Jalen Hurts doesn’t call it the Tush Push. No, he likes to keep it standard: The quarterback sneak. But the only thing standard about the play that involves Hurts getting shoved by a teammate or two in the physical region that defies verbal grace is the consistency with which the Philadelphia Eagles pick up first downs,

NFL owners narrowly failed to pass a proposal to prohibit the tush push. The fate of the short-yardage strategy was on the agenda at their spring meetings.

The Eagles, according to a post on X from ESPN’s Adam Schefter, made one final plea to keep the play in the game with the help of former center Jason Kelce. Schefter wrote that Kelce went to Minnesota to “lobby NFL owners as to why they should keep, and not ban, the Tush Push play.”