The Monday Morning Agent

This season so far: 2026, through October 25, 2026

The same questions as the five-season sheet, asked of this season alone: weeks 1-7, through the games of October 25, 2026. The groups are small and the tool says so wherever it matters.

Holds, as a steady edge

Over 2026, the defined play converted 82.7% of 127 plays, every other rush with the same yards to go 68.4% of 472, a gap of 14.2 points. Take away the Eagles and the gap is 14.4 points, so it is not one team's play. The play converts about ten points more often than everything else at that distance, season after season. Whether that is grounds for a ban is a judgment about safety and fairness, and no number on this sheet settles it.

0of 18,561 play descriptions name the play
14.2points: the gap, all downs
14.4points: the gap without the Eagles

The verdict follows a rule written in season-sheet.mjs, so you can disagree with it. It reads the all-downs gap: under 100 plays matching the definition is too few to rule; a gap of 8 points or more that stays at 5 or more without the Eagles holds, as a steady edge; a gap under 4 does not hold as stated; between the two is mixed. Whether the play should be legal is not on this sheet. This is the page's rule, not the agent's. Every number is the tool's.

This season is not like the last five. Jalen Hurts, the Eagles' quarterback, is expected to miss the rest of the 2026 season after week 5 (blood clots, reported October 19, 2026); Tanner McKee started from week 6. The Eagles' plays on this sheet are from the games before that, so this season is no test of the Eagles' version of the play, and every Eagles row here will stay small. The five complete seasons are the evidence.

Measured with

"The quarterback takes the snap under center with one yard or less to go and runs straight ahead, with teammates pushing him from behind. In these plays it is any run by the team's primary passer, not from shotgun, with one yard or less to go, on any down."

dictionary/tush-push.json, written 2026-10-26 by the analyst, episode 2. Rules: the runner is the team's primary passer that game (the player with its most pass attempts); not from shotgun; any down; 1 or fewer yards to go. Compared with every other rush with the same yards to go. Cannot see: who pushed the runner or whether anyone pushed at all, so it counts every under-center quarterback sneak, pushed or not, and it cannot tell a sneak from a designed quarterback run off tackle.

The name search first: node ./query-plays.mjs --search "tush push" --seasons 2026 found the words in 0 of 18,561 descriptions. The play has no name in the data; the definition above is how the tool finds it.

All downs

Every rush with one yard or less to go, the defined play against the rest.

node ./query-plays.mjs --play tush-push --seasons 2026

82.7% the defined play, 127 plays; 68.4% every other rush at that distance, 472 plays; a gap of 14.2 points.

Third and fourth down

When the drive is on the line.

node ./query-plays.mjs --play tush-push --seasons 2026 --downs 3,4

86.8% the defined play, 106 plays; 66.9% every other rush at that distance, 248 plays; a gap of 19.9 points.

Fourth down only

The decision the room argues about most.

node ./query-plays.mjs --play tush-push --seasons 2026 --downs 4

58.3% the defined play, 12 plays; 66.7% every other rush at that distance, 84 plays; a gap of -8.3 points.

Small sample: 12 plays match the definition. One play moves its rate by 8.3 points.

One yard to go

The shortest distance, where the play is most used.

node ./query-plays.mjs --play tush-push --seasons 2026 --yards-to-go 1

82.7% the defined play, 127 plays; 68.4% every other rush at that distance, 472 plays; a gap of 14.2 points.

Goal to go

At the goal line, where a conversion is a touchdown.

node ./query-plays.mjs --play tush-push --seasons 2026 --goal-to-go

64.3% the defined play, 28 plays; 47.5% every other rush at that distance, 101 plays; a gap of 16.8 points.

Small sample: 28 plays match the definition. One play moves its rate by 3.6 points.

Every team but the Eagles

Take away the team the play is named for.

node ./query-plays.mjs --play tush-push --seasons 2026 --not-team PHI

83.1% the defined play, 124 plays; 68.7% every other rush at that distance, 463 plays; a gap of 14.4 points.

The Eagles only

The team that made it an argument.

node ./query-plays.mjs --play tush-push --seasons 2026 --team PHI

66.7% the defined play, 3 plays; 55.6% every other rush at that distance, 9 plays; a gap of 11.1 points.

Small sample: 3 plays match the definition. One play moves its rate by 33.3 points.

Regular season only

Leave the playoffs out.

node ./query-plays.mjs --play tush-push --seasons 2026 --type REG

82.7% the defined play, 127 plays; 68.4% every other rush at that distance, 472 plays; a gap of 14.2 points.

Playoffs only

Thirteen games a season.

node ./query-plays.mjs --play tush-push --seasons 2026 --type POST
The filters left no play on one side of the comparison, so the tool gives no result. That is an answer too.

No result: no play in the plays kept matches the definition.

No result: no other rush in the same situation to compare with.

By season

node ./query-plays.mjs --play tush-push --seasons 2026 --by season
SeasonDefined playsRateOther rushesRateGap
202612782.7%47268.4%14.2

By team

node ./query-plays.mjs --play tush-push --seasons 2026 --by team
TeamDefined playsRateOther rushesRateGap
ARI1580.0%540.0%40.0
BUF12100.0%771.4%28.6
IND1090.0%1776.5%13.5
SF1090.0%2661.5%28.5

Teams with 10 or more plays matching the definition, most first.

Not on this sheet: why, and whether. Every gap here is how often each kind of play converted in the plays kept. It does not say why the play converts, who pushed, or whether anyone was hurt, and it does not say what the rule should be.