The Philadelphia Eagles’ “Tush Push” play has been copied by plenty of NFL teams, but the Buffalo Bills ran their own version of it to great effect against the Pittsburgh Steelers because of who was behind center and who was blocking for him.
Bills quarterback Josh Allen converted in short yardage against the Steelers during Buffalo’s AFC wild-card game on a Tush Push-esque play with the sheer force of being Josh Allen and the Bills.
He didn’t get the yardage at first thanks to a good hold from the Steelers’ vaunted defensive line, but Allen being Allen made up for it by lunging into the air and seemingly crowd-surfing to the first down with the help of his offensive linemen.
A new twist on the Tush Push
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Allen is one of the most impressive athletes at the position in the league, and plays like this show that there are few quarterbacks who can quite do it like this right now on any given formation.
While Allen got a little help from his friends on this one, it still shows what a spectacularly talented quarterback he is to make a conversion like this.
