Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - LOCKED ON COLTS -10/27- The Indianapolis Colts Are Getting Healthy In Week 8; Interesting Trade Options Pre-Deadline

Episode Date: October 27, 2016

The #IndianapolisColts are getting several players back on the practice field as they prep for Week 8 against the Kansas City #Chiefs. Also, Matt runs through some interesting additions that he'd welcome before the #Trade deadline next week in order to bolster some areas of need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Learn more about our healthy benefits at fepblue.org slash getmore. No, I'm not for sale. You are Locked On Colts, your daily Indianapolis Colts podcast. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome back to Locked On Colts, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Matt Dainley. And today we've gotten some good news. We've got some interesting things I want to talk about.

I kind of want to, you know, we're getting so close to the trade deadline and the Colts are typically not really a team that goes after the big name guy or the big trade typically, you know um ever since the Trent Richardson and then before that they're really you know they're just not a team that does that quite a bit so kind of wanted to go through some possibilities and stuff and maybe you know some problem areas for the Colts to uh maybe just kind of fiddle around and and kind of see what uh where we think or where I think maybe the Colts if if they were to go, might be some interesting guys to take a look at to see what they could get for them. Also, run through the injury report like usual,

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Mike and his team will help you achieve your real estate goals. Give my man Mike Ernest a call at 317-285-9691. Let's get into the injury report real quick. We'll get that kind of out of the way. For Wednesday, Mike Adams, Vontae Davis, Frank Gore, Robert Mathis, the usual suspects for the most part. Those guys had non-injury related rest days off. So those guys were on there, but that's not for any injury issues or anything like that. Dwayne Allen didn't practice with it because of his ankle. Henry Anderson came back. He was limited today due to his knee issues. Phillip Dorsett was also limited. Zach Kerr limited as well with his ankle. So Colts are getting a lot of guys back. Jack Mehor, he was limited with his tricep issue. Joe Reitz, he was limited as well. Basically, everybody on here was either limited or did not

practice, which is kind of the case typically until you get to Thursday and Friday when they start going full, and they'll give the distinctions for that. And the big one, well, one of the big ones, Dante Moncrief, he's limited. So the Colts are expecting, I mean, from everything I'm hearing, is that the Colts are expecting Dante Moncrief to play this weekend against the Chiefs at home. Maybe they'll probably – I mean, just guessing here, but I'm assuming that they're going to have him limited and he'll probably be limited again tomorrow and he may go full on Friday.

If he's limited on Friday, I don't think he'll play. If he goes full on Friday, I think they'll have him as questionable up until game time. I think he'll be a game time decision because, I mean, look, you know, Chester Rogers didn't practice today either, but they still have, you know, Devin Street and some other guys there. But I don't think that uh Rodgers will be out too much he might since he's got a foot issue along with that hamstring you never know so it it would be really nice to see Moncrief back in in his jersey and playing but I don't want him to come back too early you know it's one of those things where shoulder issue isn't something that you're typically going to

deal with on a play-to-play basis. However, wide receivers get tackled a lot. As seen with Tony Romo and some of those other guys, a lot of the shoulder injuries are re-aggravated quite easily when they are tackled. So you just want that to be about as healed as it can be. If it's just as susceptible, regardless whether he's 100% or 80%, then bring him back. If it's just as high a risk, whether he's completely healthy as to not quite full go, then it really doesn't matter. It's kind of having the injury that basically all you're going to be dealing with is how much pain can you deal with? You know, you're not going to hurt anything anymore. But if if that shoulder is just kind of always going to be, you know, an issue like, well, if he gets tackled next year, it could re aggravate.

So, you know, one of those things, if it's something like that, then you just play the guy and you hope that all works out and that he learns to either cushion some of his tackles or fall correctly, stuff like that. And guys learn that stuff. We all saw Marvin Harrison back in the day. He and Peyton Manning, when he'd get sacked, before he'd get sacked, he'd drop a lot of times. Marvin Harrison, he'd get into open field, he'd see a couple defenders getting ready to lay a lick on him, he'd get down. Reggie Wayne did that late in his career. Maybe Moncrief may have to do that a little bit earlier to absorb fewer hits, per se. I wouldn't like for that to be the issue necessarily, but it's quite possible. Basically, with media availability today,

Chuck Pagano spoke to everybody and kind of talked about all these guys coming back. It was really weird listening to Andy Reid and all those guys in the Kansas City media talking to Pagano. All they wanted to do was talk about the playoff game three years ago. I mean, you heard the guys and I from Locked On Chiefs kind of joke about it real quick, but that's so, I mean, that's three years ago. Why is that?

