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Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton has to figure out how to stop it this week, but he has no problem with the Philadelphia Eagles’ patented, and controversial, tush push play.

In fact, for all those believing the play could result in player safety issues, Payton thinks the exact opposite.

"The reason I stood up in favor of it is pretty simple," he said, via Sports Radio 94WIP . "If the powers to be don’t want it for aesthetic reasons or competitive reasons, you know, [that] it’s hard to officiate etcetera … but I’ve been involved in those meetings for a long time, and when all of a sudden health and safety was pulled into that – which might be the safest play in football – my bulls--- nose kind of went up."

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