On Monday, The Athletic tweeted out that Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has thrown 36% of Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman's career touchdowns in 8% of the games.

Aikman fired back with the perfect response on Twitter, saying to "Talk to me when he has 33% of my Super Bowl Titles."

iCYMI: Talk to me when when he has 33% of my Super Bowl Titles https://t.co/Ba8kjPRnDs — Troy Aikman (@TroyAikman) September 24, 2019

Aikman said he stood by his tweet in an interview with The Musers on KTCK 96.7FM/1310AM recently.

"I guess, in a way, I'm 'defending my turf,' if you will. But I'm really not that guy," Aikman said. "I really don't care. But I think that when somebody tweets something like that, it just totally misses the point. It's so naive as to what is happening in the world around us that you just want to point it out.

"I am proud of that tweet, by the way."

In his 12-year career with the Cowboys, Aikman threw for 32,942 yards and 165 touchdowns while winning three Super Bowls. In just 20 games as a starter, Mahomes has thrown for 6,576 yards and 60 touchdowns. He led the Chiefs to the AFC Championship in his first season as a starter last year, but they lost 37-31 to the New England Patriots.

For his career, Aikman has a quarterback rating of 81.6. Through the first three weeks of the season, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott leads the NFL with a rating of 90.4, followed by Mahomes (89.6) and Tom Brady (85.6).

"You can't compare anything that's happening in today's game to any other era," Aikman said. "[Pat Mahomes]'s been phenomenal. Great kid, love everything about him.

"I just don't like when we start trying to look at numbers and saying 'this is why this guy's greater than this particular player, this former player,' whatever it is. It just doesn't make any sense."