Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Instant Reaction: Kansas Jayhawks Football's Disappointing Season Continues with 38-27 Loss to TCU

Episode Date: September 29, 2024

Instant reaction and analysis postcast to Kansas Jayhawks football losing 38-27 at home in Arrowhead in Kansas City to TCU Horned Frogs as the disappointing 2024 season continues with another winnable game that KU couldn't come out on top of in similar ways. The struggles of Jalon Daniels, Jeff Grimes, the defense late, and more and what to do next for Lance Leipold. Plus, GOATs of the game like the good with Devin Neal, Daniel Hishaw, Luke Grimm, JB Brown, the fans in attendance and more.For your next listen, check out the Locked On College Football podcast! From NIL deals to never ending conference realignment rumors, Spencer McLaughlin gets you ready for an exciting season on the gridiron! Click HERE to listen now. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Your Team. Every Day.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!ROYDownload Roy for iOS or Android and enter referral code LOCKED ON and you’ll automatically be entered into a sweepstakes to win $5,000 cash. Visit JoinRoy.com for additional details. No purchase necessary, void where prohibited. Get off the sidelines and into the NIL game with Roy. GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelYou can start the season with a big return on FanDuel. Place your first FIVE DOLLAR bet and you’ll get started with TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS - guaranteed ! Visit FANDUEL.COM to get started. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

On today's Locked On Jayhawks, disappointment once again. You are Locked On Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. I'm Derek Johnson. You can find me on Twitter at DJohnsonRadio, and we are going through it right now. This was another tough one for KU, and we're going to try to talk through it a little bit on this episode of Locked on Jayhawks.

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with certainly more talent and ability than the 1-4 record speaks. And we're going to get into that. We're going to get into our GOATs of the game, what went wrong for KU, and what is next for the Jayhawks on this episode of the show, which is brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Maybe you need to get off the mat. Maybe you need to go bet on the Alabama-Georgia game and have some fun elsewhere.

Place your first $5 bet, and you'll get started with $200 in bonus bets. Guaranteed. Visit FanDuel.com to get started today. So Kansas falls 38-27. Actually, their biggest loss of the season, and it comes in a home game with their backs against the wall at the TCU obviously the score probably a little bit closer than that in terms of how the game was played for a majority of it which was just kind of back and forth as opposed to TCU you know not all 11 point games are created the same I think KU lost at Oklahoma

a few years ago by like 10 and that one was never really a game for KU so anyway unmitigated disaster is kind of the term that I used at the beginning of this and that is was never really a game for KU. So anyway, unmitigated disaster is kind of the term that I used at the beginning of this. And that is not just the case for this game, but really for the start of this season for KU. I mean, if you would have said coming into this game that Kansas was going to wind up being what, plus, well, plus two in turnovers because of the interception

at the end of the game, but for the majority of the game, plus three and nearly a plus four, that would you have liked KU's chances? I certainly would have in kind of a coin flip game. And again, kind of a rinse and repeat of a lot of things for KU. You have the bad end of the first half. Gans up 17 to 14, can't hold on at the end of the first half, you give up a touchdown. That has been something that has been the case in all of these FPF games. An inability to adjust on defense in the fourth quarter, right? Or maybe it's just not making clutch plays in the fourth quarter.

However you want to term that, that once again became the thing. You have that long touchdown to TCU, just unable to, you know, I guess come up with that stop at the end, you go up the field goal that makes it the two-score game, right? Like just unable to make those key stops in the game. Now this was probably the best offense he played, but still at least the best passing offense. Jalen Daniels having some inconsistencies. I thought the first drive looked good.

