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The Sports Junkies

Hour 3: New year, new look for the Washington Commanders

The Sports Junkies

Audacy

Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The guys kick off the hour by talking Terry McLaurin and David Blough's desire to raise his target share. As well as how it might affect the rest of the offense. Then, we continue on by breaking down the 2026 Commanders' need to play complimentary football. Finally, we close out with a look at the MASSIVE overhaul that has taken place on the Defensive side of the football this offseason.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How important a wide receiver is going to be to the success of your offense?

0:04.0

Incredibly, man. Like these guys, whether they're sparking a long run in the running game with blocking on the perimeter or creating explosive passes, like, this thing's going to be built around how do we get Terry 10 targets a game and get him, you know, explosive receptions after explosive receptions to kind of

0:23.8

flip the field. And, you know, Jalen Lane and Luke and Jacori and Jacoby and Nick, the guys

0:29.6

that we have under contract right now, like how can we develop them and grow them into roles

0:33.7

that are just, you know, key contributors when their numbers called on Sunday.

0:40.3

As Commander's offensive coordinator, David Blow, talking about getting Terry the football 10 times a game,

0:46.8

or at least targeting him 10 times a game.

0:49.6

What does it look like if that happens this year?

0:52.1

800636-1067, Toby Altizer, Ben Strober in with you. So I want to throw some numbers out here for your strobes because let's just go ahead and try to calculate this out. Let's try to figure this out because we were talking in the break about is this something that's realistic? I know. We had to do math. To try to figure this out.

1:10.9

So let's have a little fun here.

1:12.0

This might be a little nerdy on air, but let's have a little fun here.

1:15.2

All right?

1:16.2

The average NFL offense, let's say run 60 to 65 plays, somewhere around that NFL game.

1:24.7

So let's just go with the round number of 60, all right?

1:28.0

Okay.

1:28.4

So if we do 60 plays total on the offensive side of the football,

1:32.3

we assume they're going to run a similar scheme to Ben Johnson, right?

1:38.4

Right.

1:39.5

The Chicago Bears last season passed the ball on 54% of their snaps, which was 24th in the

1:46.9

league, 54.2%.

1:48.4

So how many per game was that?

1:50.2

So that would be if we're doing 60, if we're working off that, 32.5.

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