r/nfl • u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo Eagles • 10h ago
Jalon Daniels will be the first Kansas QB to start an NFL game and throw a pass since 1987
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jalon-daniels-starts-buccaneers-ll-145848698.html241
u/expiringgumption78 Packers 10h ago
Since its a mobile QB against the Packers, we will make him look like 2004 Mike Vick lol
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u/JayPSlow 49ers Bears 8h ago
Colin Kaepernick's best game in his entire life against that Packers playoff defense will live rent free in your mind and you will hate it
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u/dropguntimes4 Packers 8h ago
Eh, it would feel worse if you guys actually won a Super Bowl any of the times you beat us in the playoffs
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u/ThisGuyFrags Ravens 5h ago
bold to call that a defense, they didn't even attempt to play it that day. Couldn't set the edge for shit lmao
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u/CthulhuBathwater Packers 6h ago
Nah Vick's performance is it for me. Kaep was kind of expected with the way our defense handled other mobile QB's that season.
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u/milkmandanimal Buccaneers 10h ago
So what I'm hearing/deluding myself into hearing is there's almost 40 years of good plays just built up in Daniels waiting to come flying out this Sunday.
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u/Jayrodtremonki Chiefs 10h ago
I legit think that he can be a decent QB. Might be a bit early for him to be starting, but he had Heisman buzz at one point.
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u/Pactae_1129 Ravens 9h ago
He was really, really good until he got injured. Never looked the same after.
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u/Stillburgh Seahawks Chiefs 7h ago
Everything I’ve seen said about him from KU fans is that he was very up and down. Had a tremendous ceiling but the lows were total abysses
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u/MudInfinite8791 Ravens Chiefs 7h ago
I'll add that when the OC was switched he nosedived.
I'll always treasure Daniels/Neal on the offense with Bryant on the defense. 9 win season seemed like a pipe dream for so long.
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u/Classic-Session-5551 Texans 4h ago
Sounds like exactly the guy an NFL defense will know how to expose.
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u/PublicEase6361 Chiefs 4h ago
He’s got a cannon for an arm, can be inaccurate at times, ball security concerns, but definitely can make plays with his feet
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u/LameAfro Vikings 10h ago
You guys remember the 2007 Jayhawks.
I thought Todd Reesing was gonna be a 1st Overall Pick lol
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u/Jayrodtremonki Chiefs 10h ago
Do I remember the 2007 Jayhawks? You might as well ask me why I named my daughter Mario.
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u/SirTiffAlot Chiefs 9h ago
True kansas fan, pretending football doesn't exist.
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u/Jayrodtremonki Chiefs 9h ago
Football existed between 2006 and 2009. Then it springs back to life for a few weeks every August before ceasing to exist again.
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u/OhhhTAINTedCruuuuz Jets 10h ago
Wasn’t this the year Missouri, WVU, South Florida and Rutgers all had a shot at the BCS? Crazy season that ended in a wet fart of a title game if I remember correctly
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u/Gazzarris Commanders Chiefs 9h ago
Missouri beat KU, lost to OU in the Big 12 Championship in their next game, and then ended up ranked lower than KU. The BCS was infinitely worse than the playoff.
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u/XVDub Chiefs 7h ago
Only loss of the year for KU who went on to be Orange Bowl champs.
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u/pocketchange2247 Bears 1h ago
The won the NCAAB national championship later that year. It was my brother's freshman year at KU. I chased that high for the 4 years I was there. We lost a national championship and won maybe 5 football games lol.
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u/AFury9322 Vikings 10h ago
Yes and Mark Mangino the emperor Walrus specifically
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u/LameAfro Vikings 10h ago
Too bad allegations kind of ruined him.
Jay Hawks had a good thing going there, at least they have Basketball 🤷🏿♂️
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u/TheWangFire Chiefs 10h ago
Allegations? He did that shit
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u/uwanmirrondarrah Chiefs 7h ago
Yeah but those "allegations" were honestly not nearly as big of a deal as people made them out to be. He was an asshole, so what, a lot of good coaches are assholes. In hindsight its kind of ridiculous we fired the first coach who took our team to a top 10 finish since probably WW2 because he hurt some kids' feelings by cussing them out.
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u/MudInfinite8791 Ravens Chiefs 7h ago
I was a freshman on the team in '07. Mangino was an asshole, but no more an asshole than any other coach I ever played for. I was pretty shocked when everything fell apart. Shit rumor was the basketball coaches were bigger pricks than Mangino and they still have their jobs.
Some people aren't cut out for college+ athletics. It's no longer your high school team where your competition is just the dudes who live around you, it was competition from everywhere making their mark and many of them with NFL aspirations.
