{"id":81477,"date":"2025-08-22T01:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=81477"},"modified":"2025-08-22T01:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:54:31","slug":"cowboys-embattled-backup-qb-torches-his-haters-with-8-word-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=81477","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Embattled Backup QB Torches His Haters With 8-Word Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Joe-Milton-torches-haters.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Joe-Milton-torches-haters.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Joe-Milton-torches-haters.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Joe-Milton-torches-haters.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys Embattled Backup QB Torches His Haters With 8-Word Burn\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Joe Milton III had something to say to his critics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dallas Cowboys potential backup quarterback Joe Milton III is fighting for his job, and will get one final chance to win a spot behind starter Dak Prescott on Friday night, when Milton gets his third and final start of the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys host the Atlanta Falcons in the final game for both teams before Dallas kicks off the first official NFL game of 2025 season on Thursday night, September 4, against the reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field.<\/p>\n<h2>Everything Riding on Friday Game For Milton<\/h2>\n<p>Will Milton still be on the Cowboys roster by then? Will he be relegated to the practice squad, or cut from the team altogether? Or will he have beaten out seven-year journeyman Will Grier for the No. 2 Cowboys QB role behind Prescott?<\/p>\n<p>After two occasionally encouraging but often frustrating performances against the Los Angeles Rams and Baltimore Ravens, those questions are likely to get their final answers on Friday against Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes it seems that the odds are stacked against Milton, who has repeatedly had to prove himself to critics who say that his exceptional, raw physical talents and frequent <em>SportsCenter<\/em>-worthy plays are outweighed by his shortcomings in executing the fundamentals of playing quarterback in the NFL.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Milton\u2019s Rocket Arm Draws Criticism<\/h2>\n<p>One persistent criticism of Milton has been that, due to his cannon-like arm which one expert called \u201cin the mix for the strongest I have ever evaluated,\u201d Milton\u2019s passes lack \u201ctouch\u201d and that he simply throws the ball too fast and too hard for receivers to handle.<\/p>\n<p>In his lone career regular season appearance, for the New England Patriots against the Buffalo Bills in Week 18 last season, Milton fired off the second-fastest pass ever recorded by an NFL quarterback, nearly 62 mph.<\/p>\n<h2>Milton Has 8 Words For Haters<\/h2>\n<p>But speaking to reporters after Thursday\u2019s final practice session of the Cowboys\u2019 training camp, Milton finally addressed his critics \u2014 dismissing in eight words the complaints of any receivers who gripe that he fires the ball with too much velocity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be in the NFL getting paid,\u201d Milton declared, as quoted by <em>CBS Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, Milton had plenty more to say to his critics beyond his eight-word message, claiming the does not throw the ball too hard at all.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Milton Clears Air Over Throwing Ball \u2018Too Hard\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s clear the air, I don\u2019t understand why people say I throw the ball so hard,\u201d Milton said. \u201cI\u2019m literally not throwing the ball hard. It just comes off my hand like that. I was born and blessed that way. If you think I\u2019m throwing the ball hard, then you shouldn\u2019t be in the NFL getting paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milton did receive some positive feedback for pass made in practice earlier this week that showed \u201ctouch,\u201d placing a ball in the arms of receiver Deuce Vaughan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a a tight window that required a perfect throw,\u201d reported Joseph Hoyt of the <em>Dallas Morning News<\/em>. \u201cMilton did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer said earlier this week, per <em>CBS Sports<\/em>, that Milton\u2019s problems in the preseason have come less from his velocity than from the use of his feet, which still needs work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of his missed throws were a little bit more of his footwork got a little sloppy,\u201d Schottenheimer said. \u201cThere were a few times where his footwork was off a little bit. He was a little bit ahead of the route, so he was kind of waiting. Then, he felt late, so then he wanted to drive it in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jonathan Vankin JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Press Association awards for sports feature writing. He was a sports editor and writer at The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo, Japan, covering Japan Pro Baseball, boxing, sumo and other sports. More about Jonathan Vankin<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Cowboys<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys backup quarterback fighting for his job, had a few choice words for haters of his rocket throwing arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":81478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cowboys Embattled Backup QB Torches His Haters With 8-Word Burn - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=81477\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cowboys Embattled Backup QB Torches His Haters With 8-Word Burn - 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