The Green Bay Packers are the NFL's trendsetters. They tried to eliminate the Tush Push before it was cool to hate it.
Micah Parsons gets it. He had to deal with the Philadelphia Eagles' boring, unimaginative, incorrectly officiated play twice a year while playing in the NFC East. Now, the Eagles have taken the "Brotherly Shove" to absurd new levels, and the rest of the league is waking up to it.
Beyond the fact that it has become a pure snoozefest every time they run the play, it is also creating an issue where refs are missing blatant false-start penalties. Parsons said the quiet part out loud when he met with reporters on Thursday.
"I hate that play. The whole league hates that play," Parsons said. "I don't think you'll find one defensive player in the league that's like, 'Oh, go tush push. We've got to learn how to stop it.' You can't stop it if they're leaving early. It's impossible. It's an unfair advantage. You've got 320-pound momentum coming early on the play, like whatever."
Micah Parsons says what every Packers fan thinks about the Tush Push
The Eagles regularly get away with not only lining up in the neutral zone, but then firing off the snap before the center has moved. Defenses don't stand a chance when the offense can fly into the defensive line before the ball is snapped.
"How many times has a guy got to leave early for them to call it?" Parsons added. "It's crazy, bro. You can hit the quarterback in the face by accident, like put your hand up, and they call roughing the passer. But an offensive lineman can jam your neck back like this, and it's nothing."
The NFL is supposedly taking a stricter stance on officiating the Tush Push, but there was precious little evidence of that during the Eagles' loss to the New York Giants on Thursday Night Football in Week 6.
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It shone a bright, primetime spotlight on the farce. At one stage, the Eagles ran four straight Tush Pushes. Eventually they got into the end zone, but their linemen were already in a different zip code by the time the ball was snapped.
The Packers get it. They tried to tell everyone. Now the league is finally seeing what Green Bay, and Parsons, have known all along.
In the short term, it's hard to see much getting done about it. The refs will take a tougher stance for now — they called a false start on a Pittsburgh Steelers' Tush Push attempt on TNF — but it's hard to have confidence that will last.
But when Green Bay, or another team, inevitably calls for the league's most boring play to be banished for good, maybe the league will finally listen.
Parsons is 100 percent correct. How long will it take for the refs to start officiating the play properly? The NFL won't admit it, but everyone is beginning to figure out what Parsons has known for years.