
Jalen Hurts Does Not Call the Tush Push the Tush Push
The champs were on Fallon Tuesday night:
.@saquon is the “pusher” for @JalenHurts’ “tush” 😭 @Eagles #FallonTonight #SBLIX #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/3o5Ql2Wc3u
— The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) February 12, 2025
The segment was okay. Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley are too calm and relaxed to play along with the late night talk show shenanigans. Hurts just isn’t a media tour type of guy, which is perfectly fine. He’d rather be at home listening to Frankie Beverly and Anita Baker.
At some point last year, or maybe it was 2023, there was a movement to stop calling it the tush push and use “Brotherly Shove” instead. That caught on and it seemed like it was going to take over entirely. But… I don’t know. I’m not sure what happened. I think fans and media started using both terms because it just makes it easier to have a synonym, so you don’t have to write or say “tush push” OR “Brotherly Shove” 17 times in a row. Slay later revealed on his podcast that they call the formation “Snoopy,” while Hurts simply calls it “quarterback sneak.”
The Eagles could ask media to use something different if they wanted to, and get rid of tush push entirely, but they’d have to really hate the term to ask for something like that. It’s not like an official request to now refer to Ron Artest as “Metta World Peace.” They’ve got their playbook and play calls and fans and media will come up with colloquialisms of their own. It is what it is. What’s important is that the play is unstoppable.