The Dallas Cowboys will suit up Sunday; this is not a drill. Well, technically, it will be drills, and football-like substance, but it’s more than fans have been able to see since January. The annual Blue-White Scrimmage will take place at AT&T Stadium with the team holding training camp in Texas for the first time in a long time. What is normally the bell cow event of the Calfornia training camps is wholly different, as this year it will not be played in front of the fanbase.

Normally, the Cowboys are in Oxnard, California where they typically hold their training camps but due to the current state of the nation, the Cowboys started and will finish this year’s training camp in Frisco, Texas at The Star practice facility. The game itself however will be presumably streamed for viewers at home live from inside AT&T Stadium and will be the only time fans will get a glimpse of a full practice of the 2020 Dallas Cowboys before opening night in Los Angeles. This game is exactly how it reads, a scrimmage between themselves. The offense against the defense.

In the Jason Garrett era, the Blue-White Scrimmage was a basic training camp practice. The same drills seen during a normal practice might be duplicated but on a larger scale. Part of the excitement was hearing the fans off to the sidelines cheering on the squad. This year however, under new head coach Mike McCarthy things may be a little different.

It will just be players and staff and every bit of trash talk and support will be picked up by the microphones. There won’t be any significant distractions. Extra precaution might be taken due to the fact that they along with the 31 other NFL teams have not participated in any preseason game action.

This scrimmage will have a different look and feel to it but if one thing is for sure about the state of this nation, the fans are ready for some live football on their television sets or smart phones.