I thought even the second drive was okay. I don't even know if he had any completions on the second drive, but he had like a run. I think that might have been called back with penalty. He had a couple balls that maybe weren't his fault but still overall you have a 44 completion rate from Jalen Daniels with as many interceptions as he have touchdowns like certainly wasn't vintage Jalen Daniels you had poor play calling at times well it was nice to see that there weren't all these like receiver screens that was a positive um but I think some of the first down play calling which we'll get into a little bit later here, remains to be desired. I don't know if certain

things on key downs were more about the quarterback or more about the OC, whatever it is, it is just not clicking right now. I think even the play calling extends out to maybe the defense side of the ball. We talked about this coming in the preview. You could not just allow TCU to have open rain on these short passes. What do they do? DBs are playing 5-10 yards off and they're giving up all these short passes or passes right at the sticks and then TCU is making guys miss after the catch um this was kind of rinse and repeat feels like there's uh a play every game where and this one may be more deservedly so than some other games where Lance Leipold is just screaming upset at the ref there was the interview between the I think third and the fourth quarter where he was really unhappy.

And I get it. And I think sometimes, and it was a big part of the game. It certainly was. But, like, you can focus too much of that if you're the head coach. I brought this up from the other end. Let's talk about this from the other end. There was a game in Allen Fieldhouse, I think this was two years ago, one year ago.

It was going with Keontae George when he was still on Baylor. Baylor was up, like, 15 or something like that at halftime on KU KU comes back wins the game it was Jalen Wilson's last year with KU and I remember at halftime of that game like they made note that Scott Drew was like complaining about the officiating when he was up 15 you're focusing on the wrong things and so I understand you have to get after the refs you have to play the refs that's part of being the head coach but there becomes a certain level like if you're the fan you want to hang on to it whatever if you're the fan, you want to hang on to it, whatever. If you're the head coach, you got to focus, you got to get the sideline refocused. And they talked about the body language, you know,

during the broadcast in that the KU body language was not good. The TCU body language is good. That was according to the sideline reporter. I don't know for sure, but you know, still that, that is something that I think has been kind of a carryover, poor timeout management, game management, whatever you want to call it. Improper usage, or maybe just not enough usage of Devin Neal. Like there were certain drives where he just wasn't out there at all. And he is your best, at least offensively. I don't know. I think he's probably your best overall player.

You know, I don't know. Just improper usage there felt like. The one thing that did change in this game that wasn't rinse and repeat from the last games was that turnover margin that we talked about. Like that's been something that's been killing KU, but they didn't take advantage this time, right? Like you get a field goal on the one turnover, you get stopped on the other turnover. And so it almost feels like you wish you could have applied this turnover margin for one of the previous three games, because maybe that would have allowed you to win those games. In this game,

it just didn't really matter either way. The end result, another loss. And maybe you could argue, I don't know, probably less arguing with this one as the other ones. Like TCU out-yarded you by like 150, 200 yards in this game. If not for those turnovers, TCU wins this game probably running away. So from that standpoint, this isn't one that I view in the same ilk as like the Illinois or the West Virginia or the UNLV games where it's like you should have won that game you were the better team you could make an argument TCU was the better team today and TCU did deserve to win that football game now you could argue that if this play goes uh this way or if KU makes this play or you know

if this thing happens maybe it's a different story late in that game and that's fine and totally understandable and I have no really you know super sound argument that kind of goes against that but point being another loss that you easily could not have taken i think that can't be argued that like all of your losses now are games that easily could have gone the other way what's crazy you lowered your point per game average against one of the worst run defenses in the big 12 and in the country. You would have thought this would have been a good matchup for KU. Not so fast, my friends. This was a must-win game. We talked about it coming in. This was a must-win game for KU. So what does that mean if you lose? Well, you're 1-4. If we're just talking about like pure hypotheticals, nothing's stopping you from winning out and going 8-4. So like the season's not over. You can still make a bowl game.

Of course you could. But let's be real here. You're one in four for a reason. Are you going to go five and two over this back half of the schedule? The features at Arizona state, which looks like good team. The features at Kansas state, the features, a good Iowa state team. Colorado actually looks pretty decent. Now Baylor hung out, hung with, with BYU. That's going to be really like you look down the schedule for KU,

you can argue that they'll probably still win a couple games because I think they're a good enough team to at least win a couple games. Like, I don't think this is as bad as one of those David Beatty teams that was going 1-11. I don't even think they're, you know, they're not as bad as the 2021 Kansas team with Lance Leipold that went 2-10. I mean, that team had no one-score games outside of, like, the South Dakota game until the last, like, three or four games of the season.

