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Does Ottis Anderson deserve Hall of Fame consideration?

Is retired New York Giants RB Ottis Anderson worthy of Pro Football Hall of Fame consideration? The numbers suggest he is.

The New York Giants are well-represented in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. However, there are a few figures in Giants history that many fans would love to see enshrined — Tiki Barber, Phil Simms, Ernie Accorsi, and Tom Coughlin.

That list also includes running back Ottis “OJ” Anderson.

Anderson essentially had two careers — one with the St. Louis Cardinals and another with the Giants. Cumulatively, they add up to a Hall of Fame career.

Selected eighth overall by the Cardinals out of Miami in the 1979 NFL draft, Anderson earned Offensive Rookie of the Year and All-Pro honors later that season. He was selected to the Pro Bowl the next year as well.

In seven-plus seasons in St. Louis, Anderson rushed for 7,999 yards on 1,858 attempts — both still Cardinals’ franchise records — for a 4.3 average. In 1986, he lost his starting gig to Stump Mitchell and was traded to the Giants in October for 1987 second- and seventh-round selections.

Anderson played six-plus seasons for the Giants, won two Super Bowls, was named the NFL Comeback Player of the Year in 1989, and the MVP of Super Bowl XXV.

Ottis is one of only four running backs in NFL history to score rushing touchdowns in two Super Bowls and win a Super Bowl MVP (Hall of Famers Franco Harris, John Riggins, and Emmitt Smith are the others).

Anderson’s 10,273 rushing yards are 30th all-time and his 13,335 yards from scrimmage are 44th in NFL history. He is 19th all-time in rushing touchdowns with 81. When he retired in 1992 Anderson ranked seventh in rushing touchdowns and eighth in rushing yards.

Anderson was inducted into the Giants’ Ring of Honor in 2022 but has yet to be recognized by the Cardinals’ organization.

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Giants inducting Leonard Marshall, six others into Ring of Honor

The New York Giants will induct seven members into the Ring of Honor in 2022, including Leonard Marshall and Ronnie Barnes.

It’s been a long time coming, but Leonard Marshall is finally entering the New York Giants’ Ring of Honor.

Co-owner John Mara officially announced the news on Tuesday and noted that six others will be joining Marshall. They include Ottis Anderson, Joe Morris, Rodney Hampton, Jimmy Patton, Kyle Rote and Ronnie Barnes.

“We are proud to add these deserving and legendary figures in Giants history to our Ring of Honor,” Mara said. “Each of the players was among the very best at his position to wear a Giants uniform. All of them helped our franchise win championships and enjoy long-term success, as has Ronnie Barnes, who has been an invaluable and beloved member of our organization for decades.”

The induction ceremony will be held at halftime of a Week 3 game against the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife Stadium on Monday, September 26.

Marshall was a second-round pick of the Giants in 1983 NFL draft and spent 10 seasons with the team, winning two Super Bowls. He was also named to the Pro Bowl twice and earned Second-Team All-Pro honors twice.

Anderson joined the Giants via trade from the St. Louis Cardinals in 1986 and spent six-plus seasons with Big Blue. He also earned two Super Bowl rings during that time and was named MVP of Super Bowl XXV.

Hampton was a first-round pick of the Giants in the 1990 NFL draft and spent the entirety of his eight-year career with the G-Men. He was a two-time Pro Bowler and picked up a championship ring with the club as a rookie.

The Giants selected Morris in the second-round of the 1982 NFL draft. The two-time Pro Bowler spent seven seasons in New York and led the NFL in rushing touchdowns in 1985. He was also a key part of the Super Bowl XXI team.

Patton was an eighth-round pick of the Giants in the 1955 NFL draft and spent his entire 12-year career with the team. He was a five-time First-Team All-Pro, one-time Second-Team All-Pro and earned five Pro Bowl honors. He helped lead the Giants to an NFL championship in 1956 and lead the league in interceptions in 1958.

Patton passed away in 1972 at the age of 39.

