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“I’m simply excited that we had an opportunity to get him.”
Joe Milton has loved his first few months with the Cowboys, and the workforce is reciprocating that feeling.
Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones nonetheless can’t consider that his workforce was in a position to get Milton from the Patriots in a commerce again in April.
“I actually should pinch myself that we received him after the final sport that he had up there, beginning there for New England,” Jones told 105.3 The Fan’s Kristi Scales on Saturday. “I’m simply excited that we had an opportunity to get him. And he hasn’t dissatisfied. He’s truly — we’re simply increasingly more inspired by what we’re seeing.”
Jones’s remark about Milton preceded the quarterback’s preseason debut with Dallas, which didn’t go too effectively. Milton accomplished 17 of 29 passes for 143 yards, one landing, and one interception to go along with a 68.6 passer score and 22 dashing yards within the Cowboys’ 31-21 loss to the Rams. A few his overthrows made the rounds on social media.
The second-year quarterback performed all however one drive in Dallas’ loss, main the Cowboys to 2 landing drives.
Nonetheless, seems Milton’s underwhelming exhibiting on Saturday received’t upset the Cowboys an excessive amount of. He acquired excessive marks from Dak Prescott and others within the opening weeks of coaching camp, main him to be listed as Dallas’ second-string quarterback getting into Saturday’s preseason opener. He additionally made an impressive 75-yard touchdown pass in practice this past week.
As Milton seems to have simply gotten the Cowboys’ major backup quarterback job, questions over his function with the Patriots led to him getting traded in April. New England moved Milton, together with a sixth-round decide, to Dallas for a fourth-round decide within the 2025 NFL Draft after signing Josh Dobbs to again up Drake Maye.
The Patriots’ determination to go along with Dobbs as their major backup to Maye was a shock to some, contemplating how effectively Milton performed in his solely motion as a rookie in 2024. He threw for 241 yards and a landing to go along with a dashing rating of their Week 18 win over the Payments.
However Milton, who was the Patriots’ third-string quarterback for practically the complete 2024 season, appeared joyful to depart New England as he’s taken a few jabs at his previous workforce. He called his trade to the Dallas a “blessing” in Could for 4 causes: getting the prospect to be taught from Prescott and taking part in within the warmth, a dome, and for “America’s Crew.”
At the beginning of Cowboys coaching camp, Milton said Prescott has helped him in ways that the Patriots didn’t.
“Dak is a good chief,” Milton instructed reporters in July. “All respect to him. He actually goes out of his approach to assist me, regardless of if the coach is speaking within the assembly, he actually goes out of his approach to assist.
“I’ve been in one other constructing. I understand how that goes. It’s simply very totally different over right here.”
Milton has favorably in contrast the Cowboys’ offense underneath head coach Brian Schottenheimer to the scheme he performed underneath former Patriots offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt on a number of events.
“On the Patriots, it was extra everyone telling everyone what they’re doing based mostly off the play, how lengthy the play name was, the play name’s longer,” Milton stated in July. “Over right here, it just about goes again to my highschool and faculty days, one phrase is a complete idea. I believe studying the offense early like that, and coming in new to an offense, it’s fairly good to have that kind of system.”
Milton will seemingly proceed to get a good quantity of taking part in time for the Cowboys for the remainder of the preseason as Dallas is load managing Prescott following his season-ending hamstring damage in 2024. The Cowboys host the Ravens on Saturday earlier than taking up the Falcons of their preseason finale every week later.
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