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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I am Dale Alli,

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Speaker 1: he is Matt Williamson, and uh Matt. Let's jump around

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Speaker 1: the league here a little bit too from around the

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Speaker 1: league this weekend. Obviously, that Brian Robinson news out of

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Speaker 1: Washington not good. Um, it could have been worse. It

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Speaker 1: could have been worse. Shot twice, said it's always over there.

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Speaker 1: He was shot twice, but it wasn't a shot multiple times.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't life threatening. I'm like, yeah, anytime you're shot, it's threatening.

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Speaker 1: And what part of his body he got hit? But

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Speaker 1: obviously this is not something to laugh about. It. Poor

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Speaker 1: young guy got shot and it sounds like he's gonna

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Speaker 1: survive and all that. And I don't know what his

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Speaker 1: situation is getting back on the field or any of

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Speaker 1: that stuff. Um, but he was set to be their starter.

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Speaker 1: I mean, heind of took over the job, and you know,

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Speaker 1: just kind of doing research on him from draft stuff.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was loved at Bama. Tough guy, and

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Speaker 1: he wasn't the most talented running back in the in

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Speaker 1: the Alabama system, but he was did all the tough stuff.

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Speaker 1: And I thought about this and I don't know you

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Speaker 1: were closer to the team. They were interviewing nausey like

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Speaker 1: late in the fourth quarter the national feed, and I thought,

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Speaker 1: I wonder if he knows yet, you know, because we

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Speaker 1: did here. I bet not, probably not. He was in

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Speaker 1: like great spirits. I mean, that was Nazi's backup. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure they're close. I would not be best friends, but

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Speaker 1: yeah I would. I would bet that they're They're you know,

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Speaker 1: acquaintances a lot of times, the same running back room

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Speaker 1: for a lot of years. Uh. John Harbaugh on Ronnie

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Speaker 1: Stanley said, when he gets out there, we'll start coaching him.

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Speaker 1: He was activated from the physically unable to perform list

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Speaker 1: on Friday, which makes him eligeable to practice for the

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Speaker 1: first time, but he's still not ready to take that

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Speaker 1: step eligible to practice for the first time. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's not wonderful. Yeah, he did not take part in

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Speaker 1: today's practice. I should know this, But I don't know

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Speaker 1: who the who has been holding down the left tackle

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Speaker 1: for I don't know. That's a lot of right tackles

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Speaker 1: on that. I don't know who they've been asking to

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Speaker 1: do it. Meanwhile, they haven't lost a preseason game in

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Speaker 1: a million that's the most that's the dumbest thing. Ever.

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Speaker 1: The least you want James is his backup. Um, if

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Speaker 1: he's been taking reps at left tackle or not, I'll

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Speaker 1: go look into it. I'm looking at their at their

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Speaker 1: depth chart. Here's Ronnie Stanley, Juwan, James, David Sharpett left tackle,

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Speaker 1: Morgan Moses and Daniel Fileles are the right tackles. It

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Speaker 1: only got five tackles on the roster, so Moses has

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Speaker 1: only played right in his life. I always thought James

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Speaker 1: was right owned as well, but maybe by you know,

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Speaker 1: put file at left tackle when the NFL that, No,

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Speaker 1: you can't do that. I mean he's as big as

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Speaker 1: an island, but you can getting motor boat around that island. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's a problem for them. It's the biggest

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Speaker 1: problem for them. And doesn't sound like Dobbins is necessarily

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Speaker 1: can live without the running backs for a couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: but you can't lose the left tackles. Different. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: left tackle not being ready to play yet is something

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Speaker 1: of an issue for that Ravens team. Looking at some

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Speaker 1: other stuff here, we're starting to see some reports of

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Speaker 1: guys who are getting released. Here, every guy who gets

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Speaker 1: released I get, especially if it's an offensive if it's

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Speaker 1: an offensive line or an outside or an edge guy.

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Speaker 1: What about this guy? What about this guy? Okay, I

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Speaker 1: mean they're looking at the same way. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna pay attention to everyone getting cut, but that doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean they're interested in all of them or that any

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Speaker 1: of them are better than what the Steelers are playing with.

