The NFL certainly still views the Dallas Cowboys as "America's Team." They gave the Cowboys eight standalone games for the upcoming 2025 season. That's tied for the most in the league in 2025 with the three-time defending AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs and the 2024 NFC runner-up Washington Commanders for the most in the upcoming season.

The Dallas Cowboys' 2025 season will be historic because they are doing something that the NFL has never seen before.

Let the Brian Schottenheimer era begin. The Dallas Cowboys hired the first-time head coach this offseason after they parted ways with Mike McCarthy following a disappointing 7-10 effort in 2024. They also traded for wide receiver George Pickens to provide more support in the aerial attack alongside CeeDee Lamb.

On Wednesday afternoon, we had our annual half-hour phone conversation ahead of the schedule release, and this guy already knows the schedule front to back. The league went through thousands of iterations of the schedule,

The Eagles were expected to host the NFL's Kickoff Game after winning Super Bowl 59. Here's why the league chose the Cowboys as their opponent.

Ahead of the NFL's full 2025 schedule release Wednesday night, Netflix announced its Christmas Day slate of games.

Kickoff time is 8:20 p.m. ET on Thursday, September 4, and the game will air on NBC and Peacock.

Happy midweek and NFL Schedule Release Day, everyone! John Breech is busy loading our schedule-leak tracker with all kinds of juicy updates, so today's Pick Six Newsletter is brought to you by Cody Benjamin, with tidbits on all the latest from around the NFL.