00:00I just, this was, I was like, okay, this organization is just stupid.
00:03They deserve everything they get.
00:04Okay, they, I just don't, I am a talent first guy.
00:08I don't understand, I just don't understand getting, you know,
00:12taking a lesser talented player over a more talented player.
00:16In anything I do, in any part of life, I am a talent first guy.
00:22And Joe Milton has talent, and Sam Howell skips rocks.
00:25So if you want to see, you know, 38-year-old Donovan McNabb out there
00:29trying to throw a four-yard out route that's going to go two yards,
00:33then we got the right guy.
00:34Forget even that, though.
00:36Because you're making it sound like it's a choice between Howell and Milton.
00:40They kept both of them.
00:42And then they went ahead and said, nope, you're out.
00:44Well, now, that could have been, I mean.
00:45And then you're out with no compensation.
00:47Right.
00:47Like, no trade compensation, nothing.
00:49And we were.
00:51That's a bad move, to get nothing for him.
00:54You know, you gave him, what, a fourth?
00:57A fifth.
00:57A fifth.
00:58Yeah, so you gave him a fifth, and then you get nothing back.
01:01And then I think that based off the preseason,
01:04something back would have been a little warranted.
01:07I understand the, you had to keep Howell.
01:09He was two million bucks.
01:11Right, he's getting that two million regardless.
01:12Follow the money.
01:13Yeah, you got to follow the money.
01:15So that makes sense.
01:15If you're going to get rid of one of them, it's got to be true.
01:17And he performed well.
01:18Like, he did perform well.
01:19He was fine.
01:20You know, if you got to get rid of one of them,
01:22you got to keep the money.
01:24Right?
01:24You just have to keep the money.
01:26I just didn't understand not getting any compensation in return.
01:29Why did this happen, Bobby?
01:32I did not get clarity yesterday from a lot of people.
01:35One of the things I heard back was focused on the wrong things,
01:38which I know that's very broad.
01:40It sounds like they didn't think he was totally locked into doing the things
01:46that he needed to do to get better,
01:48which he's been talking about before.
01:50It's kind of like just a fun-loving guy,
01:53and he likes to do his backflips,
01:55and he's very chatty.
01:57But I don't know.
01:59I thought that it looked like he had to have put in work this offseason
02:03because he looked better,
02:05and he talked about some of the work that he did this offseason,
02:08and they talked about some of the work he did this offseason.
02:10So this is – they're not playing.
02:15In the Schottenheimer staff,
02:19they're not playing about people that they don't think do the things they want
02:23Monday through Saturday.
02:24If you're not showing up to the meetings on time consistently,
02:27I don't know that that's what Joe Mills' issue was,
02:29but I'm saying these checking boxes of being a pro
02:32and doing your job the right way,
02:35they are taking people's jobs because of it.
02:38And so this one, Todd Archer had apparently said they were –
02:42they looked like they had made up their minds
02:44because Archer had written in an article yesterday,
02:46said they were calling on trades yesterday.
02:49Wow.
02:49Or on Sunday.
02:50And he said it just didn't – nothing had materialized,
02:53and ultimately they just said, all right, I guess we're walking away.
02:55So that makes me think –
02:56If you were calling around the league, that means people were just saying,
02:59no, we don't want him for whatever reason.
03:01No one was offered a six?
03:03I mean, Kyle McCord got traded on Sunday,
03:05and you can't get –
03:06Yeah.
03:06Milton moved?
03:08I basically wonder, like, how –
03:10like, were there limits on where you were going to send him?
03:13Why?
03:14If you were that worried about him ending up somewhere,
03:16you didn't start –
03:17You would keep him.
03:17All right, cut him.
03:18Yeah, you would keep him.
03:18I'm going to throw a bunch of things against the wall.
03:20You tell me what sticks.
03:23Why was he not cut Sunday?
03:25Did he request out, as Zach Wilczuk was saying over and over yesterday
03:30on the G-Bag Nation?
03:31Todd Archer came out and shut that down,
03:33saying, no, Joe Milton did not request out.
03:37That was my first reaction, too.
03:39That was my first thought.
03:40I was like, oh.
03:41Yeah, and I would have been pissed at the Cowboys.
03:43Yeah, unless he was going to be a problem.
03:46I mean, how much of a problem –
03:48like, you'd be the third quarterback.
03:50Like, I would say, Joe, too bad.
03:53Suck it up.
03:54Be quiet.
03:54And go take notes.
03:55Keep developing.
03:56I'm not giving you your –
03:58you haven't been here for ten years.
04:00This isn't a Cooper Rush situation.
04:01We're going to do right by you.
04:03You've been, you know, a veteran leader behind the scenes.
04:06You're a brand-new second-year project for us.
04:11No, we're not just going to cut you because, you know,
04:14we are running a business over here,
04:16and we have to get stuff back,
04:18and we have to look out for our own best interest.
04:19So I would be mad at the Cowboys if that was the case,
04:22where he's like, no.
04:24And they were like, okay, go ahead.
04:25Go on your merry way.
04:26I was hearing from both sides yesterday that's not it,
04:30that he didn't ask out.
04:31And so I don't believe he did.
04:34That was a problem when he left New England was people felt like he was a
04:39malcontent there and that he was already kind of, ah, dude,
04:42you think you've earned a whole lot more than you have.
04:44You need to chill.
04:45Why would you throw away the development?
04:49Now, I know a lot of people are going to say, probably Brad Sham included,
04:52this was a corresponding move to the new running back that you picked up,
04:57the TCU Horned Frog.
