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This Tush Push Tracker is a Handy Resource for Every Eagles Fan
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Shout out to Eagles fan Andrew, who put together a site called tushpush.fyi, which contains every bit of data you will ever need about the Birds’ signature short-yardage play:
Similar to Crossing Broad, it is a simple website with a lot of green. It tracks each tush push effort and parses the data so that we have neatly-packaged statistics to use in our water cooler discussions and low-level blogging efforts. This is data we hope to weaponize against the likes of Joe Schad, Sean McDermott, and other nefarious push haters.
Notable in context is that the tush push is defined here as going directly up the middle, so it’s not going to count trickeration coming off the formation, like the touchdown sweep to Saquon Barkley in Tampa. There’s a really handy graph that shows the successes and failures over time, starting in September of 2022. You scroll down a bit further and find the information in pie chart form, before a full list of every single tush push attempt, complete with down, distance, ball location, game, and score.
It’s a really nice tool, so make sure you go to tushpush.fyi and bookmark the site.
Coincidentally, I was thinking it could be a good idea to do a similar tush push resource, but instead compiling a list of arguments for banning the play and the easy rebuttals for each. Like a tush push “primer,” or a handbook of sorts, like the thing they give the politician ahead of debate prep. So if some bozo Giants fan tells you that it’s a “health and safety” concern, we can point them to the primer, which would explain that there has been a grand total of one injury during the play, which was Lane Johnson recently.
Then we could do a Grover Norquist-style list of coaches and media members who have whined about the play. We could add the breakdown of which teams voted to ban and which teams voted to keep. It would be pretty useful, I think, if slightly petty. But justified.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com