How the league changed

The tush push rewrote short yardage

Holds upThe record backs this up, season after season.

This one is in the FanIQ library with the full rule, the reason it works, and every season we checked.

Held in 5 of 7 seasons, from 5,326 records measured.

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Goal-Line Truths: The Sneak Is Cheating, the Fade Is a TaxFrom the 1-yard line, the quarterback keep scores two thirds of the time and the handoff barely more than half. The league still hands it off four times as often.
How Football Quietly Rewired ItselfKickers tripled their long-range workload, the midfield punt is going extinct, quarterbacks run again, and every game hands out three fewer possessions than it did in 1999.

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