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Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach and Hall of Famer Bill Cowher ripped the “Tush Push” during an interview with Dan Patrick on Monday.
The tush push controversy is back in the news after the Philadelphia Eagles’ 20-17 win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. Several Eagles players should’ve been called for a false start on tush push late in the Eagles’ win over Kansas City.
“I have been against the play for two years,” Cowher said. “I’ve made my feelings quite known. It’s not a football play. It’s a scrum. When they had that in rugby, Dan, you know what they did? They eliminated the scrum. They took it out because it wasn’t a safe play. We keep it in the NFL. Make sense of that one. … Are we going to have to wait for some catastrophic injury to change it? I don’t think it’s a good-looking play.
“I know that Philadelphia is good at it. It has nothing to do with the Philadelphia Eagles for me. But, you know, I think you saw that play yesterday. How many times did we see it because of our technology today that they are leaving before the snap. I don’t know how we can somehow look at that play and understand that it is an injury waiting to happen, I think, personally, and it isn’t even a good-looking play.”
"I've been against the play (Tush Push) for two years, I've made my feelings quite known. It's not a football play, it's a scrum."
– @CowherCBS on the Tush Push. pic.twitter.com/NwGCQwnfSC
— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) September 15, 2025
Tom Brady, who was announcing the game for FOX, blasted the officials for the missed call.
The ‘Brotherly Shove’ is awfully impossible to stop,” Brady said on the broadcast. “When you get a false start penalty like that, it’s even harder to stop. They missed that one pretty bad.”
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid was also lived.
“You try to get penetration, is what you try to do, to be able to stop [the tush push],” Reid said. “They might’ve had a couple of ‘em that they got off early on, but we’ll look at that.”
Fox rules analyst Dean Blandino also called out the tush push during the game.
“I am done with the tush push, guys. It’s a hard play to officiate,” Blandino said.
"I am done with the tush push, guys. It's a hard play to officiate." – Fox rules analyst Dean Blandino, after the Eagles secure a win over the Chiefs pic.twitter.com/xIZrB5gaLe
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) September 14, 2025
Steelers president Art Rooney II said in March that the Steelers were in favor of banning the tush push. However, the measure failed to get the required 75% of votes to pass. Rooney shared his feelings about the matter when the play was officially not banned during an owners meetings in May.
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