Micah Parsons is officially weighing in on the “tush push” debate.
The Philadelphia Eagles sparked backlash during this week’s “Thursday Night Football” game against the New York Giants. In the second quarter at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., the Eagles had a 3rd-and-1 from the Giants’ 3-yard line.
They ran two tush pushes with quarterback Jalen Hurts to get the first down. Then from the Giants’ 1-yard line, they ran two more tush pushes with Hurts to successfully get the ball into the end zone.
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The Green Bay Packers star Parsons had a strong reaction to the sequence of four straight tush pushes.
“This is not football!” wrote Parsons on X, along with a couple of “trash” emojis.
This is not football!
— Micah Parsons (@MicahhParsons11) October 10, 2025
The tush push, which is the Eagles’ go-to play in short-yardage situations, has become an increasingly divisive topic. Rival teams have (unsuccessfully) attempted to get the play banned, and the number of false starts that Philadelphia continues to get away with on the tush push has even further increased the opposition to it.
Tush push critics also point to the injuries that sometimes result from the tush push and liken the play more so to rugby than to football. Now it appears that four-time NFL Pro Bowler Parsons is officially in that camp as well.
