“I Felt Like the Most Helpless Human Being Ever”: Chiefs Star Travis Kelce Knocks NFL’s Unpopular Door

Philadelphia Eagles‘ playbook led the NFL world to contemplate permanently banning a certain play. The infamous Tush Push quarterback sneak allows the Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts to push forward as two to three players line up behind him. The sneak came across as one of the Eagles’ deadliest weapons, scoring two amazing touchdowns on the biggest stage of all. As many around the league suspected, the QB sneak is under siege by the NFL. With the league’s Competition Committee gathering ahead of the NFL combine, the Tush Push is being looked at.

The eventual Super Bowl champions, Kansas City Chiefs, have the foremost authority on calling out this particular play. During the recent episode of their podcast, ‘New Heights’, the Kelce brothers looked at the ongoing discussion around the ‘QB sneak’, and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce had a rather interesting take.

Travis Kelce wanted to run it

The Kelce brothers made history, as they became the first set of brothers to face other in the Super Bowl finals. Representing opposing sides, both the Kelce brothers were all too familiar with the Tush Push QB sneak, and they certainly made their thoughts known.

Jason Kelce kickstarted the discussion by listing the efficiency of the QB sneak, “Meaning you are still going to be able to push the quarterback sneaks. 92 percenters, the 92 percent play is still going to be in effect next year.”

Having seen the play intensively, Jason wanted his brother to chime in, “What do you think as someone who doesn’t do it but you saw it happen?”

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Kelce explained that the Chiefs tried replicating the play, but it didn’t work as expected, “Doesn’t do it, we tried to do this. I think it was the AFC championship game we tried to game for it in third and short, yeah I lined up as full-back, did the tight end motion into an under-center, and tried to push and it wasn’t going anywhere. I felt like the most helpless human being ever like I couldn’t help out at all. I’m like I’m trying man but there’s no movement right here. We are pushing a brick wall man.”

Travis Kelce’s remarks clarified that the play might work wonders for the Eagles, recreating it is indeed a difficult process.

Should the play be banned?

Many within the league disagree with the play, as the Eagles seem pretty much unstoppable running it. They converted 36 of 39 QB sneaks with Hurts last year, accounting for a conversion rate of 92.3%.

The Philadelphia Eagles are well aware of the scrutiny surrounding their play, and Jason Kelce made his thoughts known on the matter.

“This actually brings up part of why I think it wasn’t banned, you know I was down at the combine, all these owners, the rule committees they’re meeting down there, and the word coming out of the combine was that it was pretty split.”

Jason Kelce went on to state that many teams within the NFL don’t agree with the play being banned. He expressed that the players and the teams understand that the play is not as easy as it’s being played up in the media.

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