So it's still better than that. I think they'll still run into a couple more wins, but that could be all we're talking about here. And if you're talking about a team that an eight and a half over under win total coming in the year, it was preseason rank coming into the year. And now we're adjusting the expectations saying, can they win three games? Can they win four games? That is a huge disappointment. And so the part where you

lose a must-win game to me this was must win for you getting back to being like a bowl possible team you get to two and three you're sitting there going okay we can squeak out four and three the rest of the way get back to another bowl game now like I said five and two the rest of the way with the way you've looked and now maybe things start to get a little bit worse in terms of your mentality going into these games. Like that's kind of tough to get to. And so the importance now, like you still want to send the seniors out in a positive way in some way to finish season. You want to have positive momentum swing going into the offseason. So it's not just an I mean, you want to avoid the disaster being like one and eleven, two and ten. That would be a huge disaster.

At least 3-9, 4-8 is like a disaster in one way, but it's not a totally broken disaster that will go into next year being like, well, you had all these one-score losses. Maybe you can be a bowl team next year. And really a big part of this, though, the rest of the way, is just trying to figure what things are going to be for 2025. And so I asked this on Twitter. I asked, on Twitter.

I asked, is this the most frustrating KU football season for fans since 2009? Because you go back and you think about even some of those years in 2015, right? Like so much more, I don't know, I guess less talent. So much, even though there have been all these questions about play calling and this and that, like the coaching was so much worse in the mid 2010s for KU than it is now at the very least, the very least from like a program building level. But like, even though those teams were worse,

at least your expectations coming into that year were okay. Maybe they can win three games. Maybe they can win four games. So it was almost expected. This was not expected at all. This was not expected at all. And so this becomes almost as frustrating. I said frustrating I said since 09 because you started so hot you you had a lot of guys back from you know team that uh wins back-to-back bowl games won the orange bowl a couple years ago and

then you just kind of fall off um but even then you know I've had people reach out and be like no this is worse for this reason or that reason which like I don't know maybe this is the most frustrating season of KU football history. I don't know. I don't go back far enough to where I can say about, you know, a certain season in the 70s, 80s, or 90s or something like that. But it certainly is up there and certainly in recent memory, and that is not a good place to be in for KU football.

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You can do all that with FanDuel, the official sportswear partner of the Locked On Podcast Network. On to our goats of the game. Let's start with the good. There was some good in this game, at the very least. The running backs, again. Daniel Hyshoyshaw 13 carries 85 yards and a touchdown he was really good for KU able to hit some big power runs through the middle Devin Neal 14 carries 70 yards and a touchdown that's five yards carry total it up between the two guys 27 carries 155 yards two

touchdowns that is great production from your top two backs. That's 5.7 yards per run between Hyshaw and Neal. That's a very good place to be at. Meanwhile, the rest of KU plays, right? The rest of the plays that KU ran. So other players running the football, passing the football, went for an average of 4.6 yards per play. So what is more, the 5.7 or the 4.6? And you might say, oh, that's not that big of a difference. But that's also not counting for the plays that were 4.6 yards per play. So what is more, the 5.7 or the 4.6? And you might say, oh, that's not that big of a difference, but that's also not counting for the plays that were 4.6, the plays that

resulted in turnovers, which I think was just one, the plays that resulted in penalties, which realistically would drop that average down to probably below four. So maybe should have even given them the ball even more than 27 touches. Maybe it should have been like 35 to 40 between the two of them. Fans get a good go at here. I was very curious what the attendance was going to be coming into this game. I was worried that after the last couple of weeks, it was going to be 25,000, somewhere in that range. Fans showed out. The attendance they showed was 46,000. Now, do we know for sure if some of those were people who had tickets and didn't show up? How does that get registered? I don't really know. Or is that taken at the gate i i'm gonna assume it is taken at the gate because

