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Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is an exclusive

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Speaker 1: presentation of Dallas Cowboys Breaking News. That's right, it is

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Speaker 1: breaking news. It's everybody's favorite day of the NFL year,

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Speaker 1: at least in May. It's the off season's best day

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Speaker 1: other than maybe the drafts three weekends. But the NFL

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Speaker 1: schedule is officially out and we are not going to

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Speaker 1: waste any more time. We're gonna reveal it right away.

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Speaker 1: I'm Nick Eaven, David Hellman, Rob Phillips. You guys excited

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Speaker 1: to finally see this thing. And it's it's been it's

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Speaker 1: been a lot of speculation here. You guys ready to

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Speaker 1: finally see it. It's the start of the season, right like,

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Speaker 1: it's real. Now you can plan it out, you can

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Speaker 1: look at you know, you look at it from like

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Speaker 1: college football. And also no, not just that, but like,

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Speaker 1: oh no, no, they gotta go to a cold weather city.

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Speaker 1: They got you know, they might be playing in a blizzard.

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Speaker 1: They got three home games in a row. So I

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Speaker 1: say that because you know, we we plan our lives

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Speaker 1: around this kind of stuff. So you have to do this, Rob,

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Speaker 1: what are you excited to see here. I just applaud

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Speaker 1: the NFL for maintaining the news cycle through every month

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Speaker 1: playoffs in the NBA. And one of these days it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be seventeen days of regular season release. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: have like twelve days at Christmas, except I believe you

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Speaker 1: seventeen days worth. Wait, the day after the draft will

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Speaker 1: start of OTA's genius. All right, Well, let's get going.

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Speaker 1: This morning, we were informed that the Cowboys are gonna

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Speaker 1: play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week one. So let's

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Speaker 1: look at the first five games of the schedule here

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. And here they are. Cowboys started

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Speaker 1: gonna go across the country to the LA Chargers. Get

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Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium there. Philadelphia Eagles first home game will be

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Speaker 1: then the New York Giants at home. Three straight home

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Speaker 1: games here to start the season. Um, let's go to

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Speaker 1: the next week's Oh, just at the Patriots. That's the

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Speaker 1: throwing game, right the oponent, I should say, there's the

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Speaker 1: bye week, what do you think of Is that a

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Speaker 1: good spot rob for the bye week? I mean, it

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Speaker 1: always depends on injuries, but it seems pretty good there.

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Speaker 1: Anytime you can get it middle of the season. I

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Speaker 1: think that's usually what coaches wants. That's not bad better

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Speaker 1: than Week three, you know. Yeah, Sunday night football at

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Speaker 1: the Vikings. I said this morning, Dave, I thought that's

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Speaker 1: and so that that will be. Of course, we'll see

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Speaker 1: how loud it gets in there, how many maybe different

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Speaker 1: decibel level this year as opposed to last for sure,

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Speaker 1: Raiders on Thanksgiving. That's becoming a every four or eight years.

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Speaker 1: the first time they faced the Washington football team this

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Speaker 1: late in the year. I just it's it seems obvious

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Speaker 1: And don't don't forget there, I mean, all this Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: their schedule release show as well. But we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: But before we do, and here's the first five games.

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Speaker 1: But Dave, I'll say first, we'll start with you. What

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Speaker 1: What I wrote about and I said is Dallas in

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's a good thing, Like, yeah, if the division

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