Nick Sirianni sends forceful message to former Eagles assistants on Tush Push ban vote

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni hopes that three former assistant coaches show support for the Tush Push rule ahead of it being voted on by the 32 NFL teams. Mike Garafolo of the NFL Network spoke to Sirianni about the upcoming vote and called out his former assistants who are now head coaches.

“We’ll see how it goes. All I will say about it is (Jonathan) Gannon, (Shane) Steichen and (Kellen) Moore better vote for it,” Sirianni said while smiling. “They are in the (head coach) position right now because of that play. So all three, I better have those three votes right there and the Eagles’ vote. I at least know we have four.”

Gannon, the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, was the Eagles’ defensive coordinator from 2021 to 2022. Steichen, the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, was the Eagles’ offensive coordinator from 2021 to 2022 also. Moore was the Eagles’ offensive coordinator this past season and is now the head coach of the New Orleans Saints.

The Tush Push has helped the Eagles win the Super Bowl in February, but there has been some backlash from a few teams, specifically the Green Bay Packers, who filed a proposal to ban the Tush Push. After the Packers filed the proposal last month, Nick Sirianni spoke to reporters about the move.

Nick Sirianni explains what goes into the Tush Push

“I can’t tell you how many times we’ve practiced the snap, we’ve practiced the play — it’s not a play that’s easy to practice, so there’s different ways we’ve figured out how to practice it — the complements that come off of it that can create explosive plays,” he said, per ESPN. “The fact that it’s [portrayed] as an automatic thing, we work really hard, and our guys are talented at this play, and so it’s a little insulting to say we’re good at it so it’s automatic. We work really hard at it.”

The NFL owners will vote on the proposal this week at the annual league meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. If the proposal goes to a vote, 24 of the 32 NFL owners would have to vote in favor for it to pass, per ESPN. The NFL competition committee has examined the play in previous years, but no changes have been made.

ESPN Research noted that the Eagles have run 108 Tush Push plays since 2022. The Tush Push is where a team lines up one or more players behind the quarterback to push him forward against the defense.