Good pay, and a promise to play.
That’s the sales pitch of a new football league — the XFL — to quarterbacks who sit on NFL benches.
As for which quarterbacks the XFL has in mind, pay attention to what Los Angeles Wildcats offensive coordinator Norm Chow had to say Friday about Chargers backup Cardale Jones:
“You would hope that this league would entice people like Cardale and give them a platform,” Chow said by phone. He also said: “A guy like Cardale would be very valuable in my mind to the XFL.”
Jones, who entered this weekend’s league-wide paring of rosters as the second or third backup to Philip Rivers, will turn 27 next month but over his three NFL seasons has appeared in only one game, as a rookie with Buffalo in 2016.