Rote was a first-round pick of the Giants in the 1951 NFL draft and he spent all 11 years of his career with the club. He earned two Second-Team All-Pro honors and was named to the Pro Bowl on four separate occasions. Like Patton, he helped lead the team to an NFL title in 1956.

Rote passes away in 2002 at the age of 73.

Barnes was hired by the Giants as an assistant athletic trainer in 1976. He was promoted to athletic trainer in 1980 and just one year later, became the first-ever full-time Black head athletic trainer in NFL history. He has been with the Giants for all four of their Super Bowls and was inducted into both the ECU Athletics Hall of Fame and the National Athletics Trainers Association Hall of Fame.

In 2019, Barnes was given a lifetime achievement award.

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32 days till the Cardinals’ 2022 season opener vs. Chiefs

Check out some of the Cardinals who have worn No. 32 over the years.

The Arizona Cardinals have one final open training camp practice for fans to see and have their first preseason game in two days.

There are 32 days until their season opener, when they take the field at State Farm Stadium against the Kansas City Chiefs.

No. 32 is the number worn by undrafted rookie receiver JaVonta Payton. He and other players in the Cardinals’ past to wear No. 32 are below.

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Ottis Anderson: No one from modern era compares to Lawrence Taylor

Ottis Anderson, like Bill Belichick, finds humor in the repeated attempts to compare modern defenders to the dominance of Lawrence Taylor.

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Over the years, many have questioned if some of the NFL’s premier defensive talent compares to that of New York Giants legend Lawrence Taylor. Names like Jason Pierre-Paul, Khalil Mack and Myles Garrett come to mind.

One of Taylor’s former coaches, Bill Belichick, gets asked year after year whether the Pro Football Hall of Famer is due to be surpassed as the greatest of all-time. And each time, Belichick literally laughs it off.

One of Taylor’s former teammates, Ottis Anderson, recently sat down with Giants Wire on behalf of Novo Nordisk to discuss his battle with type 2 diabetes. Anderson got the disease after his playing days with the Giants and still remains a staple in the Giants community.

We asked Anderson about the repeated attempts to compare Taylor to defenders of the modern era and whether any of them hold a candle to L.T.

“Man, no. Everyone’s trying to find the next Michael Jordan, the next Dr. J, the next LT. Like you say, the next Tom Brady. It’s always going to be that next, next, next but sometimes it’s just like, ‘dude, there’s just one original.’ That’s all it is, an original,” Anderson said. “And everybody is trying to find that next big person and sometimes it’s just not out there.

“The game is so different now, how can you even compare? Like if you look at the quarterbacks during my era and the yardage they threw for, and now you look at what these guys are doing now, you’d go, ‘man, if they could have played when we played or if they played in the time these guys are playing now, their records would be unmanageable.’ You would never be able to get anywhere near it. But because we played when football was football, I don’t even know what they call it now, I’m still trying to figure that one out.”

Aaron Donald is probably closest to the level of dominance displayed by Taylor throughout his career, but the resounding belief is that Taylor remains alone at the top of his craft.

As the game continues to change, many defensive stars (especially along the defensive line) will draw comparisons to LT. However, for those who played and coached with Taylor, and those who squared off against him, there will never be another like him.

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Ottis Anderson: Giants need to ride with Daniel Jones, Saquon Barkley

With an improved offensive line, retired New York Giants great Ottis Anderson believes QB Daniel Jones and RB Saquon Barkley will thrive.

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Two of the most controversial first-round picks in New York Giants history have come recently: running back Saquon Barkley (2nd overall, 2018) and quarterback Daniel Jones (6th overall, 2019.)

Now, just a few years removed from drafting them, the Giants are in full rebuild mode. As a result, they’re taking a hard look at everyone on the roster including those two and even last year’s first-round pick, Kadarius Toney.

Former Super Bowl MVP Ottis Anderson recently sat down with Giants Wire and talked about the futures of Barkley and Jones.

“I mean, [Saquon is] such a talent though,” said Anderson, who is a patient ambassador with Novo Nordisk and aims to help inspire people to be more proactive about their health. “I don’t think you give up on him right now. From what I can tell, he has a trust issue with his offensive line and based on what [the organization] has done for him, it’s understandable.

