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Every year, the UNFELs Count on Combine has storylines, but this year is one of the most
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historic workout weeks I can remember, and the running backs only added to that fact
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And here with you, five days a week coming up on today's episode, more history made
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at the UNFELs Count on Combine by running backs.
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And just how deep is this receiver group?
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It's pretty deep, pretty deep along with some quarterbacks, a quarterback, rather, that
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I might not have seen the Commanders go after when it comes to the end of April, all that
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coming up on today's episode of Lockdown Commanders, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network,
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your team, every day.
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The running back group added to what has been a historic weekend for the UNFELs Count
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on Combine, continuing a streak of record breaking speeds with an average 40 yard dash time
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of 4.42 seconds, became the fifth consecutive position group as we get into sets in all
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time record for speed.
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The best fit coming out of the group.
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I know some of you are just going to love hearing me say this, Jeremiah love running
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back out of Notre Dame, a true home run, hitter 436 speed, a lead ability, gives the Commanders
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a dual threat back who can split out wide and do just about everything.
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If you need them to no doubt in my mind or I think anybody's mind that he is the best
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fit and no surprise, he's also the best running back in this year's class.
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The best Commanders comp.
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I'm going to go with another Notre Dame, Golden Domer, Jadarian Price, reminds me a little
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of the JD McKissick not so much dimension wise, but he got, he got quoted as being best
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in show during the running back group, which I think is a very high praise indeed during
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his own field drills for that and for his vision, his ability to catch smoothly, navigate
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through the trash in the interior, has lead footwork.
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I think really kind of reminds you of an up high upside JD McKissick, if you remember
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him, just stylistically how they play.
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On top prospects that stood out, obviously Jeremiah Love, the elite, elite player that
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was a quote, I heard it down from Daniel Jeremiah's coverage, elite, elite player, number
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two overall prospect in the NFL by a lot of measurements, bigboard rank for PFF has
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Again, that might be changing after this weekend easily, a top five projected player, which
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I know some commanders fans want him at number seven, but he might not be there at number
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Again, ran official four, three, six, just really an amazing ability to make defenders
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miss, but also not break his stride on tape showed a lot of that fluidity, a lot of that
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agility and ability on the field there in the workouts at Lucas Oil Stadium.
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Daniel Jeremiah also said, quote, it is so fun because it is home run after home run after
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It's like watching judge just park it up in the seats and quote, fun story went to our
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first Yankees game in Yankees stadium as a family last season, last off season, I
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care, remember it was in the last 365 and it's first time my wife ever got to see her in
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judge and he had a very bad game like struck out like twice, grounded at once and really
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do much of anything and so according to my wife's recollection, he's not a good, he's
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not a very good player, I explained to her that it's not all that he does, but according
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to her one exposure, not a good performance from Mr Aaron judge, anyway, back to the prospects
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Mike Washington, junior running back out of Arizona, out of Arizona, out of Arkansas, got
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very emotional after his workout, your after night, his full workout after his part of his
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work, I ran a 4 3 3 40, the fastest running back in the group broke down in tears was on
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the phone doing so just really kind of shows you the emotions of the moment on the work
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that goes into it, also at a 10 foot 8 inch broad jump 39 inch vertical, which kind of
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correlates that lower body ability, a really great workout for him, jadarian price as we
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talked about, he ran a 4 5 40, thought he was there was reports out there that people thought
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he was kind of cruising, could have gone a little bit faster, but he was also cited as
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like we said, best in show during the drills, saw the smoothness out of them, saw the change
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of direction out of them, currently the 59th ranked player on PFF's big board, a second
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round projection, Mike Washington is the 160th ranked player on PFF's big board early
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4th round projection, although that might be getting better after this weekend, as well
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Demon Clayboard on a wake for a start of the day, with a 4 3 7 40 time very, very fast, he's
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undersized 188 pounds, but he's at significant juice, and he displayed that juice in some of
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the off field drills, consistently the fastest player through the bags, when the time came, he's
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currently ranked as a 142th player by 42nd 42th, what the heck, he's the 142nd player, according
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to PFF, a 5th round projection for him. The most important drill of the day for the running
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bags, if you watch the on drill sessions, the off-packle recognition drill, a lot of off-tackle
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in today's NFL, but it replicates a, as real world as you can get, of reading your blocks,
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sifting through the trash, finding the hole, finding the lane, being able to do that. It kind
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of reminded me, we watched those watchmakers offense, this last training camp do a lot of running
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drills, more running drills than we expected to see during the early part of training camp with no
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contact allowed, and that's kind of what they're doing, is engaging how well these running
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bags see the hole, see the blocks, set them up, be patient, things like that, and then hit them,
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a jittery price, again, a piece of me best to show, no surprise that he was also the best
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in this drill, and one of the quotes from the, from the broadcast quote, price was the best one
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through the drill, so far with that first rep, that was smooth, and quote, jam Miller, an honorable
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mention from this running back group, 443 speed, showed really good burst and recovery during a
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wheel route slip, but either way, jam Miller or someone who stands out just as a kind of a,
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a guy that everybody should know, whether or not he ends up with the wash commands or not,
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certainly has what looks like the ability to do some good things in the national football league
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here, moving forward, the wider seer group is deep, and what it was called stacked, it's been called
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fat in the middle during the week of combine drills, we'll talk about some of the best including
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the best fit and the most Washington commanders like comp from that group coming up next on today's
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today wide receiver group is stacked in the 2026 NFL draft it was even called fat in the middle
