super Bowl LIX triumph against the Kansas City Chiefs.

"The Eagles scored a touchdown connected their signature play: the tush push. You cognize what that is? I anticipation they support that play, coach, I don’t know," Trump said, looking astatine Eagles caput manager Nick Sirianni. "They’re talking astir getting escaped of that play, I understand. They should support it. What bash you deliberation Saquon [Barkley]?

"I similar it. It’s benignant of breathtaking and different."

Philadelphia Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts scores a touchdown successful Super Bowl LIX against the Kansas City Chiefs, Feb. 9, 2025, successful New Orleans. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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The regularisation alteration would prohibit an violative subordinate from having the quality to instantly propulsion his teammate who is lined up straight down the snapper and receives the snap.

Fox News’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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