some of the i'll say this some of the pictures that you might have seen like on twitter before the game i don't think did it justice some of those didn't look great but also it's because the stadium's so big watching on tv or like when they showed sideline shots it looked pretty full at least in the lower bowl the upper bowl didn't look like there was anybody like in the end zones or the corner of the end zones really uh in the upper bowl but like again the lower bowl. The upper bowl didn't look like there was anybody like in the end zones or the corner of the end zones really in the upper bowl. But like, again, the lower bowl is pretty filled, 46,000. That's pretty good attendance for KU, right? Like, I mean, in the new stadium, that would be more than a sellout

from what they're going to have in terms of attendance there. So good props to the KU fans. Now, is this going to carry over to the next home game? Yeah, that Arizona State, probably going to be a loss there. Bye week after that. I mean, home game? Yeah, that Arizona State, probably going to be a loss there. Bye week after that. I mean, I guess they could win at Arizona State, but you're going to be underdogs. Bye week after that, and then playing a bad Houston team,

not like a huge draw. What's the attendance going to be for that one? But props to the KU fans. I do think they showed out for this game, and unfortunate of what happened. J.B. Brown gets a good go here. Seven tackles. He had a sack. I thought he was active, engaged. He did a lot of what happened. J.B. Brown gets a good go here. Seven tackles. He had a sack.

I thought he was active, engaged. He did a lot of things for this defense. Obviously, no Cornell Wheeler with his injury, and so it was a lot of Brown and Berryhill, and I thought Brown stepped up in a real way, and they used him in some pass rush stuff, which I thought was cool, too. Kobe Bryant gets a good go here. Ten tackles for Kobe. He had half a TFL. He had a pass breakup. He had that forced fumble on the first play of the game. He had some big hits in this one, stopping guys short of the sticks or getting that fumble, stuff like that. I didn't really notice him much in coverage, which honestly for a corner is probably a good thing to be at.

It felt like to me, TCU, who did have a really big passing game, you struggled to defend the pass. Most of it was over the middle or it was targeting like Mello Dotson or one of the other corners. I thought Kobe actually had a good game for KU. Dylan Woodkey minus missed tackles, which ended up with him only having one tackle. I was honestly surprised it was only one. I thought I saw him have a couple more, but it felt like he had some good pressures out there. I think the PFF grade is going to show up well. We'll see. Maybe I'm wrong on this one. It did feel like he missed maybe two or three tackles

in this game, but I felt like there was one of them that led to a big play, I'm pretty sure, but the other ones led to him at least slowing them down, like getting a hand on him or something that allowed somebody else to make a tackle. I thought he played a good game for you on the edge. Luke Grimm gets a good goat, six catches for 85 yards and a touchdown, continues to be the most trusted receiver, making tough catches. The toe-tapping grab for a touchdown was pretty impressive. Luke Grimms had a really good season, despite KU's passing offense really sputtering so far. I guess Tabor Allen. I say I guess not because it wasn't a good game for Tabor Allen.

He hit those field goals, 41-yarder, which kept it as a one-score game in terms of you making it and giving up a touchdown and allowing it to be a one-score game. But I say I guess because I think, one, I would have preferred KU to go for that fourth down. And if you would have got it, you would have ended up getting a touchdown there. Then it's still a one-score game at the end. Now, I guess it didn't matter because you didn't score.

But also, if we're having to highlight the kicker, no offense to kickers, but it'd be one thing if we made it like a 50-yarder. If we're having to highlight the kicker for making a 41-yarder, I don't know that that speaks well about how the game went. Our bad goats here, end of halves again. We talked about this earlier in the open. The end of the first half has been a disaster for KU. So far in their four FBS games, they have given up 31 points in the final two minutes of the first half. And in all four FBS games,

