Via the primary three-plus weeks of the 2025 NFL season, a number of storylines have emerged. A type of is how effectively particular groups have fared previously two weeks, as Week 3 noticed a number of blocked area objective makes an attempt, in addition to a couple of kick returns for touchdowns. That pattern continued as Week 4 started with Isaiah Rodgers, the NFC’s Defensive Participant of the Week throughout Week 3, blocked a area objective try from the Pittsburgh Steelers in a recreation in Dublin.
One other storyline? The Tush Push, and the way effectively the Philadelphia Eagles stay at operating a play that was amost voted out of the league over the summer season.
Through the Week 2 recreation between the Eagles and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, a rematch of Tremendous Bowl LIX, the Tush Push jolted again into the nationwide dialog as officers might have missed penalties every time Philadelphia ran the play, together with potential penalties on Kansas Metropolis for utilizing a pretend cadence.
Nonetheless, after this play future opponents of Philadelphia have one thing else to consider.
With the Eagles going through a third and 1 deep in Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ territory on Sunday, the Philadelphia offense line up as they do for the Tush Push. However the offense had different concepts. As a substitute of shoving quarterback Jalen Hurts forwards, the Eagles quarterback as a substitute handed off to Saquon Barkley, who skipped untouched across the left edge and into the top zone: