Jayden Daniels didn’t hide his reaction the first time he got a front-row look at Patrick Mahomes doing Patrick Mahomes things.
During the Washington Commanders’ late-October trip to Kansas City last year, the game was still hanging in the balance after a first half that ended tied 7-7. Washington had entered the matchup trying to get back to .500 after losses to the Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys, and for a while, it looked like they might keep things tight.
Then the Chiefs took over.
Kansas City blanked the Commanders in the second half, and Mahomes carved them up with three touchdown passes - one each to Kareem Hunt, Travis Kelce and Rashee Rice. Hunt had already piled up six rushing touchdowns in the first quarter, and the Commanders were left chasing a game that had slipped away fast.
On Season 3 of Netflix’s “Quarterback,” Daniels is heard watching the unraveling from the sideline and sounding like a fan who can’t quite believe what he’s seeing.
"How do you find that? He just made up some s***!"
Daniels later put the admiration into words in an interview segment.
"I appreciate great QB play. It's an art. Patrick Mahomes is good at football."
The episode also gives a look at Daniels’ unusual setup off the field. He doesn’t have a traditional agent; instead, he’s represented by his mother, Regina Jackson.
Daniels explained what that means to him in the same episode:
“Role number one, she plays my mom. From there, she’s my business manager, and then also she is a certified NFL agent.
I’ve seen her be a manager at a lot of different companies and manage money. So what better person to help you manage your money, and that’s somebody you can trust, than your mom.”
His publicist, Denise White, also appears in the episode and talks about Jackson becoming a certified NFLPA agent.
“For her, taking the agent’s test is because she wants to be knowledgeable and helping her son and guiding him through his NFL career. It’s important for her to have all that knowledge so she can give her son guidance, which will help him focus on the field, and she can help him focus off the field.”
All eight episodes of “Quarterback” are available on Netflix. The series also features Joe Burrow, Joe Flacco and Cam Ward.
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