“They have not been good to him. He has done a lot of work the hard way without having a great offensive line. He’s gotten injured because of his work ethic and he’s trying to do more than what I always considered he’s capable of doing. They need to keep him; they need to surround themselves [with better talent].

Anderson feels similarly in regards to Jones.

“It’s the same thing with Daniel Jones,” Anderson said. “They’re trying to surround him with better talent. If you surround a kid of his talent with better talent then the team is going to have a much better running back — the kind of back we saw when he won rookie of the year his first year.

“It’s still in [Barkley], but a new staff and new coaches, maybe they can get that out of him — the trust that he didn’t have for his former offensive linemen and his former teammates. But every year, when you’re a young ball player and you’ve been injured, you’re always on the chopping block for a trade and it’s not a great feeling but at least you know somebody wants you. If they are trying to trade you that must mean somebody wants you or somebody thinks you are good enough to land somewhere else but they should keep him.”

Clearly, the former Super Bowl champion thinks the Giants need to improve the offensive line to get the most out of Jones and Barkley:

“Yeah, I hope that’s what they do in the draft. I hope they address that,” Anderson said.

“I think they are trending in the right direction but with Daniel. When you have Eli, Peyton and Archie — they watched this kid grow and mature when he was playing and they saw this talent and when he became available — they all had a hand in saying take this kid. The Manning boys, I don’t think they’ve been wrong too often in their careers about too many things. You look at their careers, they both are two-time Super Bowl champions. One is a two-time Super Bowl MVP and Archie had a great career himself. I think they have a head up on everybody when it comes to the quarterback and who is good and who isn’t good.

“Yeah, they need to stay with Daniel. I don’t think there is anything out there that is better. Who they going to go get Baker Mayfield? Bring Baker in there? We know better than that.”

As the Giants continue to evaluate talent, some stability in the coaching staff and some improved talent on the offensive line would go a long way toward finding out what the Giants truly have in Jones and Barkley.

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Throwback Thursday: Rams, Flipper Anderson stun Giants in 1989 playoffs

In the latest Giants Wire Throwback Thursday, we head back to the 1989 playoffs when the Los Angeles Rams stunned the New York Giants in OT.

In 1989, the New York Giants were back in the playoffs for the first time since their dominant, Super Bowl-winning season three years before.

In 1987, they opened at 0-2 before the players went on strike. The owners continued the season with replacement players, something the Giants did not stock up on, and before you could blink an eye, they were 0-5. They recovered to finish 6-9, but it was not enough to qualify for the postseason.

In 1988, the Giants finished 10-6 but failed to secure a postseason berth when they lost to the Jets, 27-21, in the final game.

The 1989 season would be the year the Giants rose back to prominence. They opened the season with an 8-1 record and went on to win the NFC East with a 12-4 record. As a division winner, they drew a bye in the wild-card round of the playoffs.

On Jan. 7, 1990, Bill Parcells’ crew hosted John Robinson’s Los Angeles Rams at Giants Stadium in the NFC divisional round. The Rams had disposed of the Philadelphia Eagles the week before in the wild-card round and came into New Jersey as three-point underdogs.

The Rams were one of the teams that managed to beat the Giants during the regular season, knocking them off, 31-10, in Anaheim on Nov. 12.

In this game, however, L.A. had to come 3,000 miles to play a Giants team that had lost just once at home that season. On a typical blustery Meadowlands afternoon, the feeling in the air was that the Giants were going to romp.

That didn’t happen. Instead, they were flatter than they had looked in weeks.

The over/under on the game was 39 points because, well, it was a Giants game with Parcells at the helm. As predicted, the game was a low-scoring one.

The Giants defense was putting in their typical home cold-weather defensive performance, and New York was up, 6-0, with 17 seconds to go in the first half. That’s when Los Angeles quarterback Jim Everett caught the Giants napping and hit wide receiver Willie “Flipper” Anderson for a 30-yard touchdown strike.

That would not be the last the Giants would see of Anderson on the day.