I don't understand why that took up 80% of their interview with Chuck Pagano. I just thought that was a waste of time. If you're reading the transcripts or whatever, if you're listening to it, kind of either a waste of noise pollution or a waste of reading time. But I couldn't understand why they wasted all, you know, one question's fine, ask them about it and then move on to, you know, this week. But there was only a couple, um, out of the 10 or 12 questions they asked that actually had anything to do with this game that's coming up. And I thought that was a little ridiculous, but so the Colts do have an issue, not an issue, but a decision to make if Muhort comes back this week.

Joe Haag, we've talked about him. He's played really well. Denzel Good, you know, he's struggled a little bit this year, but he's a big bully kind of guy anyway. So he is helpful, especially in the running game and whatnot, but they have the, this kind of a decision. If, if Muhor comes back to left guard, then Hague's, you know, does he go to right tackle, right guard? Does right stay in there and they move good out? You know, they may try to come up with a new alignment there on the, on the offensive line. So we just don't know about that. It's kind of interesting to think about though, because Haig does a really good job and is very versatile. And I know that

I've run it in the ground and I apologize, but one of those reasons that I feel like this line is going to be so good in the upcoming years is because they have guys like Haig that can be versatile and Blythe who can play center and guard and Denzel Good who can both play guard and tackle. I think another lineman or two over the next couple years, young, strong, good linemen, will really turn this offensive line into something special. I don't think LaRaven Clark is it.

I think that guy needs too much work personally. If they can somehow turn him around, then more power to him. That is phenomenal because the guy's got all the physical tools. He's just not very good. So, I mean, he's quite a project. So it would have to be somebody that I think, you know, and it changes too because when guys get drafted in, if they're better than somebody right away, they're going to ship them out or they're going to release them or cut them or just whatever they do to get the right grouping in there and get the right amount of depth, you know, that that offensive line needs. And that, you know, is what's more important, not necessarily who's there. Again, Moncrief coming back, if he comes back, that could be a really big deal for the

Colts. Now, I would venture to say with his first week back, unless Chester Rogers is also active, that it's not really, I don't think that it'll make that much of a difference. If Rodgers is there, then they've still got a lot of depth. I'm not a big fan of Devin Street, so I don't think that he's terrible or anything. I just, I don't know. He has abilities, but I think that Chester Rodgers is better than he is. And so if Rodgers is back and healthy and Moncrief comes back and he's healthy then I think we've got a good a real good setup with our receivers receiving core um but if he comes if Moncrief comes back and Rogers is out then I think we're you know with him being his first game back

in so long I just kind of feel like we're kind of right where we were anyway so it's not that much of an upgrade in his first week as opposed to if they're both there. And it allows them to have some sort of a rotation, you know, to get both guys some action. That does a lot more than you guys might think, especially if they can, you know, on a 10-play drive, they can each get four, five, six snaps apiece at different spots on the field. And that really helps keep the secondary on their toes, you know, the opposing team. So that's a good thing. So we'll see.

But either way, it's good if Moncrief comes back. I just don't know that it will make a real impact unless the rest of the wide receiver core is filled out, so to speak, for the week. And, you know, another thing was Pagano kind of touched on him being out for as long as he was and how he was, Pagano said that he was taking mental snaps. And we understand what that means. means and Gathers was in the same boat he touched on that as well um at camp Gathers was out like almost all camp all pre-season and you know that makes it that doesn't make a difference for a guy that to sit there and watch and see everything and to pay attention and to still go through all the playbook stuff

all the installs and everything to just get the the thoughts in his head of where he needs to be and when and so on and so forth. And so that could benefit him and help him transition back just a little bit quicker than usual. But it's still, like I said, I still think it's going to take a week or two for him to come back and really have a solid impact unless that wide receiver core is all built up. The Colts still, the Colts, some of the local beat guys

