OMC: So when did you stop being Jeff and Greg's little brother and they became Brian's brothers?

BB: Probably a couple years ago, probably when we won the Orange Bowl. They started becoming my brothers.

OMC: This has to be the first time you haven't been coached by at least one family member since what, Pop Warner?

BB: It's probably the first time since before high school that I haven't had a relative on the staff, so to speak. But you're always getting coached by other coaches and other people. It'll be nice to get a fresh look at things and hear it from a different perspective.

OMC: Mike McCarthy's got a pretty good track record coaching quarterbacks, including what he did with Brett Favre in 1999 as his QB coach and in 2006 and '07 as his head coach. What are your initial impressions of his coaching style with quarterbacks?

BB: I'm just trying to soak in everything Coach has to offer as fast as I possibly can, because there's so much information. I'm just trying to soak in as much as possible.

OMC: Have the coaches tried to tinker with your mechanics or footwork at all?

BB: Yeah, he's just trying to teach the mechanics how they're supposed to be done and tweak a few things here and there. I'm sure there'll be more things as we go along.

OMC: So the other night, I'm flipping channels and I come across, not ESPN Classic, but ESPN U, which is replaying the Louisville-West Virginia game from '06. You guys are at home, and you go 19-for-26 for 354 yards or something astronomical like that. Huge win. I stayed up and watched the whole thing.

BB: That was one of the bigger games of my career. We were fifth in the nation, they were third, it was a Thursday night game, at home. We had a "Black Out" at U of L, everyone wore black in the stadium. It was a big game, and it was a game where, I hurt my thumb the third game of the year, came back probably a little too early. I came back really to get ready for that game. And proved that it was worth it.

OMC: Things went so well that season -- Louisville wins the Orange Bowl, you win MVP of the game -- did you feel some sort of responsibility to come back to school for your senior year because of your family ties to Louisville? Otherwise, why wouldn't you come out after such a great junior season? You'd have been a top 10, top 15 pick, and you were really on top of your game at that point.

BB: I really felt I wanted to come back. I loved the University of Louisville, I wanted to have my senior year. You only get one chance to do that. I wanted to go through that and try to accomplish even more goals -- which obviously we didn't accomplish. But that was my mind frame going into it.

OMC: Did you go through the advisory council to tell you where you'd be drafted if you came out?

BB: Yeah, I did that. They told me second round. But I think they tell everybody that. They told (2007 No. 1 overall pick) JaMarcus Russell that, too, I think. They give you the worst case. They don't give you where the best case is. But I wanted to come back.

OMC: Yeah, but (USC's) Matt Leinart did the same thing after winning the Heisman and instead of going No. 1 overall he went 10th the next year. Do you regret anything about coming back? Do you think about what might've been?

BB: No. I feel like I made the right choice. I feel like I'm better as a player right now than I was a year ago at this time. I feel like I'm definitely ready to take this next step, whereas last year I wasn't so sure if I was ready to fully take the next step. So I think I made the right choice.

OMC: When scouts said you were the most NFL-ready of the QBs in the draft, what did you make of that? Do you feel that way, that you'd be ready to play right away if need be?

BB: Yeah, I feel like I'm NFL-ready. I can't speak for the other guys out there, so I don't know if I'm the "most" NFL-ready, but I feel like I'm ready for this challenge. I know it's going to be a process where I have to work hard and really get in my playbook and try to learn it as fast as I can. We'll see how quick I can pick everything up. But hopefully I can do it pretty fast and I can get in there where I'm not thinking as much and just playing as fast as I can.

OMC: At the rookie orientation camp, you could sense that some of the other guys who haven't been in the spotlight as much as you were in college -- Jordy Nelson, Patrick Lee, etc. -- having a little more of a wide-eyed awe-factor to them. You didn't seem to. Is that the advantage of being a three-year starter at a top-10 program?

BB: Yeah, it's experience. I've had a lot of experience dealing with different situations -- being the starter, being the guy people want to talk to. Being the guy for three years, I think that's helped me a lot.

OMC: It sounds like Aaron Rodgers has been pretty accepting of you and Matt Flynn. Even though the team has made it clear that it's his job, you can't go into this with any attitude other than competing to be the guy, can you?

BB: Obviously Aaron Rodgers is the starter right now. I'm going to work as hard as I can, and hopefully show the coaches something they like. At this point in time, they've made it pretty clear. (But) for me, I'm preparing as if I'm going to be playing. I think that's the way every player needs to look at it. You have to prepare as if you're going to be on the field, you're going to be the guy playing. And if I am, or if I'm not, I need to be ready to do that. I need to be able to prove in the preseason and then in the camps that I can go out there and do that and prove that to the coaches. That's my mindset coming into this camp.

OMC: How much of a risk is it to go with three young guys at quarterback in Rodgers, you and Flynn, do you think?

BB: Hopefully not a lot. Hopefully we can go out there and prove that we understand the offense, that we can move the team down the field. That's my goal, to prove that if I get on that field, we're not going to miss a beat. We're going to execute the offense and go right down the field. That's really what I need to strive to do, to prove to these coaches I can do that.

OMC: Would you have liked to have played with Brett Favre, or do you figure you wouldn't be here if he hadn't retired?

BB: I guess it goes both ways. It would be cool, just growing up a huge fan (of Favre), to be able to learn from a vet like that, a Hall of Fame quarterback. That would've been pretty awesome. But if he doesn't retire, then maybe I don't get drafted (by Green Bay). So, it's kind of a double-edged sword there.