Colts quarterback Daniel Jones has plenty of history with the Mannings.

Enough to joke around with Peyton and Eli on ESPN’s “The Manningcast” on Monday night, making his appearance in the second quarter of Monday night’s game between the Lions and Ravens.

Naturally a little more reserved than the Mannings, Jones took a couple of opportunities to rib both of the legendary quarterbacks, although he threw a few more jokes at Eli, his favorite player when Jones was a kid and the quarterback he was drafted to replace in New York.

Peyton introduced a clip of Jones playing “Flip Cup” with Eli after an early win over Washington, asking Jones if his mentor was cheating in the popular drinking game.

“He’s a thousand-percent cheating,” Jones said. “You asked what advice Peyton gave me on Indy, this is the advice Eli gave me on being in New York. And yeah, I mean, he was cheating the whole time. I was wondering how I kept losing. I had just finished college, I’m losing to this 40-year-old.”

The three quarterbacks had a relationship that dated back before the Giants drafted Jones.

Jones played for David Cutcliffe at Duke, the same coach who served as Peyton’s position coach at Tennessee and Eli’s head coach at Ole Miss. A picture of the three quarterbacks training together was shown on screen, along with a video of Peyton and Eli in a meeting with Cutcliffe, whose voice was overshadowed by Eli eating a bag of chips.

“Just no regard for anyone else in the meeting,” Jones quipped.

Eli responded by poking a little fun at Jones, saying the young quarterback would never answer any questions about what Jones was doing outside of the building.

“I was grinding, Eli,” Jones said. “It was a lot of movie quotes, and I’m not a big movie guy.”

Eli joked that he assigned 80’s-era comedies to Jones as part of his film study.

The two legendary quarterbacks like to poke a little fun back and forth at each other, bringing up a picture of Jones mobbed by a scrum at his locker while Eli got dressed, crushed in a locker behind the scrum of reporters focused on Jones.

Jones laughed at that, and he also lobbed a few jokes about Eli’s preparation for the Manningcast —“No shot” Eli’s watching a kicker’s pregame warmups — and a pair of tights he wore in the session at Duke, calling them Eli’s “swag” tights.

But Jones made sure to throw at least one joke Peyton’s way.

The three quarterbacks were talking about how they like to operate the two-minute drill, and Peyton said he preferred not to huddle during the two-minute, instead getting up to the line, calling a play and snapping it on his own time.

“Is that because you were calling the plays when you were on the ball?” Jones joked. “Is that why you liked to do that?”

Peyton fired back a little bit, pointing out that the floating head of Jones that Eli picked looked awfully young, saying Jones looked like he was 7 years old in the picture.

Eli, of course, cracked back that he picks all of the pictures they use on the broadcast.

Jones called Peyton when he signed with Indianapolis, looking for advice on the city. Peyton told Jones to play golf at Carmel’s Crooked Stick Golf Club, eat at St. Elmo’s and gave Jones advice on the team’s long-time personnel, everybody from the Irsay family to equipment personnel who caught a few stray jokes from Peyton in the process.

For the most part, Jones avoided getting too in-depth on the plays Shane Steichen is calling in Indianapolis, but his comfort with the Mannings was evident as he made his appearance on ESPN’s “The Manningcast.”

Jones loved the Mannings long before he was ever drafted into the NFL to be Eli’s teammate or signed with Peyton’s first NFL team.

The broadcast showed a picture of Jones’s childhood bedroom at home, a room that had walls adorned with a Peyton poster on his brother’s side of the room and an Eli poster on Jones’s side, plus a famous photo of Jones wearing an Eli jersey as a 10-year-old.

Jones joked that the room still looks the same way today, that it looked like they’d taken the picture that morning.

A little bit of fun for a quarterback who’s been all business through most of his time in Indianapolis.

Joel A. Erickson covers the Colts all season. Get more coverage on IndyStarTV and with the Colts Insider newsletter.

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