Vic: Apparently the Arkansas-LSU game didn’t have much of an impact because LSU was able to lose and still play for the national title, in its home state. You’ve just made the perfect pitch for a playoff system: Too much parity exists to arbitrarily select two teams to play for the national title.

Vic: They weren’t practicing in OTA’s, they were practicing in their teams’ mini-camps. Rookies are allowed to practice in mini-camp but not in OTA’s until May 16. Teams must distinguish mini-camp from OTA practices. They are not the same. The Jaguars’ mini-camp will be conducted on June 6-7.

Vic: We’re truly getting out ahead of this story. Yes, I expect him to be moved to safety and, yes, I expect him to play well there, but let’s give this some time. All of a sudden, after just one day of playing at safety in OTA practice, I’m getting questions about what will happen to Gerald Sensabaugh and who will play safety and who will get cut and on and on. That’s way over the top. I think Jack Del Rio said it all on Tuesday: “Brian will be starting somewhere for the Jaguars.” I don’t know how the coach could be blunter. That’s enough for me right now. Let’s give the new defensive backs coach, Donnie Henderson, time to sort through the guys in his secondary before we start assigning roles in sub packages. Don’t forget, folks, we still have to go through the dead zone. Easy, now, easy.

Vic: Ty Law is a five-time Pro-Bowler and two-time All-Pro. In his 13-year career, he’s intercepted 52 passes and returned seven of them for touchdowns, and that’s not counting six postseason interceptions, one of which he returned for a touchdown. His three-interception performance in the 2003 AFC title game is one of the great postseason performances in NFL history, and his interception and touchdown return was the big play of Super Bowl XXXVI. We’re talking about a guy who played at the elite level for a long time and made big plays in big postseason games. If his isn’t a Hall of Fame career, then shut the place down.

Vic: I’m sorry, but I failed to record that information. I’ll improve my reporting skills as we get deeper into OTA’s. If I may, I’ll ask that we not take OTA’s too seriously. We really need to keep this in perspective. We lost perspective on Jason Taylor. We lost perspective on Lito Sheppard. Please, let’s not suffer the same fate in OTA’s. They’re really not that big of a deal.

Vic: It would be easy to say that Arlen Specter wants the truth, but I think it’s more than that. I think he wants the NFL to understand that as part of its arrangement in being granted a limited anti-trust exemption, it agreed to senate oversight. That means don’t destroy evidence. That’s the problem here. The senate can’t perform oversight because the evidence was destroyed. Plus, there’s a fundamental suspicion that accompanies that kind of action; it sounds the alarm. In his press conference on Wednesday, Specter called for a new investigation to re-collect the evidence that was destroyed. That’s all. I think that’s fair. Give the senator the information he needs that would allow him to do his job.

Vic: Nothing succeeds like success, right? Absolutely, but, Margy, another thing we have to do is make the distinction between the NFL and college football. College football has national champs. The NFL has Super Bowl champs.

Vic: Fudge has Jack Del Rio’s blessing. A college degree is a good thing. Players who seek them shouldn’t be punished, they should be rewarded. Hey, these are OTA’s. Exceptions can be made. Training camp, of course, is a different matter. By training camp, all of the other stuff in a player’s life must be in order so he can turn his full attention to one thing and one thing only, football. That’s what Fudge is doing.

Vic: Colby, the second practice of the spring season is scheduled for today. Let me get a couple of weeks under my belt before I answer your question.

Vic: They’re going well but you can still buy one. In fact, I’ll bet the Jaguars will even sell you two.

Vic: It’s growling. What else could you do, give it a gun?

Vic: Walker is not expected to participate in spring practices, as he recovers from knee surgery last fall. There’s no foundation for any kind of expectation right now and there won’t be until he joins practice and begins testing that knee. That isn’t expected to happen until training camp. The Mike Walker questions have to wait until then.

Vic: I would agree that there is a proliferation of irresponsible media in sports journalism today, if you include shock-factor websites, talk shows, etc., among the media. I’m old and I’m new and, frankly, I love the internet. I think it’s the greatest media invention since the printing press, but it’s also an invention that is being horribly abused; much more so than printing presses. The reason is cost. Printing presses are very expensive and usually require the ownership of a responsible company. The internet can be accessed for the cost of a monthly hookup fee, and you don’t have to pass any tests to create a site, nor is there significant regulation. Newspapers belong to newspaper publisher and managing editor associations, and reporters have journalism degrees or their equivalent. Newspapers’ every word is scrutinized and their reputations hang in the balance. I like that kind of accountability, but I’d be lying if I said I don’t enjoy the freedoms I’ve gained at jaguars.com. I try to blend the two. I present my stuff a little more casually on jaguars.com than I did as a newspaper reporter, but I adhere to all of the principles of ethics and responsible reporting that I embraced as a newspaper reporter. I’ll tell you when news happens, but I’m not going to continually tell you about news not happening. That’s one of the things I don’t like about the internet. The interaction between reporter and reader causes websites to be used as though they were telephones. I won’t do that. The Lito Sheppard thing is the perfect example. I’m not going to report every day on the wild rumor that the Jaguars are going to trade for someone. That’s where shock-factor websites and talk shows really hurt themselves. They lose all credibility when they invent stories that don’t exist. People who continue to view those sites and listen to those shows don’t want news, they want shock. They want something to talk about. They want to be entertained, even at the risk of being misinformed. I’m not going to get every story, but I want to make sure I don’t give you a story that turns out to have been bad information. The “Boston Herald’s” recent apology for its walk-through story is a perfect example. How many websites apologize for their reporting mistakes? The rest is up to you. It’s your eyes and your ears. You determine what you see and what you hear. Know where to go for your news. Know who to trust.