{"id":81747,"date":"2025-08-22T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=81747"},"modified":"2025-08-23T01:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T01:17:03","slug":"warning-cowboys-embattled-backup-qb-torches-his-haters-with-8-word-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=81747","title":{"rendered":"WARNING: Cowboys Embattled Backup QB Torches His Haters With 8-Word Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"has-video wp-caption \">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" 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=\"Joe Milton III\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"2463\" data-dom-ready-time=\"2506\" \/><\/figure>\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,\u00a0when Milton gets his third and final\u00a0start 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\u00a0Thursday 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\u00a0<em>SportsCenter<\/em>-worthy plays are outweighed by his shortcomings in executing the fundamentals of playing quarterback in the NFL.<\/p>\n<h2>Milton\u2019s Rocket Arm Draws Criticism<\/h2>\n<p>One\u00a0persistent criticism of Milton\u00a0has 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\u00a0too fast and too hard for receivers\u00a0to 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\u00a0the second-fastest pass ever recorded by an NFL quarterback, nearly 62 mph.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joe Milton with one of the hardest thrown balls in NFL history<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>the DB stops running because he doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s possible!\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/m5UyINazgE<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Mike Renner (@mikerenner_)\u00a0January 6, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"1ba9db270e79039a821fc1f086fbdd91\" class=\"embed_container\">\n<div class=\"lazy-embed lazy-embed--ssr embed-twitter-com lazy-embed--loaded\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikerenner_\/status\/1876281743898251629\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\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\u00a0Milton declared, as quoted by\u00a0CBS Sports.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81747","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 - 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