How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? … to me, Daniel’s brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more or less every week. Howie Long once gave a great explanation of what it was like to get beat by quarterback legend Joe Montana. He said it was like getting knocked out in a pillow fight. You never felt the blow. And you were all kinds of mad afterward. That’s as good as any description of Daniel. … So what does Daniel do? Something right. On every play. In chess, grandmasters will tell you that it’s the most innocuous-looking moves that are deadliest.