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The Eagles should’ve petitioned the NFL to ask for better competition, healthier opponents, or a lower seed so that all the experts on Twitter would approve of their validity.
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Jeffrey Lurie’s hiring process for head coaches is the best in the NFL. He’s found three diamonds in the rough now that nobody talked about until he interviewed them. Andy Reid was a QB coach who relayed play calls. Doug was an OC who relayed calls until 3 months before his hire.
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Seeing a lot of misunderstanding about the ball placement here. By no means is this a bad or inaccurate throw. This is the opposite. It’s elite placement on a body shield throw against leverage. If he put it any further upfield, it’s incomplete. It’s taught and drilled this way.
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It’s not physically possible to place this ball any better. Perfect throw.
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Not having Smith or Brown is really highlighting how poorly this passing offense is coached and planned. It’s reliant on great players being able to separate and make plays. Nothing is schemed to help players.
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Troy is right. The switch to Patricia was the worst decision in a season full of bad ones. Desai deserved better, and they’ve gotten objectively worse since.
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This offensive system should never see the light of day ever again, and anyone who would allow it to is just part of the problem. Not on any level of football. It set the players up to fail continually and allowed defenses to dictate the terms of play.
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The best possible 1st round ever for the Eagles. I am blown away.
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Jalen Hurts needs a new voice guiding him during the season. He was making good decisions at a high clip last year and it made him elite. Now he’s trying to do way too much and it’s not working. Whatever that may be, whether a new QB coach, play-caller, or an outside perspective,
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This is coaching malpractice. It’s hard to put into words how bad this system is if you can’t even beat pressure.
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Jalen Hurts is going to be extended as soon as they can legally do it. There’s 0% chance he’s not their long-term QB. He’s exceeded every expectation they had in their wildest dreams.
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Hurts is just playing phenomenally. His development has been truly unbelievable.
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I liked this so much that I won’t wait until tomorrow morning to talk about it using the film. This is good enough. This is a snap won with pre-snap process and post-snap key reads. It looked simple, but he made it that way. A lot of QBs don’t make it simple for themselves.
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I apologize that I have to cut this commentary short, but I’m getting dumber watching football this poorly played and coached. A 35-0 loss would probably be the best thing for the organization going forward. That would definitely wake Lurie and Roseman up if it hasn’t already,
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Doug Pederson only had two teams wanting to interview him last year. Two. Somehow he ended up with a generational talent at QB, and the
@Jaguars
were given the opportunity to make the best decision they’ve ever made.
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Watching the Eagles’ overall passing scheme this year, it’s pretty incredible how little separation they’re able to manufacture for everyone not named Brown, Smith, or Goedert (the ones who don’t necessarily need to be schemed open). There isn’t any staff in the NFL with a
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There are thousands of high schools in the country that have better answers for pressure than a team that nearly won the Super Bowl last year. That’s incredible. Talent only takes you so far.
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One of the best teachers, technicians, evaluators, and advance scouts for the most important position group in building is somehow not employed in the NFL in any capacity. Eugene Chung should be at or near the top of every potential OL Coach list for new HCs.
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Aaron Rodgers is still the gold standard of throwing, in my opinion. Nobody has used their body more efficiently as a rotational athlete. The way he explodes off the ground a bit from the toes of his left foot on release…unreal. Wrist action and follow through are the best ever.
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Tyreek Hill met his match this day. Having a speed demon play 2i who can own an A gap and run stride for stride with Hill was taken for granted.
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I wrote this letter for Sirianni to help him keep his job and the overall offense. I was going to do the defense but I didn’t feel like writing a novel.
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Howie’s drafts since 2021 have been outstanding. The way Jordan Davis, Nakobe Dean, Nolan Smith, Quinyon Mitchell, and Cooper DeJean develop will ultimately dictate how history views them, but I walked away from each of those drafts in the moment thinking he couldn’t have done
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The Eagles defense is 11 individuals just running around like their heads are cut off on every snap. There is zero coordination between the 3 levels, the front and coverage, or any other substantive area required to play competent defense.
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Dallas made this closer than it should’ve been relative to roster situations and health, but good on the Eagles to answer. Dallas is legit, and they’ll only get better and better when Dak returns.
