Steelers Daily News & Links: Crazy Stat from Chiefs-Bills Game; Should the Tush Push Be Abolished?
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🏈 Teams with 4+ touchdowns and zero turnovers are 21-2 in the playoffs since 2020. The two losses: Buffalo Bills at Kansas City Chiefs, 2024 AFC Championship and Bills at Chiefs, 2021 Divisional Round.
🏈 Banning the tush push was trending on X during the Championship Games on Sunday, especially after the Washington Commanders went offside three straight times on the goal line against the Philadelphia Eagles. The Kansas Chiefs stopped Josh Allen twice on Buffalo’s version of the tush push, however.
“I can’t stand this tush Push BS. Go back to making it a penalty to shove the player from behind. Keep the QB sneak alive but no more pushing,” NFL writer Scott Kacsmar wrote on X.
Matt Williamson of Steelers.com wrote on X, “Ban The Push…penalty for aiding ball carriers needs to be added to rule book.”
🏈 Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley is the first player in NFL history to have three 60+ yard offensive TD in a single postseason.
🏈 Former Steelers head coach Bill Cowher knows what Sean McDermott is going through, as he lost in the AFC Championship Game four times.
🏈 The Steelers could have drafted Eagles quarterback in 2020, but they picked wide receiver Chase Claypool instead. Hurts was selected at 53rd overall, while Claypool was picked at No. 49.
Hurts thought for sure he was going to Pittsburgh.
🏈 Fifteen teams have appeared in a conference championship game more recently than the Steelers.
🏈 The Chiefs are the first team to reach the Super Bowl after winning back-to-back titles. Eight teams have failed to three-peat in the Super Bowl era.
The Steelers won back-to-back Super Bowl titles in 1974-1975 and 1978-1979. On the Steelers’ attempts to three-peat, Pittsburgh lost in the AFC Championship Game to the Oakland Raiders in 1976, while in 1980 they went 9-7 and missed the playoffs.
🏈 The Eagles have as many Super Bowl appearances (3) in the last ten years as Mike Tomlin has playoff wins. The Eagles are also going to their third Super Bowl since the Steelers last won a playoff game — Jan. 15, 2017.
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🏈 Steelers All-Pro Cam Heyward Calls Patrick Mahomes a ‘Great Flopper’
🏈 Report: Steelers Could Go After Joe Flacco in Free Agency
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🏈 Steelers Will Face Three Teams with New Head Coaches in 2025
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