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I'm Greg Rosenthal and beyond excited to be joined today by Jane Slater of NFL Network.

You will recognize her from the NFL Network polo. She's always wearing this time of year up in Oxnard,

but she's now back in the Dallas area. But you're not just a Dallas Cowboys reporter. You can talk NFL, Jane Slater. So we're going to do some news before we get to Cowboys Talk. Yeah, I'm just as excited about the football season as a lot of the fans are. I'm obviously following it very, very closely. And there are, I mean, some of the things that have happened in the last couple of weeks, I don't know about you, Greg, but I am a huge fan of the Real Housewives franchise. They've got nothing on the reality that seems to be some of these

storylines that have peaked in the last couple of weeks. Well, I feel like they could do a Real

Housewives, maybe like the real single ladies of Dallas and have Slater on. I almost feel like

you've been trying out for that quietly for years. Like your life is a reality show. It feels like it sometimes. All right. So we're going to do some news, like I said, and then we're going to talk deep dive into the Cowboys. We'll try to talk some of the stuff on the field because we've hit the contract so hard, but I'm more interested in what this team's actually going to look like this season.

And then we're going to wrap up the show with Pete Sweeney from Arrowhead Pride.

So talking Cowboys, talking Chiefs today.

But first, we will do some news.

News.

Yeah, bummer, Jane, that we're starting with a quarterback injury that didn't see coming.

Nick Shook and I spent the top of our show on Monday morning.

Just so excited about how good J.J. McCarthy looked, and he apparently hurt his knee in that game,

came into the building Monday morning after not saying a word about it on Sunday and

he told him he had some knee soreness and it turns out he needs surgery for a torn MCL.

At this point we are waiting to find out how or what kind of surgery he's going to get whether it's going to be a full repair or if it's just going to be a trim,

the full repair would potentially knock him out for the entire season.

The trim would be four to six weeks.

And I think we might have got a little bit of a hint from Kevin O'Connell of what's more likely in this situation when he spoke to the media on Tuesday.

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