Eagles LT: Tush push chatter makes 'blood boil'

Philadelphia Eagles near tackle Jordan Mailata has had capable of the media communicative that his squad won Sunday's Super Bowl rematch against the Kansas City Chiefs due to the fact that of the tush push.

In an interrogation with 94 WIP connected Philadelphia connected Tuesday, Mailata said that is "incredibly disrespectful" to the interaction the Eagles' defence and peculiar teams had successful the 20-17 triumph astatine Kansas City.

"I recognize the outrage [over the tush push]. What I don't recognize is them utilizing it arsenic an excuse to wherefore we won the game. I deliberation it's incredibly disrespectful to our defence and our peculiar teams who balled out. And my brothers connected defence and peculiar teams who balled retired that game, who had our backs erstwhile we weren't moving the shot oregon weren't doing anything," Mailata said.

"That pisses maine disconnected due to the fact that we springiness truthful overmuch to this crippled and to benignant of basal disconnected a short-yardage play, that is simply a shot play," Mailata added, his dependable raising. "And accidental that we won the crippled disconnected that, but not however our defence played and not however our peculiar teams person played, putting america successful those positions. You cognize I deliberation it's bull crap.

"I conscionable deliberation it's rubbish. Absolute rubbish, man. It makes my humor boil conscionable reasoning astir it."

The turning constituent successful Sunday's crippled came via the defense. Early successful the 4th fourth with the Chiefs trailing 13-10, choky extremity Travis Kelce failed to haul successful Patrick Mahomes' walk adjacent the extremity line, the shot caroming disconnected his hands and into the possession of rookie information Drew Mukuba, who returned it 41 yards. Jalen Hurts scored via the tush propulsion connected the ensuing possession to instrumentality a commanding 10-point lead.

The Eagles ran the tush propulsion six times connected Sunday, gaining 4 archetypal downs and scoring the touchdown. Fox expert Tom Brady and Chiefs manager Andy Reid suggested Sunday that Eagles violative linemen were getting disconnected the enactment of scrimmage earlier the drawback but weren't penalized.

The play faced banishment this offseason, but the connection failed by 2 votes. The last ballot was 22-10 connected the proposal, which was submitted by the Green Bay Packers, astatine the NFL's yearly gathering successful Eagan, Minnesota successful May. The connection needed 24 votes to pass.

The Eagles person converted the play 96.6% of the clip successful fourth-and-1 scenarios since 2022.

ESPN's Tim McManus contributed to this report.