BRIAN BROHM GETTING SOME FACE, OR WORD, TIME ON PACKER BLOGS

Both Cheesehead TV and Ol' Bag of Donuts have posted about Brian Brohm over the past couple of days, and Adam over at OBOD does a great job trying to look into Ted Thompson's thought process behind choosing Brohm in last years second round. CTV links to Adam's post, but gives a bit of their own insight as well.

Going into the 2008 draft I thought that Aaron Rodgers had a good chance of being a solid NFL quarterback, but with only one game of experience, I was nowhere near confident enough to rest the full future of the Green Bay Packers on his shoulders. When Ted Thompson took Brohm in the second round, I was ecstatic. Just a year earlier, if he had left Louisville after his junior season, he was being considered as a top 10 pick in the draft. Here are his stat lines from his three years as the primary starter for the Cardinals:

Sophomore: 68.8 completion percentage, 2,883 yards, 19 TD 5 INT - missed 2 games, injury
Junior: 63.4 completion percentage, 3,049 yards, 16 TD 5 INT - missed 3 games, injury
Senior: 65.1 completion percentage, 4,024, 30 TD 12 INT

Yes, Brohm struggled during the 2008 preseason, and that caused him to lose out the number two QB position to Matt Flynn. But as CTV points out, "Brohm was in with a bunch of second and third level guys against a lot of number ones, while Flynn was in against scrubs almost exclusively." I find it hard to believe that a player like Brohm, who was always considered a great NFL quarterback prospect in college, with the tools and size (6'4", 228) that he has, showed his true abilities last season. Although his teams' success tailed off after coach Bobby Petrino left Louisville, what Brohm himself did in his senior season under a new head coach was quite remarkable. With all-do-respect to Matt Flynn, I expect Brohm to come prepared to camp in '09 and win back the number 2 QB position.