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John Keim Report

How attractive is Washington's DC job? With Nicki Jhabvala

John Keim Report

Bleav + Ampire Media

Nfl Team, Football, Nfl Draft, Nfl, Washington Dc, Sports, Commanders

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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John is joined by Nicki Jhabvala from The Athletic. They discuss the Commanders defensive coordinator search, how attractive the job is, why its taking so long to hire someone, and the ripple affect to whatever decision is made. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Empire.

0:03.0

Hello and welcome to my podcast. Do me a favor, subscribe to the John Conn report,

0:17.3

wherever you get your podcast.

0:18.4

If you're watching on YouTube, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button. You can find us there as part of Empire Media, AMBIR. You always much appreciated when you tune. And don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. In a minute, I'll be joined by Nikki Javala from The Athletic as we go over Washington's search for its next defensive coordinator. This could take another minute.

0:38.2

There are a lot of factors involved.

0:39.7

We go over all that, including how attractive is this job for a defensive coordinator

0:43.8

candidate, especially when you compare it to others, and there are a lot available.

0:47.9

So what does that mean for this search?

0:49.9

So Nikki and I talk about all that stuff.

0:52.5

But before I get there, just a couple things.

0:54.4

So for Monday's podcast, that will be the next one, or Sunday night, Monday, Sunday night

1:00.0

as people on the East Coast are all over the country, start digging out from the big storm

1:04.3

that's supposed to hit.

1:05.3

So on Sunday slash Monday morning for the video, I'll be talking to Nick Wagner from ESPN,

1:10.6

who covers the 49ers,

1:11.9

about Brandon Ayuk. What happened to, what happened with Iyuk out in San Francisco? And is he someone that Washington should look to bring in? We go over a lot of factors. And I will say this, like, you know, I know you're going to hear and we'll talk about it with Nick, but, you know, hey, it's Jane Daniels guy, he can straighten them out.

1:27.7

Well, first of all, I believe that Jane Daniels would be more impactful on IUC than vice versa,

1:33.7

for sure. But here's the other thing. Iuke has friends on San Francisco as well. So I don't,

1:38.7

if it's going south in San Francisco with all these guys there that he knows, what would, what would happen somewhere else? That's the question. I can't answer that, but I will talk to Nick about that. So just stay tuned for that one. And we'll see. I know the injury was a big deal, but a lot of things to talk about with Nick, would he make sense for Washington? And we'll talk about all of that. So stay tuned by that for Monday. Now, before I get to Nikki again, a couple more things.

2:03.9

So one, Mike McDaniel, I know he got hired by the charges to be their offensive coordinator.

2:09.2

Could Washington have waited and then gotten him?

2:12.2

Now, there's a couple things along with that.

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