Breaking News: Jason Kelce talks tush push, why Eagles’ controversial play could be banned…see more

Jason Kelce spoke with USA TODAY Sports and noted that plenty of people are upset with the “tush push,” while also giving a reason for its potential ban.

“If they can’t officiate it properly, that would certainly be a reason to ban it,” Kelce told USA TODAY Sports. “That’s the reality of it.”

While he didn’t specifically say what the league’s ruling should be on the play, Kelce did express concern about whether a ban fixes anything. “Does removing the push affect the issues that people are having officiating it?” Kelce questioned. “I don’t know that removes …

everybody has an issue with the false starts. Kelce pointed out that he isn’t certain the play would’ve been called differently if it was a traditional quarterback sneak.

“Now if people just want to punish the Eagles because they’re getting away with a lot of bad calls, I certainly understand that,” Kelce said. “But I also haven’t seen the struggling to officiate it with other teams running it.

The Eagles aren’t the only team that run it, but very coincidentally I often see only the Eagles being brought up online. I think that probably has more to do with the Eagles being better at it than anyone else.”