they've had the ball in the final two minutes of the first half. Now, this game, they only had the ball in the final two minutes of the first half. Now this game, they only had the ball in the final two minutes of the 12th second mark, but they had the ball before the two minute mark. Maybe if they could have, you know, ran more clock off or if they just could have scored a touchdown that would have given them a little bit more coverage there instead of getting the field goal, then things would have been a little bit different. I don't know. But now if you add up the total that KU has lost these four games by, they've lost a combined four games by a combined 24 points. They are minus 31 in the final two minutes of the first half. It doesn't take rocket scientists to add that math together and think that,

hey, if we were just even in the final two minutes, maybe they'd be undefeated right now. At the very least, they'd probably be sitting at like four and one. Okay, special teams gets a bad go here. Felt like only a matter of time with the way this season was going for KU, the special teams was going to, you know, give up a big play, right? That's just the Kansas special right there. First of all, stop returning kicks. It feels like KU, there was the one good return for Wilson, technically two, the other was

called back by holding, but it's like that happens so much on return kicks. You have the holding call, you start at the 10, 11 yard line. It feels like KU has been starting at the 15 19 20 yard line when they could have it at the 25 and for an offense that has been struggling 5 10 yards like could be the difference if you add those up a couple times over the course of a game but then yeah you have the punt return and yeah probably could have been a block in the back on TCU but still like you have 10 other guys out there like if if that missed block in the back leads to a 15-yard punt return, that's one thing. If that block in the back, which happens at the very point of attack, leads to a punt return touchdown, there were other breakdowns for KU in the lanes there, right? So

that was a problem for KU there. Jalen Daniels gets a bad goat mainly after the first drive. So I didn't think Jalen was the top problem for KU, but it certainly didn't help. And they continue to be a team that it felt like was relying on Jalen being their star player. When to me, it is Devin Neal and Daniel Hyshaw. But overall, the stats, 15 of 34, so 44%. That's not great. 179 yards, still can't get to 200. That's not great. One touchdown, one interception. If we take out the first drive, he was two for three for 24 and a score on the first drive. That means after the first drive, he finished 13 of 31 for 155 yards and an interception, just not good enough. And I don't know how much to put blame on the receivers. You had a couple of drops in this one,

how much to put blame on the office coordinator, how much to put on him. I don't know, but regardless of what you think, even if it wasn't a good game for the passing attacker, Jalen, I will add, let's put this in bad goats here, receivers not named Luke Grimm. So Luke Grimm had a good game. I'm sure it's been frustrating for guys like LJ Arnold and Quentin Skinner. You finish last season in the bowl game where you're throwing it around the yard with Jason Bean. You're getting huge tot totals you're coming into this year thinking we're going to have huge seasons and then Jalen Daniels dips off the passing game dips off you're not getting as many opportunities Luke Grimm's getting a lot of the opportunity it's probably frustrating for both those guys I

would surely imagine that is the case but you know what's one thing you can't allow to happen if you're frustrated letting that creep into play LJ arno has the one drop on the i honestly don't remember what the down and distance was but it was a little sideline throw like a little hitch just drops it right at the sticks there was the one uh reviewed call that should have been a catch that ends up being a drop for him again if you just hold on to the ball then there is no question there but yeah i think that probably should have been a catch but still and then you have the quentin Skinner one where, again, like he's probably frustrated. He had that one throw from Jalen Daniels that was under thrown where he was

kind of open on like a little corner route or something like that. And that's probably frustrating, but what you can't allow to happen is the frustration to lead to a mistake later, which on the deep ball was a beautiful ball by Jalen Daniels. If he catches that thing, they're first and goal inside the five yard line and who ends up, what ends up happening there so um it's a little bit of everything here and the play calling as well i think is part of

this as we said for bad goats i think for this time it was probably with both coordinators um let's start with the offensive side of the ball again we mentioned earlier like hi sean neal were your top guys but you didn't go to them enough uh the first down play calling was really interesting to me uh so i'm not going to count the final two drives. The final two drives of the game, KU was down 11 points. And it's like, okay, you have to pass the football here. Like, of course, those are going to pass up until those final two drives when it was obvious throw downs. They had 26 first down plays by my account. 15 of them were designed running plays. Those went for 69 yards and a touchdown so 4.6

