Eagles put 'exciting' twist on tush push for 2 TDs

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Philadelphia Eagles scored connected a brace of backmost sneak fakes successful Sunday's 31-25 triumph against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, showing there's much to the tush propulsion than a gait and a unreality of dust.

"It's an breathtaking play. Makes it beauteous exciting, right?" said manager Nick Sirianni, utilizing the infinitesimal to enactment a play that has its just stock of detractors crossed the league.

The archetypal saltation came midway done the archetypal quarter. Quarterback Jalen Hurts got successful an diversion stance nether halfway connected first-and-goal arsenic if helium was astir to sneak it but alternatively passed it underhand to choky extremity Dallas Goedert, who followed a caravan of blockers into the extremity zone.

"I was truly blessed we got it called," Goedert said. "I deliberation we enactment it successful astir 4 years ago, possibly five, erstwhile the unit archetypal got present and it worked to perfection."

The Eagles faced a 3rd-and-1 from the Bucs' six gait enactment precocious successful the 3rd quarter. Philadelphia lined up successful the tush propulsion enactment but this clip Hurts handed it disconnected to Saquon Barkley, who ran to the extracurricular and waltzed into extremity portion untouched.

"Great telephone by KP [offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo]," said Barkley. "It's an reply that we person and it's decidedly going to enactment teams on...teams are alert of it excessively now."

The Green Bay Packers submitted a connection to prohibition the propulsion sneak this offseason -- an effort that fell abbreviated by 2 votes. The play has remained nether scrutiny this season, including pursuing the Eagles' Week 2 triumph implicit the Kansas City Chiefs erstwhile manager Andy Reid suggested Philadelphia "got disconnected early" connected aggregate sneaks against them. Shortly thereafter, the NFL sent retired a memo instructing officials to telephone the play "tight" going forward.

Though immoderate successful the league intelligibly don't similar it, Sirianni pointed to the play's popularity. He adjacent saw a Pepsi commercialized featuring the tush propulsion portion watching the Steelers-Vikings crippled Sunday portion the squad was en way to Raymond James Stadium.

"It seems similar fans similar the play," Sirianni said, "and it was beauteous breathtaking contiguous to get a touchdown walk disconnected it, oregon 2 runs that travel disconnected of it, to marque that play what it is."