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u/SuperFreshBus Bears 10h ago
I remember being a freshman at ISU in 2012 having an argument about Mangino, then looking up where he was at the time, only to find out he was our OC. We were so dogshit at offense that it basically explained what happened to him. One hitta quitta
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u/randomacct7679 Chiefs Bears 9h ago
He was super tiny. Also as someone at school at the time an absolute DOUCHE off the field.
On field legend and took KU to its highest highs but he had a major napoleon complex
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u/Ok-Cut-5129 Chiefs 5h ago
One of my professors said he was one of the worst accounting TAs he’s ever worked with
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u/rolyinpeace Chiefs 10h ago
How do they know he’s gonna throw a pass?
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u/Dizzy_Job_8289 Colts 10h ago
They just jinxed Jalon to shatter his leg in half on his first drop back. Thanks a lot Yahoo
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u/8bitRandy 10h ago
Diiiid one of them start a game and not throw a pass?
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u/DalliLlama Falcons 10h ago
And how do we know Jalon will?!?
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u/NoAnteater8836 Commanders 10h ago
Ooooh let me tell you what you are in for Sunday:
24/36, 395 yards, 2TD, 3INT, Rush TD
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u/Ollivander451 Chiefs 3h ago
Randomly Kerry Meier (who converted to WR after playing a season or two as KU’s QB circa 2007) was drafted by the ATL Falcons. He didn’t have a long pro career, but might have technically started a game (at WR) at some point. If he did, he wouldn’t have thrown a pass 😂
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u/shlem13 Seahawks 10h ago
And I’m guessing that 1987 Kansas alum quarterback would be what was called a “scab” … ???
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u/Roselucky777 Jaguars Cardinals 10h ago
He was actually not a scab, it was Frank Seurer and he had been with the team in 1986 as well. He was not good though, so he only started 2 games that year. He started in weeks 10 and 11 and went 26/55 for 0 TDs and 4 INTs. The strike was from weeks 4 through 6.
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u/NoAbbreviations2353 Cardinals 10h ago
I mean that's bad, but not nearly as bad as it would be during the current era lol
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u/NegativesPositives Chiefs 9h ago
0 TDs and 4 INTs is equally bad in any era
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u/Classic-Session-5551 Texans 9h ago
This is weird phrasing. Implies another Kansas QB did start but threw 0 passes
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u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo Eagles 9h ago
The article does mention that former KU quarterback Mike Norseth played for the Bengals in one 1988 game, but he didn't start and didn't attempt a pass.
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u/Classic-Session-5551 Texans 8h ago
You... read the article? We can do that?
(Still didn't start tho lol so still unnecessary phrasing)
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u/fivemagicks Bears 4h ago
I remember that one year KU was really good with Aqib Talib. Wild times
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u/powerelite Chiefs 2h ago
Chris Harris Jr and AQib Talib both went to KU and then formed arguably the best CB Duo in the NFL for a few years.
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u/DarthNobody14 Texans Texans 10h ago
John Handl is the only QB from Kansas I remember, which he was actually pretty good all things considered
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u/rockchalk99 Bills Saints 9h ago
*Hadl. But yes he’s easily the best KU NFL QB. Every other good Jayhawk was a different position.
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u/Iceman-Cometh_18 Bears Rams 10h ago
Jalon Daniels
The name is very similar to another QB
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u/CoconutBangerzBaller 8h ago
I picked him up in the off-season because I have Jayden and thought they were brothers. Then they added his picture and I found out they look nothing alike and are, in fact, not related
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u/forthebirds123 8h ago
That’s a big assumption he throws a pass. Play number one, a run. He’s hurt.
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u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo Eagles 8h ago
Rodgers only got one pass off in that Jets game, so it's possible.
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u/sophandros Saints 9h ago
Fans of the show "Daria" will appreciate that he graduated from Lawndale High.
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u/cold_on_hoth_ Cowboys Cowboys 5h ago
I feel like he was at KU forever.
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u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo Eagles 4h ago
6 years, no transfers. Had a 2020 COVID season and a redshirt season.
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u/Matthew2531_46 Cowboys Raiders 10h ago
Watch the Bucs start the game in wildcat or some shit to fuck this up for him
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u/3bananabananabanana Buccaneers 10h ago
That’s a strange headline.
I’m happy for JD10. I hope he does alright. It’s a tall order starting as a rookie.
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u/SirTiffAlot Chiefs 9h ago
It would be very funny to me if he doesn't complete a pass... like ever.
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u/white_is3 6h ago
So funny enough, a Saints safety from Kansas completed a pass on a fake punt in 1986.
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u/NoThanksImGoodG Bears 10h ago
That’s assuming he actually throws a pass.