yards per run which 4.6 yards on first down like that's going to set you up in a lot of second and third and manageables I did not count the quarterback scramble to this which would have added six more yards I instead counted that to the 11 true passing plays that happened one ended up being a quarterback scramble it also did include some penalty yards though they had like a holding there was also a defensive holding they had an offensive pass interference there's also a defensive pass interference um but you only had on the 11 true pass plays on first down if you include for the penalty yardage for it against 24 yards a little over two yards per play you tell me what was better 4.6 yards per play when you ran on first down or a little over two yards per play

when you threw on first down and so again part of that goes to jaylen daniels part of that goes to the offense play calling to the sheet it's it's everything and that is honestly what is most frustrating out of all this uh like what is k you're doing well right now besides running the football with neil and high sean even then because you're struggling in the other areas it's not as explosive as it could be because they're getting to load the box against you um And then you think about the throws short of the sticks again, is that a play calling? Are they setting up plays that are on third and eight when you have to have it at the end of the game, you're throwing the two yard drag route on fourth and,

and whatever it was at the end of the game, when you're throwing just a, you know, a fourth and nine and you're throwing it to the sideline for like a five yard pickup. Like, is that on Jalen? Is that on the office coordinator? I don't know where all this blame lies. It feels like it is just a little bit of everything. As far as the defense side of the ball. I just don't get why they didn't adjust.

It felt like TCU wanted to run that, that RPO and they hit it over the middle. So many times throughout the game and KU didn't adjust and KU continued to have DBs pressed off. I think Kobe and Mello are still going to be NFL corners, right? And I don't know, do both get drafted? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. But like both are going to get a shot in the NFL.

You would think that KU does not, is trying to protect their corners the way that they are allergic to trying to play man coverage or try to play physical coverage or try to play press coverage of the line of scrimmage, at least give it a try in a game like this. I just, I don't understand that. And then KU started to struggle to stop the run, which that was its whole other thing. You couldn't tackle in the second half. I guess that'd be a good goat too.

Maybe that was KU just getting tired. Maybe that was hitting a quit wall. I don't know. It's too many I don't knows, which is not a good thing to have right now. The officiating gets a bad goat. Wasn't the reason you lost, but there were several key plays that certainly didn't help and certainly distanced you a little bit more and were key momentum plays to say the least and then the pass blocking uh jalen daniels was under

a little bit more pressure than you'd like there's some shuffling going on at like the tackle positions right now there were some holding calls at the tackle positions right now the pass blocking a bit of a struggle so overall just pass offense forU has been kind of a mess. All right, let's finish up. Outside of that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln? We're going to finish up what's next for KU football. This episode is brought to you by GameTime, which has a new feature called GameTime Picks that makes getting tickets for your favorite live events even easier.

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We'll make this quick. I had a couple of comments reaching out to me being like, Hey, we don't need to spend more time on locked on Jayhawks outside of some weekend shows talking KU football. I know some people are still diehards and you're still going to want to hear it. We'll,

we'll think about what we want to do, but we are getting close to KU basketball season. So we will see what the content forces out here. But at Arizona State, it'll be this upcoming Saturday. It is a Saturday night game for KU. Arizona State's looked pretty good. So that has to be a little bit scary for KU. And then after that, you have the bye week,

which at this point, much needed bye week for KU. Then after that, you're back at home against Houston, which honestly, the loser of that game is going to be sitting there going, yeah, we're the worst team in the big 12. And after where kids, I mean, we were talking about the off season.

Does Kansas have a shot to win the big 12? And now we're going to be talking in a couple of weeks, unless you win at Arizona state, which you're not going to be favored to do. Is Kansas the worst team in the big 12? If you lose that Houston game, that is certainly going to be, you know,

not just a discussion. Like it's going to kind of be fact at that point in time. Still time to turn the season around and I hope they do it, but based on what we've seen so far, I don't know what the confidence level would be that that's going to be the case. I don't know for this episode of locked on Jayhawks. We'll be back early in the week, bigger takeaways from this game,

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