The Eagles lost Jason Kelce to retirement and the play they made infamous - the Brotherly Shove - may suffer without him on the field.
The Eagles unveiled it twice against the Ravens with the backups in, and it was successful both times, with Kenny Pickett engineering it once and Tanner McKee executing later in a 16-13 win in the preseason opener. The Eagles converted another fourth-and-one with a simple handoff to Lew Nichols in that game.
This year, even though Kelce is gone, Dickerson is back, and the right guard may be someone just as big as Dickerson, and that is Mekhi Becton. We just don’t know how often the Eagles will attempt it because they don’t show it during team drills in practice and Sirianni has elected not to play his starters in the first two preseason games. Even if the first-team plays in Saturday’s game against the Vikings – highly unlikely – it’s doubtful Sirianni would show the Shove, anyway.
The Eagles converted 37 of their 40 Shove attempts for a 92.5 percent success rate in 2023. Whether they reach that high of a percentage, or even attempt it that many times, remains to be seen.
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