Chances are pretty good that Brian Brohm heard you loud and clear.

But as thousands of fed-up fans of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were urging head coach Mike O'Shea to insert third stringer Robert Marve as things got out of hand, Brohm did his best to block that out — just like he always does in good times and bad.

“I'm just focused on that next play when I'm out there,” said Brohm, who finished 16-of-28 for 146 yards, with no touchdowns and two interceptions that were returned for touchdowns in the 52-26 loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Thursday. “If it's good cheers, bad cheers, whatever it is, my mindset is get the next play, try to execute it as well as I can and from there move on to the next play.”

With the status of Drew Willy unknown and the next update on the availability of the starting pivot not happening until Monday, that won't stop the speculation about who should be behind centre Dominic Picard when the Blue Bombers host the Montreal Alouettes on Friday night at Investors Group Field.

Should Brohm get the call, he'll be ready.

“Absolutely. I'm going to watch the film, make it my mission to get better, learn from my mistakes and hopefully have a better showing the next time I'm out there,” said Brohm.

Seeing Willy go down on the thundering helmet-to-helmet hit from Ticats defensive end Adrian Tracy was tough to watch, but when you're the backup quarterback, you can't spend much time thinking about how the chance to get on the field occurs.

“It's a physical league. Football's a physical game. Injuries can happen at any time. That's why everyone needs to prepare like you're going to play,” said Brohm. “You never know when that opportunity's going to present itself. For me, that opportunity came, unfortunately, when Drew went down. I need to be better. I'm going to make it my goal to learn from my mistakes.”

While many folks would fear going into the film room after getting blown out, Brohm knows it's an important part of what's required for him to take the next step.

“There's going to be a lot of things I can learn from and get better at. I'm just looking forward to watching this film and making those corrections,” said Brohm, who was asked if there were some positives he could take from the outing, despite the lopsided defeat. “There probably were. Right now when you have the big loss, it's hard to think about them. But I'm sure there are some good things, as well as some bad things. All the quarterbacks in the room, we try to learn each week from whoever is in there, playing, what you can do better, how you can see things better.

“So I just need to play cleaner football. Can't turn the ball over, that's the No. 1 thing.”

The loss of Willy seemed to deflate the Blue Bombers on Thursday, though they weren't using the injury as a crutch the other night.

“You hate to see anybody go down like that. Brohm is the next guy to come in. He stepped up and played pretty well. That's all you can ask for,” said Blue Bombers receiver Nick Moore, who led his team with six catches for 79 yards. “We have to be resilient. Whether it's Drew, whether it's anybody — the next guy has to step up. We still have to play our same game. I don't think that was the problem.”

Blue Bombers defensive end Zach Anderson agreed.

“Drew going down, it's hard to see that, but we stand behind the coaches' decisions of the next quarterbacks that are up and brought here,” said Anderson. “It was just big plays that we couldn't come back from.”

— with files from Kirk Penton, Paul Friesen

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