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I’ve said this a few times each season and I know many others have too so it’s nothing new, but for as great as DeVonta Smith has been so far, I think he’s one of the most underutilized receivers in the league. He should be motioning into stacks, bunches, and snapping on the move
Watching the Eagles’ overall passing scheme this year, it’s pretty incredible how little separation they’re able to manufacture for everyone not named Brown, Smith, or Goedert (the ones who don’t necessarily need to be schemed open). There isn’t any staff in the NFL with a
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Anthony Richardson isn't getting out of the top 5. He's been interviewing well and there's nothing on film that's anything close to a complicated fix. He's one of those guys with an unlimited ceiling that only he can prevent himself from reaching, and I see no reason to think not
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Jalen Carter is going to be a special, special talent in the league for a long time. I can’t believe a contending team got to add a player of his caliber in the draft. That almost never happens.
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This is Pederson’s version of Mesh-Rail with how he teaches it. This is the version from which he builds most of his Mesh concepts off of.
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The classic Andy Reid route tree. It’s more evolved now, but this is a good look at the basic routes, depths and all that.
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Jordan Davis should’ve been a top 5 pick. Given how much defense is about structure and the balance between defending gaps and dividing field space/receivers in coverage, I’m surprised more teams didn’t value him like the Eagles did. They saw the ultimate force multiplier.
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The Eagles are the template for how to assemble an RB room in the salary cap era.
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The defensive staff the Eagles are putting together is the best one they’ve had since 2006.
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The King mic’d up. You can feel Sheldon Brown’s hit on Hank Baskett at the end.
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I know we all acknowledged it when they all got extended, but the Eagles’ 2018 draft has to be one of the best “bang for your buck” classes in NFL history. Four Pro Bowl-level players in 5 picks is ridiculous.
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Haason Reddick has been named NFC Defensive Player of the Week by me just now.
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Easily one of the best players of the 2010s who would be in Canton if executing his responsibility within each call were a statistic for 4i & 5 techniques.
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I will never understand the logic of using 4th Qtr comebacks and close, "hard-fought" wins as some sort of argument for the greatness of a QB. Most of the time, the reason those situations were even necessary was because they sucked for the first 45 minutes. Process > Result.
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This is an example of the thought process behind “scripted” plays. They’re not scripts. They’re a way to ask the defense questions that can be used on the test later. This is a brief example, but all 15-25 of them follow the same thought process. It’s about information.
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Front structure identification key. This is specifically from an offensive perspective and how I’d teach it to a QB in a modern WCO. It doesn’t apply to how I have talked or will continue to talk about fronts from a defensive perspective, such as with Fangio-based defenses.
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I know for a fact that Nolan Smith was a legitimate target for the Eagles at 10. The fact that he fell to 30 is insane.
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This is an old QB manual from the Eagles’ 2010 early install period that was put together by Marty, James Urban, and Doug Pederson. It’s just a small look into the process Andy Reid and his staffs go about developing the position within their offense.
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Kellen Moore on packaging plays that use the same presentation (formation, alignment, shift, and motion) together in order to put the defense into conflict. This is standard stuff that coaches like Pederson utilize to make his play call sequencing more effective.
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Lane Johnson is the best player on a roster of elite players. They built their offense around him just as much as they do with any skill player. Not having him for the playoffs would alter what they do in both the run and pass game by a significant amount.
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Stout is the mayor of NovaCare
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This folder is full of information on coverage structure, schemes, and concepts for anyone looking to learn more about them. It’s mostly zone and split-safety structures so far, but I’ll be adding Cover 0, 1, zone dogs, and man dogs once I organize it.
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I’m told that Hurts has all but guaranteed his status as QB1 going into 2022. He’s done everything they’ve asked of him and has gotten more comfortable with each game. They’re aware of how much the team and staff revere him. They don’t want another controversy. Lurie loves him.
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That was one of the worst-coached games from this Eagles staff so far, but they still won. That says a lot about them to me. Just need to recalibrate some issues on all 3 sides.
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Spags is one of the most underappreciated coaches in NFL history. He is not only one of the best people you’ll ever meet and someone I wish my kid could play for, but a genius who can take the most complicated rush/coverage concepts known to man and make my mother understand
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Some of the finest coverage pedagogy you’ll find is Dave Aranda’s.