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Speaker 1: The other thing, I think there's two ways of looking

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Speaker 1: at guys that get cut. Kind of like we talked

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Speaker 1: about in the first segment, was well, I I've been

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Speaker 1: coaching this guy up for months or years or whatever.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he's not good enough. So foor number

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Speaker 1: two is just better. Door number two probably isn't better either,

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Speaker 1: especially if it's attack. Nobody's cutting right good players on

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Speaker 1: their offensive line that somebody tweeted out today, thirty one

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Speaker 1: teams are gonna be cutting offensive lineman this weekend, and

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Speaker 1: the Steelers should be signing all of them. Come on,

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Speaker 1: come on, They're not better than what they got, you know,

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Speaker 1: and there is some value if it's a tie, you know,

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Speaker 1: just on tape. You want the guy that knows the

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Speaker 1: system and knows the checks, and you don't want to

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Speaker 1: take a new guy in and teach them from scratch either.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's also part of the problems with trading

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Speaker 1: Green aren't good enough. It's like, no, there's just something

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Speaker 1: go get them. Yeah. Absolutely. Um, I haven't see a

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Speaker 1: ton of news today all in all. Yeah, I'm looking here,

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Speaker 1: Um some again, some cuts coming in. Uh. Drake London

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Speaker 1: here On NFL dot Com, Harbaugh thinks there's a chance

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Speaker 1: Stanley can play in Week one. He's saying there's a

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Speaker 1: chance that he could play in Week one. He ain't

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Speaker 1: playing in week one. I mean there is a longer

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Speaker 1: Bozeman with the Panthers is expected to be ready for

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Speaker 1: week one. Brian Burns. Yeah, Brian Burns dealing with some soreness,

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Speaker 1: but looks like he'll be okay. Panther Rudolph connection you made,

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Speaker 1: left because they've been very aggressive in trading for quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: and doing things of that nature. We've talked about this,

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Speaker 1: but I would for me to listen to a Rudolph trade,

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Speaker 1: it has to be a five or better. But I

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Speaker 1: would also consider a player. Yeah. Oh, that's why I

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Speaker 1: wanted to say. I was gonna say, like, oh, trade,

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Speaker 1: about well, I thank you. They should just keep Rudolf

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Speaker 1: a compic next year. It's not going to get them

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Speaker 1: a compensatory pick. I'm guilty of putting that in people's

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Speaker 1: heads that will help them offset their compensatory formula, he's

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Speaker 1: not getting them a compensitor doesn't necessarily work that way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, even if they didn't sign anybody, Mason didn't

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Speaker 1: sign anybody, Mason Rudolph simply signing with another team is

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Speaker 1: probably not going to be one of the top thirty

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Speaker 1: two contracts next year. Yeah, I mean that's how that works.

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you get a compic only getting out thirty

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Speaker 1: two of them, but he helps your equation. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: have thrown that out there too on the air, and

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Speaker 1: so I've probably helped plant it in people's heads. But

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Speaker 1: I still think next off season they'll probably bring in

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Speaker 1: more than they lose exactly, you know, So it doesn't

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna get because they're gonna they have money.

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Speaker 1: Nobody resigned. Yeah, so use it on your own guys. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, So I think that's uh right, that's not

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. That part of the factor. It really isn't relevant. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Mark has been Valdes Scanting announced Monday he's out of

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Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster returned to practice come Monday, so that

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs wide receiver group, they're the starting to people

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Speaker 1: are interested. I think they've kind of hot hit sky

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Speaker 1: More a little bit in preseason on purpose. They've used

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Speaker 1: that Watson dude a lot um Hardman went down. But

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Speaker 1: and I think I think Juju will catch the most

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Speaker 1: some reports out of Kansas City where Juju Smith Schuster

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh because that's what he was. That's what he was,

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Speaker 1: and that's what he did best. Yeah, I mean he

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Speaker 1: I mean can he do it? Yes? He did it

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Speaker 1: up outside the numbers and two receiver sets. I mean

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Speaker 1: And I brought this up a lot too. He's a

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Speaker 1: zone beater. Well, the chief saw the mozone of any

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Speaker 1: I mean he was the highest paid end in the league. Yeah, inflated,

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Speaker 1: three type of end. He was a good player not

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Speaker 1: long ago. Yeah. Um. Well, the Titans releasing Brit Kerr

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Speaker 1: a rookie or something somebody. Yeah. Of course the bill

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Speaker 1: is also releasing their punter that uh that they drafted,

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Speaker 1: with a job that makes sense. Whiteman or Reitman, his

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Speaker 1: but this guy might win the job, so you know whatever. Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's get back to the Steelers game against the Lions. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: I thought that they held the three points, yeah, and

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Speaker 1: understand that the quarterback play for the Lions was not

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Speaker 1: Um I thought they basically shut him out. But I

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Speaker 1: they give hundred yards in the first half again, forty

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Speaker 1: eight yards rushing. Twenty seven of that came on one

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Speaker 1: play where they said that was yeah, painful to watch.

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Speaker 1: I think he's what he said, and that was one

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Speaker 1: Devon Bush has to get off of the block. The

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Speaker 1: tight end came out and got him, but the defensive

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Speaker 1: backs gotta get yours around too. I mean, that's what

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Speaker 1: that team did. Do you last year A lot. Bush

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Speaker 1: uncommon at that position finding that. But you know, Tye Summers, Okay,

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Speaker 1: a while. Yeah, he is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lally.

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