From Penton in today's Winnipeg Sun:

It appears Brian Brohm is in the running to be the most popular man in Manitoba, also known as the Bombers’ backup quarterback.

The 28-year-old from Louisville, Ky., has moved past Max Hall on Winnipeg’s depth chart and is now running the second team offence behind starter Drew Willy. Brohm had a better pre-season game than Hall on Saturday night, and he’s looking much more comfortable in offensive co-ordinator Marcel Bellefeuille’s offence than he did at the beginning of camp.

“I feel like things are coming along well,” Brohm said today after practice. “I feel good about where I’m at. I still have a lot of improvements to make, but I do feel good about the progress I’ve made so far. I’m just going to keep my head down and keep working hard.”

Brohm has had a wild football ride over the years to Winnipeg, including an appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a Grade 11 student, a star-studded career at his hometown university, a couple of failed NFL stints and a stop in the now-defunct United Football League for which he’s not sure if he’s been completely paid.

So he definitely knows better than to assume something will happen. Now he waits for something to happen before he believes it.

“You can only control what you can control,” he said. “I’ve learned that throughout the process. It’s just a waste of time to worry about what else is going on out there, what might happen. Just focus on what you have in front of you, the practice ahead of you, the game ahead of you, and let everything else work itself out.”

Brohm, whom the Bombers acquired from Hamilton for a conditional draft pick earlier this year, comes from a sporting family that is well known in the Louisville era. His older brothers, Jeff and Greg, and his dad, Oscar, all played for the Cardinals, and his mom and sister were multi-sport athletes as well.

As a result, Brohm knows nothing else than to play football for as long as he can. It’s ingrained in his soul.

“I want to play as long as I can,” he said. “As long as this body holds up and as long as there’s a coaching staff and a front office that will let me play, I want to keep on playing.”

It was t just that one game. Everything I've ever seen from him is bad, with the exception of the last preseason game.

 

 

Brohm was terrible in the NFL, especially while he was on the Packers' roster.

I saw him in the preseason of his rookie year and he looked worse than a rookie quarterback should. Since then, I've had an interest in his development and can't say that I've seen a whole there.

It'll be interesting to see how well he does in the CFL, but I'm not getting my hopes up prematurely.

 

Kerwin Bell is the NFL's historical QB Rating leader.  5 for 5, 75 yards, 1 TD, 158.3 QB Rating.  

 

In the CFL, Kerwin's claim to fame is spiking the ball and sacking himself.  

 

Small sample sizes from the NFL mean little in the CFL.

 

 

I don't know what the final was in that game but giving up a TD was worth it for the years of entertainment value that spike has provide and knowing Bell got a penalty for it to boot.

 

 

I remember being mad at the time that we allowed that TD but I do laugh pretty much every time I see that replay.... years of entertainment is understating how great that was!

 

In the CFL, Kerwin's claim to fame is spiking the ball and sacking himself. 

Kerwin Bell had a pretty good season for the argos before we got him.... The problem with Bell isn't that he was a terrible qb it's that Khari Jones blew the doors off as his backup and people preferred Jones so much that Bell started to get taken down in order to elevate Jones (completely unnecessary but that's the Bomber way)

 

I remember that Monday night game in Chicago with Burris playing. Didn't he set a record for qb futility in the NFL that night? Brutal doesn't do it justice to describe how badly he played that night.

I totally remember that too. I don't think there was a TD in that game for either team.

 

Amazing Burris went on & has had a great CFL career. But that game killed his NFL chances forever. What a spotlight... ABC MNF to play badly like that.