04:58Somebody had to go.
04:59You needed a roster spot.
05:01He gone.
05:02And Joe Milton had to be the sacrificial lamb.
05:07Now, will we look stupid or be given the Cowboys praise if Joe Milton passes through,
05:16nobody picks him up,
05:16and he's right back on here on the practice squad,
05:19because they'll say that was our original intent the entire time.
05:22My follow-up to that is who had the least likely chance of getting picked up by
05:28someone if you cut Milton or if you cut Howe.
05:32But the thing that bothers me with this is the development that we saw in Oxnard,
05:37the development that we saw in the preseason games,
05:40kind of seems all for naught.
05:42Like, I'm not saying he's the Dak Prescott era parent,
05:45but, man, it was a nice leap from him.
05:49Somebody or himself coached himself up in this offseason to improve to the point
05:56where before the Saints game, we all had him as the two.
06:00The majority of Tolos on the poll question after the Saints game,
06:05when Sam Howe played well, still picked Joe Milton as the number two.
06:09So, why did you get rid of what many people thought was your second-best quarterback
06:14who's young and you would still imagine has room and ceiling to get to?
06:20That's what bothers me.
06:21It's like, all right, you want to go with Sam Howe for the here and now?
06:24Okay.
06:24But what if Joe does get picked up by somebody else?
06:27You just lost out on that development and the gains that he made this offseason
06:32that we all witnessed and saw.
06:34I could see him getting picked up by the Titans, by the Falcons.
06:39You know, there's a number of teams.
06:41Miami, there's a number of teams that...
06:43Why didn't they answer the phone?
06:45Maybe once you get questioned, if you get a call on cut-down day that,
06:50hey, look, we might trade this guy.
06:52He's going to be available anyway?
06:54He's going to be available in 48 hours anyway.
06:56They still squeezed a seventh for Nate Thomas,
06:59and Nate Thomas was a bad football player this summer.
07:02So you're saying that Joe Milne was untradeable?
07:05I'm saying there's some other piece to the puzzle we just don't know yet.
07:09Like, I don't know what it would be,
07:10but there's something out there that teams wanted to stay away from,
07:14or teams knew Dallas was bugged by and knew,
07:17nah, they'll walk away from him.
07:19Like, for every team to potentially look at it and go,
07:22even if we want him, we know they're sour enough on him to walk away
07:25means that he'll be available soon.
07:27There's something super sour behind the scenes about the way that they felt
07:31about him that we didn't know.
07:33Because his play on the field the preseason,
07:36there was nothing wrong with it.
07:37I mean, it was good.
07:38Yeah, he was good.
07:39You know, he showed a lot of improvement.
07:41He showed that he had the tools.
07:43He had the tools when he was a freshman in Michigan.
07:46You know, he just didn't have touch,
07:49and he didn't have a great awareness, game awareness,
07:53processing ability.
07:54It wasn't there.
07:55It seemed to improve, and that's what you're looking for,
07:58and then he seemed to get some touch.
07:59Tolo Frankie, this is baffling.
08:02First big jaw drop for me this cycle with the way that they've been running
08:06things in the offseason, and I agree.
08:08It does not make much sense whatsoever.
08:11Nick Harris, Forward Star Telegram.
08:13I'm chalking up the timing of this to a roster and waiver strategy.
08:17Release him on Sunday.
08:18Okay, this is interesting.
08:20Release him on Sunday.
08:22Much higher chance he gets claimed.
08:24Release him today.
08:26A lot of teams have their quarterback situations figured out,
08:29making it more likely he clears waivers.
08:32This is like in fantasy when you want that player,
08:36but you want him one round later,
08:38and you go and check the teams right around you to say,
08:40did they draft their quarterback?
08:42Can I wait on Dak here?
08:44Can I get to another round?
08:47Have they filled their spot already?
08:49Nick is suggesting maybe the Cowboys just waited 48 hours later so that the other teams
08:55filled spots with their claims or their moves for a QB.
08:58Which there were a couple moves on Sunday.
09:01Kyle McCord got moved to Miami.
09:03I think there was another one somewhere in the AFC where a couple different pieces moved around.
09:09It could be that teams got settled with where they're at.
09:11But I would think anybody who likes Joe...
09:14The fact that Dallas was calling Sunday, though, about it and trying to be part of that settling
09:19makes me think, okay, well, they still wanted something to happen here.
09:23Chuck Cooperstein, voice of the Mavs.
09:25Always about the money.
09:27Follow it.
09:27Brad Sham says no.
09:29This was not about the money.
09:32Not trading him might also mean there were no takers.
09:35They had to clear a spot for the running back.
09:39May have tried to trade him, but people figured, don't give anything.
09:42They're getting ready to release him.
09:44That happens all the time.
09:47So, man, Todd Archer, though.
09:49The Cowboys were on the phone talking to teams and then deciding to go ahead and release him.
09:54Does that mean they bring him back to the practice squad if he clears?
09:57Could.
09:58Could not.
09:59Potentially.
10:00I mean, I don't know.
10:01Because it's one of those things where, you know, everybody seemed to think certainly
10:05Moffa and Blue, if they clear waivers, would be coming back.
10:09And they made it clear yesterday.
10:10No.
10:11Like, I mean, we may not bring you back.
10:13If it got this sour, I can't imagine they...
10:16I don't know why you would want to come to the practice squad if you're Joe Milton and
10:20they settled things this way.
10:22And I don't know why Dallas would want him back if they were that eager to get him off
10:25the roster.
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