Brian Brohm's first game for the Pack

Brian Brohm saw his first live game action for the Green Bay Packers last night as they hosted the Bengals at Lambeau Field. His first throw as a professional? Interception. As Jason Pugh pointed out, it was eerily similar to watching JB Holmes first hole in the final round of the PGA on Sunday. A total buzzkill. But he persevered and finshed the game 8/17 for 70 yards and that one interception. His long pass of the night was 22 yard pass to another rookie, Jordy Nelson from Kansas State. Packers coach Mike McCarthy has some good things to say about the former Trinity Shamrock and Sports Illustrated cover boy...

I would think it's a starting point for both of our rookies. We knew coming into the preseason that we had a lot of work to do there. There are going to be things, and I just know from my vantage point, that Brian did some really good things in the game. And we'll build off of that. He was in a bad spot there on his first play of the game on the interception. The route progression wasn't what it was supposed to be and that's something where you have to have the discipline to move on to the next receiver. He will definitely learn from that situation. But once again, the productivity was there. Was it clean? No, it wasn't clean, but there's a number of factors going on. We'll get that cleaned up and I think it was a very good solid first step for the whole quarterback position.

McCarthy on the back- up quarterback role...

We played one game. There's competition throughout our whole football team. We'll make sure every position is ready to go with more depth than we've ever had here as a football team. The quarterback position has obviously changed. Experience is not the strength like it has been here in the past. Like I said, we have a lot of work to do.

I think Brohm looked poised and relaxed after his first series but still tried to fit the ball into some spots that just weren't there. He was also the unfortunate recipient of some dropped balls deep down field. Here is Brohm after the game...take a watch. His clip is about midway down on the right.