He’d Go Deep Only on Depth Chart

Jacksonville Jaguar rookie receiver Matt Jones, who caught five passes for 117 yards in a 30-3 victory over the Baltimore Ravens Sunday, was a quarterback at Arkansas. Tennessee’s Drew Bennett, who was a backup quarterback at UCLA, also has made a successful transition to receiver.

Sean Salisbury, former NFL and USC quarterback, said on ESPN radio that having played quarterback gave a receiver advantages.

“You have a quarterback’s point of view,” Salisbury said. “Now if I had ever been a wide receiver, it may have taken me 45 minutes to get to the right spot, but I would have known where it was.”

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Trivia time: What did former USC quarterback Paul McDonald have in common with Arnold Tucker, Army’s quarterback in the mid-1940s?

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A great feeling: Lou Holtz, on ESPN, said that for a coach, it’s exciting to beat your former team, as South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier did against Florida on Saturday. “It’s like getting a hole in one,” Holtz said. “It’s like winning the national championship. It’s like your mother-in-law forgetting your address.”

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Showing his true colors: Chicago White Sox fan George Lopez, after wearing his No. 56 Mark Buehrle jersey on his ABC sitcom last week, e-mailed the Chicago Tribune’s Mike Downey to say: “The ratings showed I was No. 1 in Chicago ... and dead last in Boston. Coincidence?”

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Very serious: Regarding Keyshawn Johnson’s ranting on his satellite radio show about agent Drew Rosenhaus, reader Bill Littlejohn wondered if John McEnroe weighed in with this: “You cannot be Sirius!”

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The bottom line: The Minnesota Vikings’ new organizational code of conduct, inspired by last month’s so-called Love Boat scandal on Lake Minnetonka, will be more than 100 pages long by the time it’s finished, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.

Added Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Some players, though, say they’ll wait for the watered-down version.”

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Looking back: On this day in 1960, the Lakers’ Elgin Baylor scored 71 points in a 123-108 victory over the New York Knicks. Only Wilt Chamberlain and David Thompson have scored more points in an NBA game. Chamberlain, with a high of 100, did it five times, and Thompson once, scoring 73 for Denver against Detroit in 1978. David Robinson of San Antonio also once scored 71, in 1994 against the Clippers.

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Trivia answer: Each handed off to two Heisman Trophy winners in the same backfield -- McDonald to Charles White and Marcus Allen, Tucker to Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard.

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And finally: Magic Johnson, asked by ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith to assess the feud between Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal, said: “You’ve got blame on both sides. But, if I’m Kobe, I would have deferred to Shaq because I deferred to Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar]. You always want to keep your big man happy.

“That’s my golden rule because I know, in the playoffs, I’ve got to ride the big man.”

Larry Stewart can be reached at larry.stewart@latimes.com.