still want to talk about the comeback as well. You can kind of tell by Pagano's short answers that he's, you know, there's really no point. It's so moot in the conversation. They've had three years to talk to him about it um you know not necessarily for game prep but still it's just such a dumb question um i get it i just i just think they're cheesy uh questions sometimes you know the the funniest part about it was that pagano actually replied to one of the questions about it just keep chopping wood and that's not only is that vintage Pagano but it was perfect

because it was one of those questions about this playoff game from three years ago and it was of course like they're not going to get an answer out of me I'm just going to throw a cliche down their throat and we're going to move on to the next question I thought that was I thought that was kind of funny you know just personally just just something to move on to the next question. I thought that was kind of funny, you know, just personally. Just something to move on and be like, hey, let's talk about the game here. And so they definitely did because the very next question goes to Andrew Luck and how he's been playing lately. And, of course, we all know that Luck has been playing really well this year.

A lot of his movements are more crisp and very determined with his footwork and his eye discipline and so on and so forth. And I see that it's, you know, we've spoken this, we're 40-some episodes in to this podcast, and I know I've talked about it in the past, but I see a lot more people noticing that Schottenheimer deserves some credit for, you know, shaping luck, so to speak, since he's been here and he does. And I'm doing my best to get an interview with the guy because

I really like to talk to him and hear it from his, you know, in his words, kind of like what he feels that he's done with him. So I've been working on that. We'll see what kind of luck I have with the Colts on that front, but he does deserve, Brian Schotthammer does deserve a lot of credit with that. I think, of course, you have the talent. No one's trying to act like that he built Andrew Luck up from, you know, some scrub quarterback into a superstar, but Andrew Luck to a point, and I've had this thought process in my head in the past year or two, he gets to a point where it almost makes you feel like he's uncoachable before this season. Because a great guy, knows everything about football, always says the right crap, all that comes out of his mouth in order, you know. But the point is that he has to – somebody's trying to teach him some discipline with some of his errant throws. And I'm not talking interceptions.

I'm talking about stupid throws, throws that shouldn't be made that he knows they shouldn't be made. And everybody, you know, his first couple years in the league, he's great because he never makes the same mistake twice. He made it a lot. He made that same mistake a lot of times. So I think Brian Schottenheimer's really refined his game. And I think Brian Schottenheimer deserves a ton of credit for it. His footwork was, you know, it was easily seen my very first day at camp.

You could tell from the jump that they were really working on that. And you couldn't necessarily tell exactly what they were working on until maybe this, my second or second or third day, possibly there. But then you could start to see that luck had to, not only he was learning the footwork, um, he was getting the footwork down better.

His eye discipline, he was, uh, you know, coming off through his reeds and progressing through it very clean. But one of the things also had to come with it was his touch on his throw. So, uh, not only did he have to go through all this stuff, but with his improved footwork, he had to learn kind of how, uh, his arm motion and everything's going to go, you know,

because one thing affects the other. You, you have the arm mechanics with the footwork all over again, so to speak. And he had some high throws and some bad throws. But you could definitely gradually see, and I mean I'm talking day to day, not like from one week to the next. In the first two weeks that I was there, I think I was there five or six days out of those first two weeks of training camp. And you could definitely see how he was progressing literally during a practice and getting significantly better. Not only that, but his throwing power was, you know, evident.

So and I think we all know that he has a big arm. But you could, you know, just like the sideline throws. In fact, one of the sideline throws that he made in the very first pass of the second half in that last playoff game was one of the things that drove me so nuts about him. Is left hash, throw into the right boundary. And, you know, it's just floated out there because the receiver's not out of his break yet. He's either A, should not throw that pass, has to throw it with more speed, or something, but you can't make that pass.

And a lot of times, the Ravens game I went to two years ago, he threw one, and it missed the Ravens corner's helmet by like an inch, only because he wasn't looking. Had he turned his heady to intercept it, it would have been a pick six with no problem. So, I mean, those things are the things that Schottenheimer deserves a lot of the credit for. So I'll move on, but I wanted to explain why I think that Schottenheimer is such a huge get for Andrew Luck and this Colts offense, just in general. He's got that relationship with Andrew more so. In practice, you see him and Chud, they'll have the relationship throughout the practices.

