The WINNERS & LOSERS Of The Cowboys Trade For Joe Milton...

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Mauricio Rodriguez talks about the winners and losers of the Joe Milton trade to the Dallas Cowboys.

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00:00So whenever you train an NFL quarterback there are obviously winners and losers to the situation

00:05and we will dive into those off of the Dallas Cowboys trade for Joe Milton earlier in the week.

00:14What's up everyone it's Mauricio Rodriguez here at ADZ Sports Dallas.

00:18Listen we're gonna get into three winners and one loser from the Joe Milton trade to the Cowboys.

00:24The Cowboys traded for Joe Milton on Thursday in case you missed it they gave up a fifth rounder

00:29got a seventh rounder in return so essentially it was only a day three swap in which they got

00:34a quarterback as well which was a pretty good deal and I talked about it more in the previous video.

00:40However now I want to talk about those players who are impacted by the move. Funny story though

00:46I posted this story originally on adzsports.com and in it I had Trey Lance as a loser. Well he's

00:55still a part of the list but I would now categorize him as a winner. The reason why he was

01:00a loser was pretty obvious the Cowboys were one of the likeliest landing spots if you took things

01:06back to the beginning of free agency and I was very very curious about the market for Trey Lance

01:12just because things have not gone very well for the former number three overall pick and with the

01:17Cowboys trading for Joe Milton I thought it only confirmed our suspicion which already existed

01:23that the Cowboys were not going to target him in free agency again. Before I started recording the

01:28video Trey Lance it was announced he's signing with the LA Chargers. It's a one-year deal worth up to

01:35over six million dollars so probably got a very heavy deal in terms of incentives but still a

01:42good deal for Trey Lance I guess he lands in an NFL team. The reason why I changed him to a winner

01:48though is he's going to land with Jim Harbo and I don't know if Jim Harbo is going to crack the

01:53code with Trey Lance but he is among the likeliest coaches that could do it around the NFL. He's

02:00known as a QB guru so I would consider that a major win for Trey Lance and listen after all

02:06it's not Trey Lance's fault that it didn't work out in Dallas I mean maybe to a point of course

02:11but what I'm saying is I know it didn't work out but I still wish him the best honestly in this

02:16new step so good luck in LA Trey. Now let's get to the loser and it's a pretty obvious one Will

02:23Greer before the Joe Milton trade it was still a question mark whether or not the Cowboys were

02:28going to land a quarterback in the 2025 NFL draft. Sure they told us they wanted to Stephen Jones said

02:34it to the media multiple times they were going to target a quarterback but maybe by the time they

02:40were on the clock in the fifth round or the sixth round maybe the value was not going to be there

02:44and in that case the clear front runner to back up Dak Prescott next season was going to be Will

02:50Greer but now that they've acquired Joe Milton I would be very surprised if Greer bids out Joe

02:57Milton now that door is still open especially because Milton is considered to be a low low

03:03floor high ceiling prospect but Greer is also a little bit raw so if I had to guess Joe Milton

03:10is going to bid out Will Greer but in any case even if he doesn't Will Greer now has some

03:16competition to be QB2 in Dallas so he is the natural loser of this transaction. Now two more

03:22winners on the list one of them is obvious the other one is a little bit of an underrated one

03:27the obvious one is well Joe Milton now even though it is obvious let's be very clear here not every

03:33player that is traded is traded to a better situation in this case I think Milton was you

03:39know how it went in New England he was drafted in the same class than Drake May was which was

03:44immediately a bad situation for him because it was always going to be very unlikely for the Patriots

03:50to carry two rookie quarterbacks on their game day roster I think usually the setup that you want

03:56is get a rookie quarterback in there and pair him with a veteran guy or get a veteran guy and pair

04:01him with someone young that you're developing in the background so it was a bad spot for Joe Milton

04:08since the moment that he was drafted in the sixth round that's what I would argue and then they added

04:12Joshua Doves into the mix earlier this offseason and it just felt like it was time for him to leave

04:18he goes to the Cowboys where he is likely going to be that number two behind Dak Prescott so I would

04:24consider him a winner now I'll go one step further and say this because you might have missed it

04:30Jordan Schultz from Fox he reported that Milton actually got to choose where he was headed in

04:35this trade market and even said that the Patriots had received a better offer than one of the Cowboys

04:40had but they still let Milton decide just as a sign of respect to him so yeah Milton is clearly

04:47the biggest winner of this move now the other winner I would say is quarterback coach for the

04:53Cowboys Steve Chinko now many people will be like well why and here's my take Steve Chinko is still

05:01making a name for himself he held several important positions in the past in the NFL

05:06the Seattle Seahawks that he was climbing the lather over at Boston College but he is still

05:12someone young that is making a name for himself at the NFL level and I honestly think he's not

05:19going to be remembered a whole lot by whatever Dak Prescott does in the next couple of years

05:24just because Dak is already established quarterback and he's going to get most of the credit or blame

05:29regardless but if you have a young quarterback and you develop him and you become the guy that

05:35cracks the code of Joe Milton who has so many issues but that if you fix them you're going to

05:41get a star quarterback basically and that's a very very long shot but it could still happen

05:46the fact that Chinko has that opportunity I think makes him a winner because he has a very clear

05:52chance to become a very noticed coach if he manages to make it work I don't think he had

05:57that with Dak Prescott just because again Dak it feels like we already know who Dak is right

06:03he already saw some of his best football in 2023 when he was the front runner to the MVP

06:09we know about his flaws we know about his strengths he is who he is and I don't think Steve Chinko was

06:14going to be remembered by what he did on the field but Milton hey he might be remembered as the guy

06:21that solved Joe Milton we'll see so I will put him as a winner on my list so there you go that's my

06:27list let me know in the comments if you think I missed somebody and I'll see you next week

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