The Giants regained the lead in the third quarter on a 2-yard touchdown plunge by Ottis Anderson. The Rams would hold the Giants scoreless in the fourth quarter and tie the game at 13 with two short field goals by Mike Lansford, sending the game into overtime.

Fans were getting antsy, groaning about the Giants offense being put in dry dock in the second half by Parcells. An earlier interception that led to a Rams touchdown may have been the reason.

In overtime, the Rams won the coin toss and marched down the field on the stunned Giants. It took only 1:06 for the visitors to score the winning touchdown, a 30-yard reception by Anderson over Giants cornerback Mark Collins that ended with Flipper running straight through the back of the end zone, through the tunnel and into the locker room.

“When I came into the lockers, I was here by myself,” said Anderson, whose only two catches that Sunday were the Rams’ only touchdowns. “I didn’t know what to do.”

Neither did any of us who were watching in the stands. Was that it? Is the game over? Does that count?

It sure did. And it still stings.

The Giants would bounce back from this devastating loss and win the Super Bowl the next season, but it was another long offseason for Giants fans in 1990.

In retrospect, fans still cringe when they think about that day, and when they hear Flipper Anderson’s name, but they shouldn’t. Anderson only caught two passes on the day — both went for touchdowns — but was a well-known deep threat.

They should have been more aware of Anderson, who set a single-game NFL record for receiving yards (336) six weeks before against New Orleans. That record still stands.

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Is Tiki Barber worthy of Hall of Fame induction?

If retired New York Giants RB Tiki Barber Hall of Fame worthy? His numbers compared to his peers may surprise you.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame announcements have come and gone and once again there are no New York Giants on the list. Not that there aren’t any that are worthy.

In a recent article, Bryan DeArdo of CBS Sports lists each team’s top candidate for the Hall. For the Giants, he lists running back Tiki Barber as the Giant most worthy of donning a gold jacket.

After receiving just 11 starts during his first three seasons, Barber broke through in 2000, amassing over 1,700 all-purpose yards while helping the Giants reach the Super Bowl. He went on to enjoy six more highly productive seasons with the Giants that included three consecutive Pro Bowl seasons. Barber earned All-Pro honors in 2005, when he rushed for a career-high 1,860 yards (the 13th-highest single-season total in NFL history). During his final three seasons, Barber averaged 1,680 rushing yards (while averaging 5 yards per carry) and 2,204 all-purpose yards. In 2006, his final NFL season, Barber rushed for 1,662 yards while reaching 2,000 all-purpose yards for a third straight season.

Barber is one of only seven players to amass 2,000 or more yards from scrimmage in three or more seasons. Hall of Famers Eric Dickerson, Walter Payton and Marshall Faulk each did it four times, while Barber, LaDainian Tomlinson, Priest Holmes and Edgerrin James all did it three. Barber and Holmes are the only two on the list not in the Hall.

Tiki’s 15,352 total yards from scrimmage ranks 15th all-time in the NFL, which is more than James and Dickerson and other Hall of Famers such as Jim Brown, Jerome Bettis, Franco Harris, John Riggins and O.J. Simpson.

Barber is also the Giants’ all-time leading rusher (10,449 yards) and holds four the franchise’s top five single-season rushing totals, is second to Hall of Famer Frank Gifford in touchdowns and second in receptions (586) to Amani Toomer’s 668.

Let us also note that another famous Giant is on this list, running back Ottis Anderson, who was listed as the St. Louis/Arizona Cardinals candidate.

Anderson was traded to the Giants during the 1986 season and won two Super Bowls. He was named the MVP of Super Bowl XXV, the Giants’ 20-19 victory over the Buffalo Bills.

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Ottis Anderson thinks Giants should keep Wayne Gallman

Ottis Anderson believes the New York Giants should not only keep Wayne Gallman, but use him as a lesson for Saquon Barkley.

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New York Giants running back Wayne Gallman just finished his fourth season in the NFL as a little-used former college star who never got much of a shot to shine.

