This is a brief stay in The Alamo City -- one day of San Antonio fiesta and 15 ensuing days of San Antonio siesta – and while DallasBlog.com will be there for daily reports. … well, let me put it this way: I’ll be able to pack light.

Remember two-a-days, the Junction Boys-like Texas tradition? Dead as Bear Bryant.

The Cowboys will endure just six episodes of two-a-days, and never on back-to-back days. The other nine workout days feature a single 2:30 p.m. practice (wouldn't want to disrupt anybody's morning nap!)

I'm kidding about the lack of a workload, of course; there is no "right'' answer for how much a team should endure during camp, and in this salary-cap era, maintaining a team's health is just as important as clobbering one another. In coach Wade Phillips' case, he's seen training camp handled a variety of ways. But as a disciple of both his dad, Bum, and ex-Bills coach Marv Levy (whose teams traditionally were the last NFL clubs to begin camp), it figures that this Cowboys camp won't resemble a Bataan Death March.

Still, it's somewhat notable that Phillips will meet with the media once daily (when there's been a single 2:30 workout, he'll speak about a half-hour after the end of practice, say, at 5 p.m.; when there are two practices, he'll speak a half-hour after the a.m. session, say, at 11:30.). Count up the Tuesday, July 24 festivities (a 3 p.m. State of the State presser and then a 6 p.m. Kickoff Event, neither of which includes any actual football practice) and Wade is talking almost as much as his team is practicing.

The tentative schedule:
Tuesday, July 24: 3 p.m. opening press conference; 6 p.m., Kickoff event
Wednesday, July 25: 230 practice
Thursday, July 26: 9 and 330 practices
Friday, July 27: 230 practice
Saturday, July 28: 9 and 330
Sunday, July 29: 230 practice
Monday, July 30: 9 and 330
Tuesday, July 31: 230 practice
Wednesday, Aug 1: 9 and 330
Thursday, Aug 2: 230
Friday, Aug 3: 230
Saturday, Aug 4: 9 and 330
Sunday, Aug 5: 230
Monday, Aug 6: 9 and 330
Tuesday, Aug 7: 230
Wednesday, Aug 8: 230, and break camp.

And that's it. All at the Alamodome. Presumably with the A/C cranked. It's a good thing the Cowboys got so much accomplished at the minicamps and the OTAs, eh?

Nine single-day workouts. Six two-a-days. Seventeen press conferences. A bunch of parties. A controversy or two. All in the span of sixteen whirlwind days.

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