professor How come only one team can do it?
Exactly. Every offensive coordinator in the league should be studying this technique.
From The Athletic:
**Good or bad, love it or hate it, the tush push is taking over as coaches around the NFL wake up and smell the efficiency of the play.
There’s essentially three variations of sneaks, true QB sneaks that don’t feature the pushing maul (often the QB will try to leap over the pile), non-traditional sneaks (with another position taking the snap, could include a pusher or two) and the rugby sneak/tush push, which is that instantly recognizable tight formation with several players surrounding the quarterback (or whoever is taking the direct snap) to shove them forward into the heart of the conflict, and both the offensive and defensive line fighting to get the lowest pad level to win the battle.
I went through and watched every sneak from the 11 teams that are perfect on sneaks this season, and there was a good variety of the three types of sneaks. Buffalo ran exclusively tush push while Denver mixed a variety of looks into its three sneaks on the season.
The Eagles still lead the league in tush pushes, with 17 this year. Only one has been stopped for no gain. Their 93.3 percent success rate is just shy of their 93.5 percent success rate last season, and that’s only because they don’t have the volume yet at this point in the year.
Philadelphia ran the tush push 43 times last season, including six times for two touchdowns in the Super Bowl. And this year, the Eagles have run it six times in one game again, at the Rams, including on third-and-3 in the final two minutes of game time. They gained a yard to set up for a fourth-and-2, where you guessed it, they ran another tush push.
The rise in sneaks overall this year makes it clear that the Eagles near-automatic success rate, which is one of the reasons the play was seriously scrutinized by the competition committee over the offseason, has inspired other NFL offenses to see if they can also exploit the same advantage. When you take Philadelphia out of the equation, the rest of the NFL averages a 77.8 percent success rate on sneaks this season.**