Before this season, Gallman only started four the 38 games he dressed for, serving as a complimentary back, first for Orleans Darkwa as a rookie and then for Saquon Barkley he past three years.

In 2020, Gallman became the Giants’ premier back after Barkley blew out his ACL in Week 2. Gallman started 10 games, rushing for 682 yards on 147 attempts a 4.6 YPC average, and scored six touchdowns.

Gallman, despite earning some serious cred with the Giants’ coaching staff and fans, is likely to depart this spring in free agency. But Former Giant great Ottis Anderson thinks the Giants would be making a mistake by allowing Gallman to walk.

“I’ve said for a long time the Giants should never get rid of that kid,” Anderson told Big Blue View’s Ed Valentine on his podcast. “I’m glad they kept him around because he’s very valuable and I love what he’s done. He’s a one-cut and take what you give. He’s not trying to hit the home run every time he gets the ball in his hands. That’s the difference between him and Barkley.”

Anderson said that Barkley could actually learn from watching film of Gallman’s patience and willingness to make runs for lesser yards rather than trying to break the big run every time out.

“Show him films of Wayne. . . look at what Wayne did,” he said. “Wayne took what the defense gave him and he didn’t try to get those home runs every time he touched the football, but you saw them come.”

Barkley is indeed an explosive playmaker but sometimes a nuance here and there can elevate a payer to the nest level. Those nuances could come for both Barkley, should he rebound from his injury, and by re-signing Gallman, who has proved his value and then some to the Giants.

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Friday Flashback: Giants acquire Ottis Anderson in trade with Cardinals

In the latest Giants Wire Flashback Friday, we travel back to 1986 when the New York Giants acquired RB Ottis Anderson from the Cardinals.

In 1986, the New York Giants began the season with a 4-1 record. Their defense — after surrendering 31 points to Dallas in the season opener — was pounding people again. Over next four games, they held opponents to just 9.75 points per game.

The offense, however, was stuck in the mud. They were averaging just 19 points per game, and for a Super Bowl contender, that wasn’t going to cut it.

On Oct. 9, the Giants were facing a tough game against the Philadelphia Eagles, and general manager George Young wanted to bolster the running game. The Giants had Joe Morris, but he was only backed up by Lee Rouson, Tony Galbreath and fullback Maurice Carthon.

Young decided to send second- and seventh-round picks in the 1987 NFL draft to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for running back Ottis “O.J.” Anderson, who had been the 1979 Offensive Rookie of the Year and had five 1,000-yard seasons under his belt.

Here is how Frank Litsky of The New York Times reported the move:

The 29-year-old Anderson is the 11th-leading rusher in National Football League history with 7,999 yards in eight seasons, only 82 yards behind the retired Larry Csonka. In 12 games against the Giants, he ran for 1,123 yards, more than any other active player.

Anderson is expected to join the Giants Thursday and will be available for Sunday’s game here against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Anderson was available for that Philly game and many more afterward. The Giants trounced the Eagles, 35-3, finished the season 14-2 and won Super Bowl XXI.

Anderson rushed just 24 times over eight games for the Giants that year, gaining only 81 yards and a touchdown. In the playoffs, he rushed seven times for six yards and scored a touchdown near the end of Super Bowl XXI, after the game was well in hand.

That was thought to be the final act for Anderson, who was considered pretty much done in NFL circles. But they didn’t know O.J. Anderson.

After sticking around as a backup the next two seasons, Anderson became the Giants’ bell-cow back at age 32 in 1989. He rushed 325 times for 1,025 yards and 14 touchdowns. In addition, Anderson caught 28 passes for 268 yards and was named NFL Comeback Player of the Year.

The next season, he was joined by rookie Rodney Hampton in the backfield but still rushed for 784 yards and 11 touchdowns. When Hampton broke his leg late in the season, head coach Bill Parcells turned to Anderson to lead the way on the ground.

Ottis was the linchpin in the Giants’ ball-control offense, rushing 21 times for 80 yards in the divisional victory over the Chicago Bears. He rushed for 67 yards on 10 carries against San Francisco in the NFC championship game.