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now the colts did work out some guys uh on tuesday that uh kind of just now getting wind of and uh two of them are linebackers two of of them are corners. So, I mean, that doesn't surprise you necessarily. They're definitely looking for some more depth. They need a couple different areas, and none of these guys, I mean, the only one that I recognize was John Latulale, and that's just for the last name because of the guy for the Carolina Panthers. Whether that's relation or not, I'm not exactly sure, but the other guys were Kyrie Fort, Greg Ducre, Shaquille Randolph.

So I know that Fort was a fourth-round pick for the Saints. Latulale was originally signed on the Seahawks as an undrafted free agent out of UNLVV actually, and made the roster, but only ended up lasting just a few months. So that dude's obviously got some talent if Seattle, you know, wanted him or had him on their roster. But at the same time, he didn't last very long. So something's up with him, work ethic, coachability or something, you know, so you never know. But let's talk about possibilities. What do the Colts need?

Let's say the Colts are going to make a trade before the deadline, okay? I believe it's next Tuesday. So the Colts are making a trade. A, what are they trading and who are they trading for? What position? What are they trading and who are they trading for? What position, what are they trading to get? And let's say for the sake of argument, they're not giving up any players. Okay. They're going to give up a draft pick or, or two draft picks and maybe a, you know, one for later or something like that. I'm not going to break this down as in, uh, try to give

you perfect value for what kind of picks these guys would be worth or anything like that. But I'll simply keep it kind of broad and say a mid-round pick. And that could be anywhere from two to four, maybe even a fifth rounder or something like that. And that could be a combination of picks between the next two years or something like that. Like I said, not going to get super in-depth with that part of it. However, I do want to tell you that I have no problem trading for guys for picks, especially maybe, you know, second round pick, you really want to return, no doubt about it. But anything third, fourth, fifth round pick, I mean, if you get a guy who can contribute, be solid and be good,

that's already a leg up on 90 of your draft picks and i mean on the other hand let's be real what everybody you know the the common uh reaction i guess you get when you see the colts lose the game lose two games in a row maybe even lose three games in a row or something like that is oh oh, let's go for the draft picks. Guys, have you not paid attention to the last several drafts? What is guaranteed in this draft with our front office? Nothing. And we don't even have to go that far. In general, what's guaranteed with any front office? Nothing. So you don't give up a first round pick. Got to nail those. Colts haven't nailed those in the past, but they got to nail them. The Colts have a very definite vision for what they're

going to have to draft in the next year or two. So believe that. They know they need edge. They know they need secondary. They know they need linebackers. They know they need more linemen and they know they need running backs. So they're going to be focusing on those a lot, okay? But outside of that, if you can get a really solid contributor, and I'm not talking about an all-pro guy necessarily, but if you can get a contributor for a second, third, or fourth round pick, I'd do that in my sleep without any second thoughts. So let's go through a couple guys, and there's just a few of them, but these guys were guys that I found pretty interesting. And, and, you know, I'm not saying that they'd all necessarily be made available via trade from their team, because some of these guys

hold, uh, you know, important roles on their team, but, um, a couple of these teams are, you know, I won't say they're out of it, but it's quite possible that they're out of it. You know, they're kind of looking pretty shady. So a couple other ones, they have just a lot of talent on their team and might want to get rid of it just because, you know, rebuild or not necessarily rebuild, but they've got other guys that can step in and they're not going to really skip a beat. Plus they could use the draft pick and something like that. And I'll kind of start with that first of all. And I got two guys that are kind of in that category there. Marcus Cooper of the Cardinals, not a guy that I would expect to be available or anything like that.

But if the Colts could somehow swing that for two draft picks, maybe even just whatever, that would be a huge get in the secondary for the Colts. Now, you say Darius Butler had a good game last week. Patrick Robinson had a good game last week. They did. But guys, they'll gladly get rid of some other guys on the roster to beef up that secondary.

