I personally don't think there is anything wrong with the Tush-Push. Every team can do the same. Defenders like Parsons don't like it because it makes them useless.
Plus, someone ought to remind Spears that technically there is a hold on just about every NFL play and the refs don't call it. If they put a high-speed camera on the line of scrimmage, I'd bet they'd find there is early movement on just about every play, too. It's not just when the Tush-Push happens but the Tush-Push is being singled out.
To me, it's not much different than when, just as an example, the Niners really popularized the West Coast short passing game (I know it actually started in Cincy).
Most teams in the NFL still had big bruising, stop-the-run, LBs. The LBs couldn't keep up. The Niners had an advantage. I didn't see anyone cry about it. Instead, the West Coast was adopted and modified by many teams.
These are supposedly smart defensive coaches. Find a way to stop it. IDK, use an OL like Tyler Smith to stack the DL with bigger bodies. Figure it out.
I think it is nonsense. I'd rather focus on bullshit like how every ticky-tacky sack seems to be a roughing the passer penalty. Or safeties can no longer enforce the middle, or the pass interference calls are too damn tick-tacky now.
Give the defense a fair playing field in those other areas. Stop allowing a Patrick Mahomes to tease the defense. Take it right to the very last second, and they pop out of bounds (that cost Cincy), but it's a penalty on the defender. Oh, and then Mahomes doesn't take it out of bounds and the defender looks silly.
Go back to the old rules that Fran Tarkenton and Roger Staubach played under. You run, you're fair game. No sliding. You slide, the defender is within a yard, he still gets to pop you. You'll slide no more, but instead lower your shoulder like everyone else.
Those are the things that irritate me far more than the Tush-Push. If they fix those areas then maybe Philly won't be in a position to do the Tush-Push as often.
I think Troy once said, out of frustration, knowing he probably could have played 20 years with these rules. "They might as well put skirts on the QBs" or something to that effect.
