Vic: Orlando is a secondary market within the Jaguars’ total market area. Jacksonville is the Jaguars’ primary market, therefore, the correct reference should’ve been “out-of-primary-market” game.

Vic: I hadn’t even thought about it, but you’re right. Oh, poor Jacksonville. It’s gonna get killed that night.

Vic: The stadium seats 66,000-plus, but only about 50,000 of those seats, which is the general bowl seating area, apply to the blackout number. It is one of the smallest blackout numbers in the league, therefore, when people talk about the Jaguars having a stadium that’s bigger than most, blackouts should not be part of that discussion because as the stadium pertains to blackouts, it’s very small. Premium seating, which is to say seating that involves a club license, does not count toward the blackout.

Vic: Eddie, with or without Orlando, empty seats aren’t gonna work. What keeps the team from moving? The answer should be obvious: a sold-out stadium. Nothing else will work long-term. Sellouts work anywhere, anytime.

Vic: I don’t know to what degree Bills fans migrated from Buffalo to Toronto for that game played there last December, but I can tell you from years of having covered Bills games in Buffalo that the road leading from the highway to the stadium in Orchard Park was always full of cars with Ontario license plates. They aren’t all from Toronto. I’d guess that most of them are from just across the border, between Hamilton and Buffalo. Yes, I believe Jaguars fans would make the trek to Orlando to see the Jags play but that wouldn’t be in the intent of playing a game there. The intent would be to help develop the fan base there.

Vic: That’s a question I want to explore later this season, as we near the offseason and the personnel decisions that will be made. I’m getting the feeling a commitment may have been made to the 3-4. I’m getting the feeling GM Gene is on board with this and he’s prepared to effect the changes necessary to make a long-term commitment to the 3-4. As I have said, it’s something an organization has to do if it wants to play the 3-4. It’s a big change. You don’t just change players’ positions, you change players. I’ve always liked the 3-4 because it’s offered a bigger pool of players from which to draft. More teams, however, are making the switch to the 3-4 and that’ll shrink the pool of talent. If that’s the case, the Steelers will make the move to the 4-3. Their main interest in the 3-4 was the pool of talent available. All of a sudden, the 4-3 pool could become greater than the 3-4 pool.

Vic: How about playing the Super Bowl and/or Pro Bowl in that stadium? Would that make it worth it?

Vic: I think it’s time to stop asking what the Jaguars can do to sell tickets. I don’t think there’s anything more that can be done. Tickets are for sale. They are reasonably priced and they’ve been packaged in ways that are so submissive to the fans that it has to be embarrassing to the franchise that it has to do that. The rest is up to the fans. As for your second question, I have never thought of myself as anything other than an ordinary person trying to pay the bills and do for my family what my dad did for his.

Vic: Reggie Nelson will wear pink cleats and gloves, as will David Garrard, Maurice Jones-Drew and Torry Holt.

Vic: I’ve been covering the Jaguars from their inception and that includes two head coaches and I can tell you that Jack Del Rio didn’t do anything Tom Coughlin or any other coach wouldn’t have done. What you don’t know, Stephen, is that Friday’s practice schedule is tailored for players to get home early, relax, do things around the house and spend time with their families. Why is that important? Because they’re going to be gone all weekend. They will report to the stadium on Saturday morning and they will go from there to the hotel, etc. No coach shortens the work day so his players can do radio interviews. Friday afternoon is the concentration line, Stephen. The players cross it when they get within 48 hours of kickoff and coaches want their players to have a singular focus from that point on. It’s been that way forever and every beat guy who covers any team knows this to be true and they know it to be fair. The game plan has been installed and coaches don’t want anything being said that might reveal its contents or the medical condition of a teammate. When we get to Friday afternoon, Stephen, every coach in the league becomes hyper-sensitive. Friday is lock-down. I knew coach Del Rio would get ripped on this thing because America loves nothing more than a good freedom-of-speech argument and this made for an easy target. Coach Del Rio was in a no-win position. Also, it provided another excuse for fans not buying tickets: He wouldn’t let Garrard interact with us. That is such crap.

Vic: The IT guy did it when he was setting up my Twitter account. I asked him this morning why he did it and he said he was testing it. He said he’ll get rid of it. As you can see, you were not correct, but don’t let that stop your rudeness.

Vic: That’s a great idea. It’s on the site.

Vic: I provided a link last week to a column I wrote in Dec. of 2000. I saw storm clouds on the horizon then, but I never thought it would get this bad. My hope is the economy will recover, fans will start buying tickets again and out-of-market games will assist in filling Jacksonville Municipal Stadium again. I don’t see the team leaving, but empty seats won’t protect this franchise. We can deny, deny, deny as long as we want, but we all know that empty seats are bad.

Vic: The Jaguars have moved into their future at left tackle with a player the team has judged to be worthy of the starting job now. Thomas provides insurance at that critical position. You’re right, it’s a young man’s game.

Vic: We may find out in a few years.

Vic: What the Jaguars lose in not having a naming-rights sponsor is minor compared to what the team loses in unsold tickets. Just for this Sunday’s game, the Jaguars will lose more than a million dollars in unsold tickets, and the situation could worsen as the season goes on.