WASHINGTON — The Redskins will be playing on Thanksgiving once again, and what’s more, they’ll be doing so against the bitter rival Dallas Cowboys, according to a report by Sports Business Journal.

The report claims “the league is likely to schedule a Cowboys-Redskins matchup for Fox’s Thanksgiving Day game.”

That should make one Ed “Too Tall” Jones, who recently expressed a desire for the NFC East rivals to play every Thanksgiving to 106.7 The Fan’s Grant and Danny, happy.

Washington and Dallas haven’t clashed in the league’s marquee Thursday event since 2012, when Robert Griffin III led the Redskins to a 38-31 win in Dallas.

Aside from that game, however, the Redskins are 0-6 against the Cowboys all-time on Thanksgiving, and the Cowboys have outscored the Redskins by 58 points in all Thanksgiving games.

“I think those Redskins Cowboys games took football to another level when we were trying to compete with baseball, which used to be the sport,” Jones said on Feb. 4. “Those Thanksgiving Day games is something that I hate they stopped. That shouldn’t have ever stopped. Those games, whether you were a Cowboy or Redskins fan or not, you still watched that game and they were always great games.”

This year’s Thanksgiving, which falls on Nov. 24, will feature the eighth iteration of Redskins-Cowboys, as well as the Detroit Lions — like the Cowboys, a Thanksgiving mainstay — matching up with a division rival, if SBJ’s report is accurate. The report cites the Minnesota Vikings as the most likely NFC North opponent for Detroit, as the Chicago Bears have played the past two Thanksgivings and the Green Bay Packers have played two of the past three.

With the Redskins coming off a 9-7 season a trip to the playoffs, and the Cowboys expecting a bounce-back year with the assumed return of quarterback Tony Romo, the matchup looks good on paper even without the built-in rivalry element. Throw in decades of disdain, and the matchup sells itself.

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