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The Kevin Sheehan Show

Looks like the tush push is staying for another year. How Kevin would "fix" this play

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

News, Sports

4.7696 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

2.23.26, Kevin Sheehan talks about the tush push play possibly staying for the foreseeable future and what he would do to stop it moving forward.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, Rich McKay, who is the co-chairman of the NFL Competition Committee, they had a competition

0:08.0

committee meeting in Indianapolis yesterday, and I guess there are further meetings this week,

0:13.8

but there was a lot that came out of it. And it started with the big story that maybe you've

0:20.1

seen at this point that is surprising to me,

0:22.9

although I guess there was some momentum building for this during the course of the season,

0:27.7

but Rich McKay, the NFL Competition Committee co-chairman, said that he's not, not anticipating

0:36.1

an attempt like there was last year, and they got very close,

0:41.3

to banning the Tush Push play this year. He said, quote, there's no team proposal that I've seen from it,

0:52.5

so I wouldn't envision it, but you never know.

0:56.8

Schefter, I don't remember this, but Schefter reported back in September that there were no

1:01.0

assurances of reviving the Tush Push debate in 2026. But remember the game that everybody

1:09.3

seemed like, Jesus, they might do something in season.

1:12.9

Was that early season game between the Eagles and the Chiefs, a rematch of the Super Bowl,

1:18.8

and the Eagles basically converted four tush pushes, or there were four attempts where the game

1:26.1

just kind of came to a screeching halt

1:28.0

and there were penalties that weren't called. I'm telling you in that moment I'm like,

1:32.6

this is done. We're not going to see this in 2026. Not according to Rich McKay. He says

1:42.8

that there's no real vitriol for it like there was last year.

1:48.4

Now, the obvious, like, I think response from anybody that watched the entirety of the NFL season would be,

1:55.7

well, that's because defenses figured it out.

1:59.2

They started to stop it.

2:00.9

And so the teams that used it the most, Philly, Buffalo, and some others stopped running it as much.

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