Don't mistake it for a second. And if they do, maybe they'll involve one of those guys in the trade. Who cares, to be quite honest with you? Having a guy in there that can go opposite or sit in the slot and to be able to lock down some teams finally and give that front seven maybe even a little bit of a boost with the extended coverage that they can offer. That's a good thing. Now, the other guys for the Giants, Keenan Robinson, he's kind of a hybrid linebacker. They play him

sometimes in an outside role, but he is an inside linebacker as well. And he's a good inside linebacker, not getting a ton of snaps in New York, I think around 65% of the snaps. But he's good in coverage. He's a good run defender. And he's something that I think the Colts could get for a reasonable draft pick. I don't think that it would cost a second. He's 27 years old, maybe a third, fourth, maybe two-thirds or two-fourths or something like that possibly.

And they, like I said, he's playing around 65% of the snaps. They've got a couple guys there that they want to get more time to, and maybe that would be a possibility. I don't think the Colts are going to do anything, by the way, before the tread deadline. I just don't. But I'd like to see one of those two guys get in there because we definitely need another corner and we definitely need a linebacker and we might even need two linebackers.

So if we can get Keenan Robinson and Keenan Robinson II, since everybody's a senior now in the NFL with their jerseys and seconds and thirds, we'll take two of them. Another guy, now this is kind of where we get into teams that have some quality players but don't have much to surround them. Now, when we look, and I'll go to this guy first, Joe Hayden from the Browns. Now, he would be a really difficult trade, not because I don't think the Browns would trade him, not because I don't think the Colts could get reasonable draft capital for, you know, or give draft capital to him. It'd be because Joe Hayden's contract's ridiculous. And I don't know if the Colts could cover that. That would take a lot of work from the Colts financial crew, but he's also been injured lately, which would kind of, I think, maybe decrease his price as far as the trade part of it.

But Joe Hayden is a quality, quality corner. I wouldn't even, honestly, I wouldn't even care if they did it. And if they could find a way to somehow push his salary somehow to the Browns, a large portion of it. And, you know, just to have him healthy for next year. I mean, can you imagine that? Bringing him in, getting him for like the back half of this season, like, hey, look, you're going to take three weeks, four weeks, five weeks, and you're going to get healthy. And then you're going to be here for our playoff run. And then you're going to be here next year. I think that could be a huge boost for the Colts. Although, like I said, that would be really

hard for the Colts to swing financially, though., Jonathan Banks from the Bucs, another guy that he's being made available by the Bucs, but they're from what I hear from them or from their area is that they're wanting to swing it for a wide receiver. So don't think that would be an issue with the Colts that, uh, they would want to take up. I don't think they're going to give up any of their wide receivers for that. So, but Jonathan Banks would be a heck of an addition, uh, to this team. He would certainly be fantastic depth and possibly, uh, take over one of the slot roles immediately, uh, would be able to go outside as well. Um, with, uh well with any issues with Robinson. I mean, just some of these guys would be a big help in the secondary.

Now, with that said, linebackers is the biggest issue on the Colts' defense, without a doubt. How about Christian Kirksey for the Browns? Another solid talent. He's getting a ton of playing time, though, so this makes it even more unlikely. Now, I'm not trying to give you trades that I think we could swing. I'm trying to give you... It's interesting to me. Think about some of these guys on the team, and I think that's the main part of it. I didn't want to give you guys like

C.J. Mosley from the Ravens or something like that, something that would never, ever, ever happen. But maybe one of those guys that kind of like, well, you know, if you blink a couple times, maybe there'd be a way to swing. Now, Kirksey is more than affordable, but Kirksey's just a high priority guy in their defense. And if they're going to rebuild, they're going to want to rebuild around some guys like that. But it sure would be cool to see him get an opportunity here because he would definitely immediately be opposite DeQuell Jackson in the middle there. It would be a huge upgrade off of anything that we've got, especially in coverage. So now let's get to the last guy here.

There's one, two, three, four, five guys. Here's my sixth guy. Now, this isn't a linebacker or a corner, but another guy that I think is going to be made available and would be a huge pickup. Would be a huge pickup for the Colts, I think. I think he's also affordable enough. Colts would have to probably give up a second rounder for him

and maybe a second pick the 2018 draft, maybe a fifth or later, maybe a fifth, maybe even another fourth, maybe a second and a fourth total. Niners. Can you imagine he and Frank Gore and then, you know, just boot Todman or somebody else on there? You've got two very downhill runners. You've got Carlos Hyde, almost a younger version of Gore in some aspects with better lateral agility. Just that would be huge. I mean, that would give a legit one-two punch in the backfield, whereas right now they've kind of got just guys, you know, that can give him a breather with Turbin and Todman. You get Carlos Hyatt in that backfield, and teams have to take notice of that.

