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The Eagles’ tackles are stalwart defenders of the free market because they didn’t allow the Commies to get their grubby Marxist mitts on Jalen Hurts:
Squeaky clean in Week 11 pic.twitter.com/gh6BjTuy2n
— PFF (@PFF) November 19, 2024
Mailata had just come off IR and was playing his first game in a month. Johnson is 34 and has played nine of 10 games this season.
In six Mailata games, Pro Football Focus says he’s allowed seven hurries and one sack, so eight total pressures. He’s pass blocked on 220 of his 396 snaps, which is 55.5%, and committed two penalties. Prior to this season, he had allowed 142 pressures on 2,420 pass blocking snaps, which averages out to one pressure on every 17 passing plays.
Johnson has conceded a grand total of FOUR pressures on 267 pass blocking snaps this season (one hit and three hurries), about 50% of his total snaps, and committed four penalties. For his career, he has given up 272 pressures, a combination of 32 sacks, 37 QB hits, and 207 hurries, on 5,938 pass block snaps. That’s a rate of one defender pressure per 21.8 snaps.
When you add it together, the pair have allowed 12 pressures on 487 combined pass blocking snaps in 2024. That’s one sack, 10 hurries, and one QB hit. You can adjust the data to remove screens, rollouts, and other play types where a defender likely isn’t going to get close to the quarterback, which PFF refers to as “TPS,” not the report from Office Space, but something they call “True Pass Set.” In this case, Mailata has allowed five pressures on 109 TPS opportunities and Johnson has allowed three pressures on 126 TPS opportunities. Either way you slice it, it’s elite, it just changes the ratio when you filter out some specific plays, like maybe a quick release swing pass where the ball is out of Hurts’ hands at the point where the tackles are just starting to engage.
Regardless, we already knew that the Eagles tackles were elite, but when you dig into some of the advanced statistics and add up the numbers, they’re at or near the pinnacle of offensive tackle play. Edge rushers have done very little against the Mailata/Johnson combo over the years, and Johnson himself has been one of the best right tackles in football for more than a decade now.
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