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A brief on the Quarters match coverage concepts I just posted about from the Saban family, courtesy of Kirby Smart and his staff’s great outline.
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Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis are both playing at a Pro Bowl level through 3 games, but the way they’re making life easier for the rest of the defense is what sticks out and that’s even more impressive. They’re both force multipliers that make it feel like there’s 13 defenders on
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This has been on my chest for a while, but I don’t think you should be able to vote for or have an opinion on the President of the United States unless you’ve been a President of the United States.
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My only real takeaway from the Eagles’ defensive film is that Josh Allen is really not fair when he’s utilized in a way that makes you honor him as a +1 threat in the run game, a scramble threat against muddied coverage looks, and is launching cannonballs to sharp-cutting routes
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This is weak as fuck and incredibly disappointing. It’s exactly the type of nonsensical bullshit that just furthers idiotic stereotypes. Jalen Hurts apparently is less than the position he’s excelled at and been objectively good at because QB expert Robbie Gould says so.
"If you make Jalen Hurts play quarterback, you're probably gonna have a pretty solid day on defense."
@RobbieGould09
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I’m an even a bigger fan of Kellen Moore today than I was even before I dove head first into the mechanics of his pass game and got a much better feel for how he goes about these specific things…
— utilizing formations & alignments to create matchups and provide information
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This from Dave Aranda may be the best simplification of what route concepts are, how they work, and why they work.
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A lot of people probably watch him and say he can’t read anything or is looking for too much, but the reality is that those are symptoms of poor installation, coaching, and/or not reinforcing priorities in regards to decision-making.
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Jordan Davis is already one of the best Noses in the NFL. They’re getting exactly what they needed and the ceiling remains invisible for him. They’re getting to 3rd down so much more efficiently with him anchoring their Tite/Tuff and Penny fronts compared to last season.
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Watching a Corner play 10 yards off with zone eyes on 3rd & 2 is just really funny to see in the NFL. You essentially forfeit the down by doing that, then tomorrow Patricia or Sirianni will talk about having to get better on 3rd down as if it’s something brand new they have to
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Eagles offensive game plan is one of the worst in recent memory.
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I think it sucks that Brian Johnson was the scapegoat for an offense that he very clearly was not the father of, but if this is what it takes to kill Sirianni’s system once and for all, then so be it. BJ is going to get a chance to actually be an OC eventually instead of just the
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Everyone will point to the results instead of looking at what really dictates long-term success, and that’s process. I get that they’re 11-5 and nearly won a Super Bowl, but that’s what every team does when they’re in a rut. They point back to old accomplishments instead of
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There is no better fit for the Eagles than Jalen Carter. What an absolute heist.
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I wouldn’t wish this offense on my worst enemy. If your plan is that you need a very capable QB, two top 10 WRs, an elite OL and a top 5 TE just to score 20 points, you’re fucked. Talent shouldn’t be making a system work. The system needs to make the talent work.
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This season has been the worst secondary play I’ve ever seen from an Eagles team. The depth/leverage maintenance is just complete dog shit. There’s thousands of high school teams doing it at a higher level right now.
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Justin Fields has a bright future. Really high ceiling. He’ll go through the natural rigors of adjusting to the league and evolving his craft, but you don’t make it this far by disregarding those things so I like his chances. Great arm, has shown he can read out concepts.
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CJ Gardner-Johnson should be extended sooner rather than later.
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I’d have more sympathy for the bad call if the defense deserved it. I don’t think you have a right to complain about that when you play that bad.
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The Eagles just need to draft a legitimate compliment to Goedert at TE and they will have a monstrous 12P package. Stout’s 12P run game has been woefully underutilized the past few years.
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The Eagles should find a way into tricking Desai that the first half is actually halftime of a game where they just surrendered a bunch of explosives and need to figure it out now, then treat halftime as overtime preparation. He’d be the best ever if they could get that to work.
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That is just awful. They seemingly grow worse against pressure every week. It’s amazing.
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There will be a bombardment of some of the worst reps and calls in coverage you’ll see from an NFL defense by the Eagles hitting this platform today. The film is turning out to be worse than I thought it was live.