I mean, Gore's doing a good job of keeping Andrew safe with the threat of a running game. They don't have a huge running game, but they know that he can break it. He's broken some good-sized runs for him, or for the Colts anyways, this year. But you get a guy like Carlos Hyde that can really open it up and really take it to the house, that puts a lot less pressure, takes a lot of pressure off of Luck and this offense, especially in play action and pass protection. So I like the thought of all these guys, to be honest with you. I think Hayden's

impossible because of his financial part of it. I don't think that the Cardinals would part from Marcus Cooper. I don't know about Keenan Robinson, though. Maybe not, and I don't think that the Browns would necessarily want to get rid of Christian Kirksey. Colts have thrown a first-round pick to the Browns in the past, so what do I know? But I just thought that might interest some of you guys. And if you guys have any guys, uh, you know, we've got almost a, uh, what, five days or whatever until the trade deadlines up, you guys have some legit thought process or thoughts. If you guys

have some legit thoughts on, uh, some guys that maybe the Colts could go after in a legit fashion that they could legit bring in and maybe swing something in return for an improvement at linebacker or just defense in general or maybe in the backfield. Let me know. Hit me up at LockedOnColts on Twitter, LockedOnColtsPod at gmail.com or on Facebook. I'd be interested to hear what you guys have to say about that and who you think might be a solid addition and a solid realistic addition at that. Make sure you guys are subscribing to LockedOnColts, the LockedOn network. There's a lot of great podcasts on the entire network. It's really growing fast.

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and it's enjoyable to be a part of. So like I said, again, I'm going to tell you guys all week, and I'll tell you guys again on Friday's show, but I will be at the game this Sunday. I hope that some of you guys are there. My boy and I will actually probably be in, you know, tailgating for a little bit before the game. We'll go inside. We'll be in the Bud Light area right around the, right behind the 100 seats. So if you guys happen to be there and you see us, come shout, you know, come hang out with us for a little bit and we'll, we'll shoot it up before

and we'll shoot the breeze before the game for a little while until we all head down to our seats. Should be an exciting game. I think, I think the Colts are maybe turning a corner, maybe not. It's so early to say that one week, one, one win, you know, could be fluky because of the injuries that we were having. Could be in just a terrible game by a terrible team, the Titans, you know, could be fluky because of the injuries that we were having. Could be in just a terrible game by a terrible team. The Titans, you know, um, I feel like I kind of gave them too much credit, but they have a legit front, uh, front seven and they've got a legit offensive line. So the Colts just outdid themselves and be on the lookout also for, I have a piece coming up on today's pigskin probably today and should be featuring some guys that I think need to, or that are going to probably be

relied upon to step up outside of the normal major playmakers on the Colts team if they want to have a legit shot at the playoffs this year. So it should be kind of interesting for you. But as always, I always appreciate you guys listening. I appreciate your feedback. And thank you so much for listening and sharing the show. I'm getting a lot more emails, a lot more correspondence from you guys than I ever expected to. And I love it. Like I said, I appreciate it. It's really, really cool to see. So you guys keep it up and that's going to wrap it up for today's show. And I will see you guys for our Friday show tomorrow to kind of wrap up the week and then we'll have the game. And then hopefully I can come back here on Monday and talk about the Colts winning two in a row. No Pagano. I don't want to talk about Pagano, to be honest with you. I just want to see the Colts play well so we don't have to sit here and

talk about why Pagano's bad or why this or that isn't working or why there's just no preparedness and this and that. You know, that gets old. I don't want to talk about it. I know we're going to have to if it looks bad, but we'll talk about what we have to talk about. But I'd rather just talk about the Colts playing really good football and beating a legit contender in their conference. So I will talk to all of you on Friday right here on Locked on Colts. You are Locked on Colts, your daily podcast on the Indianapolis Colts, part of the Locked On Podcast Network.

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