New York coach Robert Saleh doesn’t know if the Jets can stop Jalen Hurts on the Philadelphia Eagles’ Brotherly Shove version of the quarterback sneak, but he wants his team to make sure the former Alabama standout feels it on Sunday.

“A lot of respect for it because there are other teams trying to do it, too,” Saleh said. “But the reality is they’re really good at it. It feels like the quarterback is wearing a bullet-proof vest when you look at him. He’s got all that padding on. We’re going to do our best to try to stop it.

“And they do a lot of stuff off it, too. They’ve got reverses, they got pop passes, they got stretch plays. They do a lot, so you got to be sound, you got to be disciplined, so we’ll do our best in that regard.

“But if the quarterback carries the ball, we got to give him 11 kisses, and just figure out a way to do that.”

In the Eagles’ quarterback sneak, when Hurts hits the line with the football, Philadelphia backs are behind him trying to churn forward, too. Aiding the ball-carrier by pushing used to be as illegal as pulling or carrying them. But in 2005, the NFL lifted its prohibition against pushing the ball-carrier.

The Eagles are the first team to make the change work as a regular part of their game plan.

“They got five Pro Bowlers on the offensive line and a really damn good offensive-line coach,” Saleh said when asked why Philadelphia’s play succeeds almost without fail while other teams have yet to master it. “And they play violent, they play aggressive. They got a quarterback who’s super strong in terms of creating leverage. I don’t think he feels pain when he gets hit, even though we’re going to try — legally. Legally. But he’s talented. The whole group is talented, so I think that’s the advantage they have.”

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The Eagles and Jets will square off at 3:25 p.m. CDT Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Philadelphia has a 5-0 record this season, and the Eagles haven’t lost a regular-season road game started by Hurts since a 13-7 setback to the New York Giants on Nov. 28, 2021, in the same stadium where they’ll play on Sunday.

A victory against the Jets would give Hurts a 12-game winning streak as a starting quarterback in regular-season road games. The only quarterbacks with longer streaks in the AFC-NFC era are Joe Montana and Tom Brady.

Montana won 18 consecutive regular-season road starts between a 10-9 loss to the Chicago Bears on Oct. 24, 1988, and a 17-10 loss to the Miami Dolphins on Oct. 31, 1993. The first 16 wins came with the San Francisco 49ers; the final two came with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Brady won 13 consecutive regular-season road starts with the New England Patriots between losses to the Dolphins – 20-10 on Jan. 3, 2016, and 27-20 on Dec. 11, 2017.

Noted for his adeptness at succeeding with the quarterback sneak during his NFL career, Brady talked about Philadelphia’s version of the play during the most recent episode of his podcast “Let’s Go.” Brady’s concerns for Hurts mirrored Saleh’s plans for the Jets.

“The only thing I worry about in that particular play is they all know what’s coming when you line up in formation and that quarterback is going to take a lot of shots,” Brady said. “I don’t know how many times you want your quarterback taking shots. So, yeah, it’s effective for a 1-yard gain, but it might be ineffective someday when someone hits a right shoulder of the quarterback because they know it’s coming, so you may have some short-term gain, you may have some long-term pain.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.