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during the NFL scouting combined coverage by NFL network we're talking about
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wide receiver groups as we continue our look at the drills over the weekend in Indianapolis the
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best commanders fit from the wide receiver group working out in Indianapolis has to be cardinal
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tates out of Ohio State arguably the best receiver the NFL draft although some people have
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Jordan Tyson some people you know the wide receiver group obviously can be flipped in in no
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numerous different ways Washington needs a Z receiver they need someone who can go deep get high
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things like that and I think a vertical stretch weapon is exactly how you describe carnell tates
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would give Jane Daniels a massive catch radius and really complimentarium corns route running
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and then develop to the point where wintery is ready or when it's time for Terry to take a step back
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carnell tate probably would be ready to take that step up I think the most interesting commander's
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comp that I saw on field macaque lemon kind of a James and Crowder type and obviously James and
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Crowder was five eight I think macaque lemon came in like five eleven so not a size for size comparison
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but sturdy slot specialists who wins with leverage strong hands and traffic very much reflective of
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what we saw from James and Crowder as early as 20 or as recently as 2024 in fact making some
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game winning catches and converting a lot of third downs things like that let's get to the top
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prospects standouts from the receiver room Brennan Thompson Mississippi State fastest guy of the day
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426 40 back 20 speed was noted as elites he's a fourth round macaque right now ranked 126 on the
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pff big board coming into the event deon berks at Oklahoma also ran a sub 444 40 right of 434 flat
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third round projection 94th overall player had a flawless catching session during the drills on
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the field carnal tate we talked about him Virgil stretch guy did run a 453 though it doesn't
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seem people are really all that worried about I guess some hand time tata more like in a 444 range
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anyway but he's always been more of a long strider than a sprinter so nobody's really upset about
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that overall pff ranking number nine certainly a first round projection macaque lemon not only
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to see a slot specialist but he himself compared his own game to almond Ross Saint Brown who of course
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we've been talking about a lot this offseason because what we project the david blau often
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to look like so those who are on the macaque lemon train or tree may be lemon tree you know what I
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mean uh might be there strong and sturdy and tough is the way that he was described uh 10th
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player on the pff big board certainly a round one projection there Zachariah branch out of Georgia
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showed some explosivability caught everything and then did multiple cartwheel flips those things
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if you're interested in that kind of thing as well currently a third round projection 79th overall
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big board rank 435 speed ball skills human highlight real quote unquote is what we heard during the
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broadcast about Zachariah branch the most important drill for the wider seaver you probably already
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know this the gauntlet drill one is one of the most fun uh drills to watch anyway it's one that I
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always imagine would be blast try to run uh but I would probably get blasted speaking of in the face
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multiple times by footballs um like we've unfortunately seen in some combines past uh but look it
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tests receivers ability to maintain that top speed flat line and then catch them balls naturally
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tuck them away drop them get ready for the next one back and forth all that kind of stuff Zachariah
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branch absolutely balled out in this show exceptional ball or body control ball control as well um
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broadcast quotes quote I was really impressed with branch the way he caught the football that was
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all hands very strong and quote uh Denzel Boston a honorable mention here out of Washington six foot
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four and a half uh giant vacuum is how he was described catch radius kind of reminds me like a
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Mike Evans type and just what happens Mike Evans is getting close to retirement Skylar Bell
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wire to your out of Yukon 4 4 speed ultra productive uh positional uh player as well quarterbacks you
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know obviously the Washington mayors don't really need a quarterback but uh we do have uh some
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interesting quarterbacks out there in the field I'm going to go through this anyway best
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commanders fit would be Fernando Mendoza the number number one uh player on the big board and soon
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to be number one overall pick so if the watch mayors needed a quarterback Fernando Mendoza would
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probably be the one best commanders comp is Ty Simpson Alabama quarterback arguably the best workout
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of the day uh looks a lot like Kirk cousins uh son of a coach excellent feet good release mechanics
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are consistent considered by some being a lead thrower very Kirk cousins ask uh type of guy some
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other uh prospects that performed here tail and green out of Arkansas uh does delivered a great
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performance six foot six set the all-time quarterback regular for vert uh 43 and a half vertical jump
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and broad jump 11 feet two inches before running a four three six so super athletic seventh round draft
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pick uh prospect uh projection I should say 228th player on the pff bigboard ties Simpson we just
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talked about him he's a second round projection 36 on the pff bigboard certainly or some people
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are going to think that he works his way back into the back end of the first round potentially trade
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happening there at the back end of the first round for someone to come up and get him with that
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fifth year option Carson Beck also uh looked pro ready i was commented that he's have a PhD in
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past pro six foot four two hundred thirty three pounds uh and his intelligence have always been a
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thing round four ninety seven overall player on the pff bigboard truthly i've never been a big Carson
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Beck guy so fourth round kind of seen the fit uh Drew Aller uh powerful arm looks all of it uh
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look good pretty much uh pretty good for what you expect coming off the injury these coming off
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a fifth round projection ranked 140th uh of course the washman is again not looking for a quarterback
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here most important drill the deep ball go route you want to see that touch you want to see that
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accuracy uh you want to see them do you have the ability to drop the ball in the bucket the guy
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that i would not mind the washman's potentially taking a run on in april as a undrafted free agent
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would be heinous king quarterback out of george attack top five all time speed ran a four four six
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and was noted as the quote unquote toughest dude in the drafts uh wouldn't mind having that guy
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on the roster if the washman's find themselves in need of a camp in bite quarterback
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and uh you know working with david blow jane daniel's who knows what he good new develop into
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potentially back end uh backup type quarterback in the national football it's going to do it for
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