Blaine Gabbert: Does Starting Rookie QB Really Solve Jags' Problems?

Blaine Gabbert will start for the Jacksonville Jaguars when they face the Carolina Cams on Sunday in Charlotte, in the stadium they might soon start calling the Cam-pound.

Do you think Jack Del Rio really had to think long and hard about this one?

"I guess the immediate next question is, what are you gonna do going forward, and my answer is, we'll address that as a staff," Del Rio said after watching the greatness that is Luke McCown play three quarters last Sunday (if you want to call it playing).

McCown, whose name appropriately rhymes with McClown, went out and completed 6-of-19 passes for 59 yards and threw four of them to the other team.

Wow, almost as many interceptions as completions. You think it was a hard decision in that "staff meeting?"

Imagine, if you will, Jack Del Rio posing the question:

"Who's in favor of giving McCown another shot?"

Imagine the offensive staff throwing empty water bottles, cans and stale donuts at his Del Rio-ness.

Imagine Del Rio simply declaring, "Well, that decides that."

Oh, did we mention McCown's 1.8 quarterback rating? No, we didn't miss the decimal; it wasn't 18—it was ONE POINT EIGHT.

Has to be the lowest passer rating in the history of passer ratings. McCown's reaction? "I've got to do better."

Really?

So basically, Del Rio finally discovered what the Tampa Bay Buccaneers knew when they let McCown battle it out with the venerable Byron "Fat Albert" Leftwich a couple of summers ago in training camp. Not only did McCown lose to Leftwich, he ended up getting cut.

Common sense makes you wonder why you've got a guy you took 10th overall in the NFL draft and you're starting this McClown—er, sorry, McCown guy?

Well, by the third quarter last week, soon after McClown threw his fourth pick, you figure Del Rio finally had a Homer Simpson moment.

D'oh!

"Better try Gabbert, we're paying him a small fortune, he can't do any worse," is probably what creased the crevices of Del Rio's cranium.

Hey, what a novel idea. Let's play our No. 1 pick from the draft!

Now this startling revelation:

On Wednesday morning, Del Rio met with McCown and Gabbert and told them Gabbert would start against the Carolina Cams.

Shocking. Especially when you consider Gabbert came in and completed 5-of-6 for 52 yards last Sunday after McCown had already spread poop all over the field.

So back to the Jacksonville dilemma.

Will Gabbert starting really solve the Jags' problems?

Well, it will solve one big one.

McClown.