Earlier in the season when the Buffalo Bills marched into Philadelphia to take on the Eagles, there was a substantial controversy. To start with, lets summarize the incident: in the first quarter of the game, Buffalo defensive tackle Jordan Phillips jumped offside on one of Philadelphia’s patented “tush push” plays. Rather than try to stop his momentum, Phillips drove through the legs of Philadelphia offenive guard Cam Jurgen‘s legs. The play was called dead and an encroachment penalty was called against the Phillips and the Bills.
Following the game, Philadelphia center Jason Kelce spoke with local radio show WIP and address the play. Kelce said that Phillips did something that “shouldn’t be allowed.” Kelce also added “I said so to the official on the field. I said, ‘Listen I’ve been running that play a lot of years. I have seen people jump offsides. He made zero effort to stop after he jumped offsides.’ He purposely tried to hurt Cam Jurgens. I thought it should have been a personal foul.” An encroachment was the only penalty called on the play.
Bills Jordan Phillips responds to Eagles Center
Finally after several weeks, Phillips has spoken out about how he feels about the allegations passed on him by Kelce:
“For (Kelce) to speak on somebody being dirty, I don’t think he has any right or any means to call for a fine when he does a whole bunch of stuff. I think it’s crazy for him to even mention that,” Phillips said, per RochesterFirst.com. “I’m 335lbs how am I going to stop regardless? … How do I know that the ball wasn’t going? After I saw the ball move I put my eyes on him and I’m going to go.”
Jason Kelce ripped Jordan Phillips for not backing off when Phillips jumped offside against the Eagles.
Kelce accused Phillips of trying to injure.Phillips: “That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.”
And the #Bills DT had plenty more to say.https://t.co/gKmBjPbOq0
— Thad Brown (@thadbrown7) December 7, 2023
Jordan Phillips responded to Jason Kelce accusations Phillips was trying to injure on Tush Push offside.
Phillips thinks Kelce has no right to accuse others of playing dirty.
“He dives at knees every (Tush Push)…
You can dish it out, but can’t take it? That’s soft.”#Bills pic.twitter.com/OuSVFMfZvy— Thad Brown (@thadbrown7) December 6, 2023
As much as I enjoy Kelce as a personality, I have to agree with Phillips. The reason that the quarterback sneak run by Philadelphia is so effective is no defense has figured out an effective strategy to combat it. While he may have been early, Phillips certainly had the right idea.
The best way to stop the quarterback sneak is fairly simple: scorched earth. Basically bring in an extra defensive lineman so it is five on five and have all five of them do exactly what Phillips did (except on time). This will create a pile similarly to the way it does now except there will be nowhere for the Philadelphia running backs to push anyway. It will be a wall of ten 300-pound men (totaling one and a half tons I might add) to try to ask quarterback Jalen Hurts to move.
The point I would make toward Kelce is that the Eagles won the game and they won the play in question (5 yard penalty provided the Eagles with a first down). There was no need to call out the opposing team afterwards for it.
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