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It looks like Baun played really well on the surface. Interested to see what kind of story the film tells. As rough as it got defensively, this was a game they would’ve lost last year. Having a play caller who knows how to handle every little situation within a game is incredibly
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Awesome. Hurt coached with Vic in Chicago and has been an excellent DL coach. I’m sure Rocker is an awesome dude, but there were way too many plays where multiple players didn’t fire off the ball and ended up being mauled backwards 5 yards. It was really undisciplined and lacking
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Only one more “we still have everything right in front of us” bullshit spiel from Sirianni before he has to at least approach the answer as to how an offensive system run by an NFL team can be so awful and how the defense got considerably worse *after* the decision he made that
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The way they went out was actually really easy. The staff sat on their hands for months hoping magic dust would blow over the players and make things the way they were in 2022. That would actually be a better explanation than the team getting objectively worse on both sides while
“Everybody in that lockeroom is hurting right now. We’re hurting right now. It’s tough to go out the way we did”
-Nick Sirianni says every single player put their heart and soul into this and he’s not worried about himself
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Some of the diagrams I use to teach the types of reads the QB needs to be able to make.
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Jalen Hurts’ Catchable Ball % (91%) and On-Target% (75%) are amongst the best in the league, higher than the phenoms. That’s great progress in a consistent throwing mechanism, which is where ball placement derives from. (This is how you cherry-pick stats) Seriously, good for him.
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Quinn gets to play in the same front he did so well in last season, but with better personnel on more concentrated reps.
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What a signing. This is by far the most balanced the Eagles have been at CB since Lito & Sheldon. Balancing that position provides even more options on top of the options the front provides.
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I always get a few questions on the numbers I use to classify coverages, and it’s totally fair since there’s no universal terminology. I’ve also altered it a bit over the past few years. This is just what I use to communicate structure and the basic mechanics of a coverage.
Cover 8 is one of the foundational coverages in Desai’s system, and against 3x1 with a Trix check, it plays kind of like Saban’s Clip.
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The one assistant Lurie could give a blank check to and he’d still be underpaid. No position coach provides more value to a franchise than Stout does to the Eagles. Their entire OL room is homegrown with 9 legitimate starters, 5 of which are likely the top 10-12 at their spots.
#Eagles
run game coordinator/OL coach Jeff Stoutland, who received interest from multiple teams for offensive coordinator positions this cycle, has agreed in principle to a contract extension with Philadelphia, per league sources. Eagles’ O-line has been elite under Stoutland.
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The Bears are trying to squeeze players into a specific scheme instead of building a scheme around what your players do best. Justin Fields should not be operating under center as a +1 QB. It’s a complete waste of a great asset that gives you a big advantage.
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Jack Driscoll should be the starter at RG for the Eagles to begin this season, and I think he will be. There’s a ton of people just assuming Seumalo will be gifted that spot because of how he played at LG before, but Driscoll’s simply the better player at RG.
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Sirianni is so far ahead of the pack of NFL coaches when it comes to the size of his metaphorical balls.
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Here’s a link to the folder with all of my drives for anyone interested in learning from it. The Eagles D drive and the coverage drive are in the Defense folder. Route Concepts and Coverage ID are in Quarterbacking.
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Like most of us, I’ve become a big fan of Lou Anarumo these past two seasons. He’s a really good game planner. This is him on his 2 Tampa.
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The Eagles coverage chart from Monday looks a whole lot like it was called by a Belichick disciple rather than a Fangio one. It was a ton of Cover 1 rather than split safety Cover 5 variations to take away a stud like Kelce. Very different from how they treated Jefferson, Evans,
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Isaac Seumalo is going to be a valuable addition for Pickett. Few linemen in the NFL can see the play happening and diagnose intent before the ball is ever snapped like he can, and one of them just happened to play next to him so he rarely got the credit he deserved.
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As far as any offensive lineman the Eagles draft, it’s funny how nobody will ever have the nerve to question it, myself included. You can just chalk it up to being a great pick already. Nothing happens with the OL room unless Jeff Stoutland approves it.
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Some updated defensive terminology for the stuff I’ll be posting in the near future.
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