On Thursday night against the Cowboys, the Eagles used their signature play twice. It worked both times, even if the first effort initially seemed to come up a little shorter than the spot.

Regardless, the tush push is back — less than four months after it survived by only two votes. Which means that 22 of the league’s 32 teams wanted to get rid of it.

Will the tush push survive 2025? The overriding question, as one source with knowledge of the assault on the play explained it to PFT, is whether and to what extent the tush push has an “unremarkable” year.

It largely did in 2024. It wasn’t until the Commanders decided to jump offside multiple times in the NFC Championship that the noise started regarding a potential ban. Within weeks after the Commanders were warned that another delibera

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