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Jeff Legwold joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 1/25/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  all conversations with Jeff Lagwalldo ESPN dot com. I brought you by bet Safe
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  Colorado, the exclusive club for passionate gamers and betters across the state. Hello
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  Jeff, good morning, Good morning. Uh. I have a question for
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  you. We talked about this a couple of days ago. All these teams
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  left in the NFC Championship Game have amazing offensive lines. They're one of the
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  least sacked teams in the NFL, and the Broncos obviously were not that.
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  They had fifty two sacks in seventeen games this year between Russell Wilson and Jared
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  Stidham. But every guy started virtually every week. How well quandary, you
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  know, they did have a consistent of the same guys up front. If
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  mcglinch you would have played the final game, it would have been the first
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  time I think since like twenty eleven or something like that that all five and
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  started every game in a season. So they haven't had that. They made
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  the big investment this year I mean mcglinchy got the second biggest contract in free
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  agency for any guy who switched teams, so you know, they signed Ben
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  Powers, but they're lucky again. I mean, Cushion Berry is a free
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  agent and I don't think many people expect them to be able to keep them.
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  So I think the other thing you look at with these final four,
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  and nobody wants to say it these days, but three of them are in
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  the top nine and rushing, So it shows you you've got to have that
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  component of physicality. You don't have to be like some run first offense and
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  nobody's you know, saying let's go back to the VR and all that,
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  but you do have to have that physicality right now. And these these might
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  be the or for of the most physical teams in the league of both sides
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  of the ball. And they also have really good quarterbacks, which doesn't hurt
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  well. The big question then, is that physicality born of a want to
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  of the guys up front or is that physicality a commitment from the coaches to
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  run the ball big I think it's both. I mean, you know,
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  Sean Payton kept sort of lamenting their red zone goal to goal crappiness, all
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  year and then you go look at it and their percentage of run calls in
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  the red zones like twenty fifth in the league. So he kept saying they
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  need to run the ball more. But the guy calling the plays, which
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  is him, you know, didn't call runs. So it's one of the
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  quirks of the Broncos season. You know, Sean Payton wasn't very good in
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  late game situations and and he didn't call games the way he said he should.
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  So again it's it'll always be kind of one of the mysteries of his
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  first season here. But he did not. And I looked at you know,
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  I charted tons of Saints games before he got here to look at what
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  they did. I have have gone over one of the Saints playbooks with the
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  former New Orleans player, and the Denver Broncos did not get, you know,
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  Sean Payton's offense this year. So whether that's he couldn't find a way
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  to live with Russell Wilson or not, it just didn't happen. Jeff,
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  I look at what transpired yesterday and Jim Harbaugh going to the Los Angeles Chargers.
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  I am in full freak out mode this morning. I may not look
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  like it. I know, I look, you know, looking and all
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  that stuff. Yeah, but I can I guess my brain goes to the
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  worst case scenario where he makes them a total winner and Herbert takes another step
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  and he becomes the next level kind of guy in a superstar and all this
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  kind of thing. And I think Brett feels the same way. Vic's a
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  bit more. What are we looking at here bro inside the AFC West for
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  the Broncos prospects the next decade. Well, you know, considering he was
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  the Broncos first choice last year, and I've had multiple people I was just
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  gonna say that, I've had multiple people tell me, now, you know,
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  you take it for what you want. But I've had multiple people since
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  tell me he actually took the job briefly and changed his mind. Now,
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  whether you choose to believe that or not, they did. He was the
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  only guy they interviewed twice for that long and they actually loaded up the plane
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  the second time and went to ann Arbor to convince him to come. So
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  he was the first choice. So, uh, you know, obviously the
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  Broncos thought he was a good coach, so they're gonna think he's a good
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  coach. Uh with the Chargers, Harbaugh says no to the Broncos and yes
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  to the Chargers. He probably has more control Vic, That would be my
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  guest. He probably has more control and the uh, you know, and
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  the time maybe different. It was a tough year for him this year.
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  I mean, they won the National Championship, but it was not a fun
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  year. If you're Jim Harbaugh, you know, he got his reputation,
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  took took a pounding, you know, and and the suspensions and all of
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  those things. He probably came into the interview with a different mindset than he
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  you know, he knew he had a good team at Michigan. When he's
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  interviewing with the Broncos, it's good enough to win the National Championship? So
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  justified? Are my fears justified? Are my fears justified? Oh? I've
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  said all along, even before this hire for Sean Payton. The AFC West
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  is a hell of a lot harder than the NFC South ever was. And
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  that's part of the I think that's part of the stress level. You know,
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  inside don't Valley a lot of the time. This is a tougher job
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  than he had in New Orleans, and people can argue that, but you
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  know, I think I've been here long enough to know this is a tougher
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  job, Jeff. Outside of quarterback? What separates these four teams from everybody
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  else in the NFL four teams that are left, and especially the Broncos Because
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  what's funny is we were talking about this, like if you moved Mahomes and
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  law Jackson are different stratus spheres. But if you put goff Er Party on
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  this team, they're't winning twelve games, you know what I mean, Like,
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  they're not going to be that sort of separator. So what's the biggest
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  difference between these four and what the Broncos don't have? Because we've brought up
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  offensive line skill position talent is lacking. That's obvious, Like where do you
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  even go with your draft pick in the first round this year? That's to
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  me? These are four draft built teams too. I mean, we don't
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  want to talk about that here because we all want to talk about free agency
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  and sign this guy and sign that guy, because we all they're known commodities
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  and we people always think you're getting the player in free agency who's already played
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  to that level and off when you don't. These are four draft built teams.
