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Philadelphia Eagles right tackle Lane Johnson left Monday's game against the Green Bay Packers with an ankle injury. 

The Eagles listed him as questionable to return before halftime, but he was in significant pain with the injury and needed to ride a cart to get to Philadelphia's locker room. 

The injury too place in the first half. Packers safety Evan Williams rolled into Johnson's lower left leg while pursuing running back Saquon Barkley. He made direct contact with the side of Johnson's knee, and Johnson fell to the turf in pain. 

Johnson was able to limp off the field but needed help. And when he got to the tunnel, he rode a cart toward the Philadelphia locker room. 

The injury is potentially a significant blow for Philadelphia's offense. Johnson is a five-time All-Pro and six-tie Pro Bowler and the veteran leader on Philadelphia's vaunted offensive line. The Eagles will suffer on the field as long as he's out. 

Fred Johnson, a career backup, took Johnson's place in the first half against the Packers of a game that went into halftime in a scoreless tie. 

The tush push is a point of contention across the NFL, but nowhere more than in Green Bay for Monday's Eagles-Packers game. 

The Eagles rode the largely reviled play in part to their Super Bowl title last season as a virtually unstoppable force in short-yardage and goal-line situations, to the chagrin of much of the NFL.

The Packers — who lost to the Eagles last season's wild-card round — submitted a proposal in the offseason to ban the play. The proposal got yes votes from 22 out of 32 teams at offseason owners' meetings, but fell short of the three-fourths majority threshold required to pass it.

Eagles get away with false starts of 1st tush push of night

So the tush push lives on. And it's grown only more more detested across the league as replays show the Eagles — and other teams that now employ it — repeatedly getting away with obvious false starts. 

It took exactly one Eagles drive for the tush push to come up Monday night. And multiple Eagles linemen got away with egregious false starts as Philadelphia converted on third-and-1 for their first first down of the game on a Jalen Hurts sneak.

Replay shows multiple Eagles linemen clearly moving before the snap. But officials didn't flag the false starts, and Philadelphia was awarded a first down. 

Fortunately for the Packers, the first-down pickup did not result in Eagles points. Hurts fumbled in the red zone on the same drive, and the Packers recovered for a turnover. 

Officials missed another one

The missed call was part of a rough early trend for Monday's game officials, who were led by referee Clay Martin. Officials also missed a false start on a traditional quarterback sneak by Jordan Love on Green Bay's first drive. 

Like with the Eagles, that missed call did not result in points as the Packers ultimately punted on that possession. 

But tush push or not, officials have to do better in these short-yardage situations.