But his greatest achievement as a Giant was yet to come. In Super Bowl XXV against the high-flying Buffalo Bills, the Giants’ only path to victory was for them to keep Jim Kelly and Co. on the sideline as much as possible.

They did just that. Anderson rushed 21 times for 102 yards and a touchdown and was named the game’s MVP.

Before the Super Bowl, Ottis showed his humility. At that time, he was eighth on the NFL’s all-time rushing list, sandwiched between O.J. Simpson and Earl Campbell.

“I always wanted to be the featured back on a team that plays in the Super Bowl,” Anderson told reporters during Super Bowl week. “I was with New York the last time they were here, but it was different then. I was sitting at an (interview) table and only two or three of you came over to talk to me. In ’87, I sat and watched Phil Simms, Lawrence Taylor and Mark Bavaro, with the crowds gathered around them, and I wondered what it must be like to get all that attention.

“Now,” he said, gesturing to the ring of reporters around him, “it’s great to be one of the main ingredients on a Super Bowl team. I never thought that this would happen to me, and I appreciate all of you guys — and ladies, too — coming to talk to me. I really do.”

Anderson, considered washed up in 1986, didn’t retire until after the 1992 season. He was 36 years old. In his seven seasons with the Giants, he rushed for 2,274 yards and scored 35 touchdowns. He also caught 77 passes for 567 yards.

Anderson is not in the Giants’ Ring of Honor, but in the hearts of Giant fans he certainly belongs there. Parcells believed Anderson was Hall of Fame timber even before Anderson won the MVP of the Super Bowl.

“He should go to Canton,” said Parcells.  “He’s got too many pelts on the wall. We wouldn’t be here without him.”

Truer words have never been spoken.

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Is Tiki Barber the best Giants player not in Canton?

CBS Sports recently named RB Tiki Barber the best New York Giants player not enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Retired New York Giants running back Tiki Barber may have burned his bridge with many Big Blue fans after his unjust criticism of Eli Manning and Tom Coughlin following his retirement, but that shouldn’t diminish what he did on the field..

During his 10-year career, Barber was one of the best in the game. In fact, during the final stages of his career, Barber was the best in the game, racking up three consecutive 2,000-yard (from scrimmage) seasons.

Ultimately, Barber stepped away from the game having amassed more than 10,000 rushing yards, 15,500 yards from scrimmage and 17,000 all-purpose yards to go along with 68 touchdowns.

But Barber retired one year too early and missing out on a Super Bowl ring likely cost the superstar back a chance at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Bryan DeArdo of CBS Sports recently took a look back at Barber’s career and the career of many other top-end players who have yet to reach the stairs of Canton. In the end, he pegged Tiki as the best Giants player lacking a bust in the Hall.

After receiving just 11 starts during his first three seasons, Barber broke through in 2000, amassing over 1,700 all-purpose yards while helping the Giants reach the Super Bowl. He went on to enjoy six more highly productive seasons with the Giants that included three consecutive Pro Bowl seasons. Barber earned All-Pro honors in 2005, when he rushed for a career-high 1,860 yards (the 13th-highest single-season total in NFL history). During his final three seasons, Barber averaged 1,680 rushing yards (while averaging 5 yards per carry) and 2,204 all-purpose yards. In 2006, his final NFL season, Barber rushed for 1,662 yards while reaching 2,000 all-purpose yards for a third straight season.

Interestingly, DeArdo added a second Giant to his list, but he did so under the Arizona Cardinals.

Ottis Anderson’s success during his eight seasons with the Cardinals, along with his late-career resurgence with the Giants, should be enough to one day earn him a place in Canton. The 1979 offensive Rookie of the Year, Anderson earned All-Pro honors that season while rushing for a career-high 1,605 yards. In his first 86 games with the Cardinals, Anderson averaged 86 rushing yards and 111 all-purpose yards. He also scored 45 touchdowns while helping the Cardinals post three consecutive winning seasons from 1982-84.

Wide receiver Herman Moore, who spent the final season of his career (2002) with the Giants, also made the cut for the Detroit Lions.

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