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  I mean, that's just a fact. Look at all the first rounders
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  on the field for these four teams. The Broncos have three on the roster.
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  On the entire roster have three first round picks, one on defense one
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  So that's a huge difference. The other difference is physicality. Look at how
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  these teams play. Yeah, they can throw the ball, and they can
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  throw the ball like crazy, but when they want to and need to,
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  they shove you around and put you in bad positions so they can throw the
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  ball and play action. Broncos Sean Payton was not a big play action guy
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  this year. These four offenses have tons of play action that defenses hate it.
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  And play action works even when you don't run the ball great. So
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  to me, those are the three things I see when I look at these
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  four teams, and that I look at the Brocras. Just to follow up
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  on that too. You know what I realized because I was kind of looking
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  at I was focusing just on the offensive side three of the four teams that
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  are left. You know what's funny. Number one option for the Baltimore Ravens
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  in the past game seems to be a rookie in Za Flowers number one option
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  for the Chiefs right now. In the past game seems to be Rashid Rice
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  number one option for the Lions. Well maybe not number one, but a
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  couple of them, and Jamier Gibs and San Laporte huge parts to their offense.
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  They're all rookies and they played in the team that's not playing for you
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  know, super Bowls or playoff spots. Barely played there one dynamic rookie and
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  Marvin Mims, and it just never made sense. They barely played any of
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  the rookies other than Mems. I mean, and look at you. You
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  named four players draft pick, draft pick, draft pick, draft pick right,
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  and the Broncos I believe last year was their smallest draft pick in almost
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  two draft class five players and they didn't pick until sixty three on draft pick.
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  So their smallest draft class in almost two decades, I believe. And
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  they're going to follow that up with a six player draft class. You are
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  not in the salary taff Era gonna turn things around very quickly with five player
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  and six player draft class. The Rams in the playoffs, second youngest team
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  in the league, thirteen draft picks last year, I believe Packers' youngest team
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  in the league, made the playoffs twelve draft picks. You know, we
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  can again we all love free agency because we know the players were talking about.
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  But if you're going to be around right now in this league, you
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  better be good in April. Win in March doesn't get you to January.
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  Win in April? Does Jeffrey? What happened with Vic Fanjo in Miami?
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  Why is he now the Philly DC. Well, you know he's from there,
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  you know that. And you know he has a relationship with them too
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  that I mean, he worked with them last year during the playoffs. He
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  was a consultant for a couple of weeks. Uh, So I think some
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  of the some of the ground was was sort of moved around then for this
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  And and I'll say I know Vic not you know, I'm not like his
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  best buddy in the media right there, but I know Vic. And he's
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  a lot like in terms of where he stands as an assistant coach. He's
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  a lot like Alex Gibbs was, which is he can't work anywhere he wants,
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  any time he wants. And I think his patience level sometimes uh isn't
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  always going to be there like a young assistant because he knows he will spend
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  about two hours unemployed. Uh, he's just you know, he's that respected.
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  He knows that many people around the league, and there was obviously a
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  disconnect. I mean, some of the Dolphins are couple of the Dolphins put
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  some vague things on social media and all that. But he's just a really
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  good coach and I think for him, he was probably you know, this
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  looked like a pretty good opportunity for him to get closer to home. Less
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  family less thing for you, real quick, your lady. Eight head coaching
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  vacancies in the NFL this year, four have been filled. The greatest coach
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  in the history of the NFL has not gotten one of these jobs. Will
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  he get one of the last four? Like or is there a chance that
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  Belichick can get left out? Well, it's hard for me to believe that
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  there's always a chance. There's always a chance because he his list of demands
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  is probably longer than anybody else's too. I mean, what he wants,
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  he's Bill Belichick. He's not just gonna walk in and take a job,
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  or he doesn't think he's gonna be able to compete or win. And he's
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  gonna want a lot to say, like ownership almost level say in things.
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  He's had that already for a long time, so I think that's part of
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  it. His list of what is a good job looks a lot different than
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  some of these other guys, but it is hard for me to believe he
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  would finish the cycle without a gig. Is Jeff LAGWELLDESPN dot com. He
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  joined us every Thursday at eight o'clock. Always appreciate the time, Leggie,
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  Thank you, Thanks Ballas take that, Jeff. All conversations with LEGGI brought
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