The Philadelphia Eagles have made the ‘tush push’ or ‘brotherly shove’ notorious over the course of recent years, and after their Super Bowl 59 triumph, the game’s MVP Jalen Hurts and running back Saquon Barkley elaborated on the play on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Hurts said that the Eagles have an alternate name for it that every other person does, and that he won’t disclose that.

“You know, I won’t express out loud whatever I call it, yet everyone came up with their own name for it, you know, the brotherly shove, the tush push, all these different things,” Jalen Hurts said. “It isn’t so much that.”

“I’m the one who pushes the tush.”

Saquon Barkley on his role in the Super Bowl champs’ patented play 😅

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Barkley, who approached the Hawks from the New York Giants this season, said he knew it as the ‘tush push’ prior to joining the team also, and that he was shocked to learn of the real name.

“I was stunned as well,” Saquon Barkley said. “Since I arrived, I knew it as the tush push. I couldn’t say whether that would be called, yet I thought it was called that, and it’s not called the tush push, in fact.”

While portraying his role in the play, Barkley made Fallon and the entire team chuckle.

“I assume I have the simplest work, frankly,” Barkley said. “I believe I’m the person who pushes the tush.”

Barkley probably was denied some goal-line touches and touchdowns, yet he was as yet an enormous part of the Eagles’ success this season. Putting a running back like Barkley behind a first-class offensive line like the Eagles have was a recipe for a deadly run game.

The Eagles controlled the line of scrimmage on the two sides of the ball in virtually every game this season, and the ‘tush push’ being just about a programmed first down on short downs and distances is seemingly the play that exemplifies the actual benefit they had up front and more than anything.