Optimism Abounds: with Nicki Jhabvala

John Keim Report

Bleav + Ampire Media

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

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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John is joined by Nicki Jhabvala from The Athletic. They break down Jayden Daniels return, wide receiver depth, Jacory Croskey-Merritt's breakout game, and the Monday Night Football game against the Bears. 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.
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0:27.1	Hello and welcome to my podcast.
0:27.6	Do me a favor.
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0:35.4	You can find us there as part of AmpireMedia,
0:36.2	AMPIRE.
0:38.0	Always much appreciated when you tune in. And don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. Also for you, gold members, I'll be doing
0:43.3	the private Zoom on Thursday night, 730 Eastern Time. For all the club members, I'll be doing
0:49.3	a private Zoom or private chat several hours before the Monday night game against the Bears. So look for a time there. Usually it's three hours beforehand. I don't see any reason why it won't be this time. Anyway, so join us there. If you want to become a club member, go to the Empire Media YouTube page on your laptop. See the word join. Click on that. Go from there. So in a few minutes, I'll be joined by my pal, Nikki Javala, from The Athletic. So we talked about a lot of things, Commander. So you'll see and just wait for a minute. You can see if you're watching on YouTube, I'm all kind of dressed up, had a few hits for a sports center today. Some ESPN Australia hits. Folks, I'm big in Australia. Don't ever sleep on that because I've been on there several, a half dozen times
1:28.0	this year.
1:28.9	I can't go to the Outback Steakhouse without being mob. Now, that's maybe not true, but I'm going to say it anyways because it gets a chuckle whenever I do. So there you go. But that's why I'm all dressed up. And in a minute, I guess I'll get to Nikki Javala. but before we get there, injury updates,
1:45.0	because today was Wednesday,
1:46.3	first day out there.
1:47.8	Their Wednesday, in a minute. I guess I'll get to Nikki Javala. But before we get there, injury updates,
1:45.0	because today was Wednesday, first day out there. Their Wednesday today was really not like
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