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Speaker 1: What is up Everybody? And Will Selva in these year

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Speaker 1: good morning football headlines from NFL Network. The twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one NFL schedule was released on a Wednesday. Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: in the Bucks will kick off the season on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: September ninth against Dak Prescott and the Cowboys. Fast forward

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Speaker 1: to Week four, which will mark Brady's first meeting against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots since he signed with the Bucks as a

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Speaker 1: free agent last top seasons. The Packers were signed five

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Speaker 1: primetime games for the twenty twenty one season, despite the

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Speaker 1: uncertain status of reigning MVP Aaron Rodgers. Other teams with

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Speaker 1: five primetime games include the Buccaneers, Cowboys, Rams, Forty, Niners, Ravens, Chiefs, Steelers, Seahawks,

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Speaker 1: and Saints. Based on strength of schedule, which is determined

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Speaker 1: by opponent's records, in twenty twenty, the Eagles, Cowboys, and

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Speaker 1: Falcons had the easiest schedules, while the Steelers, Ravens and

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Speaker 1: Bears had the toughest. For the first time in forty

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Speaker 1: four years, the NFL will chang to share as you're

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Speaker 1: expanding to seventeen regular season games. Meanwhile, Detroit first round

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Speaker 1: pick Penney Sewell will not join the rest of the

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Speaker 1: Lions rookie class for the start of rookie Minicamp this week.

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Speaker 1: Sewell announcing Wednesday on Twitter they recently tested positive for

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, saying Sewell quote, really wish I was heading

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Speaker 1: to my new home today and able to be at

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Speaker 1: mini camp with my new teammates and coaches. Look forward

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Speaker 1: to getting out to repeat as soon as I'm cleared.

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Speaker 1: The NFL reinstating in season COVID nineteen protocols for the

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Speaker 1: starter of voluntary workouts, meaning Sewell is subject to a

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Speaker 1: mandatory ten day quarn team. The Lions hold rookie Minicamp

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Speaker 1: Friday to Sunday, with rookies due to report Thursday. The

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Speaker 1: Jets working out better wide receiver Tavon Austin on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Austin spending last season with the forty nine Ers and

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Speaker 1: Packers Washington football team, bolstering his offensive line, signing veteran

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Speaker 1: tackle Charles Leno Junior to a one year deal worth

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Speaker 1: five million dollars. Leno starting ninety three consecutive games that

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Speaker 1: left tackle for the Bears, Chicago releasing him earlier this

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Speaker 1: month after trading up in the second round to pick

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State offensive lineman Kevin Jenkins. The Broncos also got

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Speaker 1: some help on the O line, signing right tackle Bobby

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Speaker 1: Massey to a one year deal for four million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Beer and QB Blake Bortles is in Green Bay to

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Speaker 1: sign with the Packers. Bortles flank for a green Bay

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett and Jacksonville before moving on a

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Speaker 1: stints with the Rams and the Broncos. He last played

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Speaker 1: in the game for the Rams during the two nineteen season.

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Speaker 1: Chad Kelly and Kurt Fenkert are also expected to try

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Speaker 1: out for the team at this week's working mini camp

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Speaker 1: and speaking at QBS. Eagles QB, Jail and Hursts will

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Speaker 1: be switching numbers next season. The second year QB will

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Speaker 1: wear number one. The Eagles backup quarterback Joe Flacco will

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Speaker 1: wear number seven for the first time in his NFL career.

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Speaker 1: Flacco had previously worn number five with Ravens, Broncos, and

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Speaker 1: Jests and some sad news passed along in the world

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Speaker 1: of football, Vikings Ring of Honor coach Jerry Burns passing

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Speaker 1: away Wednesday at the age of ninety four. Burns' tenure

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Speaker 1: include eighteen seasons as offensive coordinator and six as head coach.

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Speaker 1: The Will family issuing the following statement, quote, Jerry Burns

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Speaker 1: is one of the most important people we met when

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Speaker 1: we came to Minnesota, and he was a foundation of

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Speaker 1: this franchise. His leadership as a coordinator and head coach

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Speaker 1: for over two decades shaped some of the most successful

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Speaker 1: teams in Vikings history. As love of life, quick smile,

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Speaker 1: and sense of humor or what we will remember most.

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Speaker 1: We joined Vikings fans worldwide and sending our prayers to

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Speaker 1: his family. I'm will salve them and those here. Good

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Speaker 1: morning football headlines from NFL Network