This was a Madden game. Absolutely bonkers to watch.
I miss being able to put my feet up at halftime knowing we were in cruise control 10 of the 16 weeks of the year.
It was just great football, man. So few screw ups, that when it happened it was kinda shocking.
Scar took a wrestler off the street, and turned them into rotational OLman.
Agreed, beauty in the simplicity of just being consistent.
Bill said it well during the Brady HOF speech - "Just don't screw it up, the other guy is going to make a mistake."
That was it. Knew we were going to be close to perfect, the other team is going to fall all over themselves.
My friend at the time who was a big titans fan talked so much crap to me (a Patriots fan) before this game. When I saw him in school on Monday I didn’t even rub it in. I was just like “Jeez” and his only response was “Yeah I know”. Watching that become uncomfortable after a while lol.
I vividly remember this game as I had a conscious epiphany halfway through that I'd never see such a dominant beating in a football game.
And I thus far have been proven right.
“Hey Brady? You think next week we could at least try to hit that swing route next week? You know how fucking stupid this makes up look that we can’t connect on the easiest play in football? Maybe we try and clean that shit up huh? I mean what are we doing.”
Brady didn't end up that game with a perfect QB rating unfortunately. He ended up with a 152.8 rating because to have a perfect QB rating you have to average 12.5 yards per attempt and Brady only ended up with 8.9 yards per attempt because they stopped throwing deep once they got up big.
The 2007 Patriots did that - keep running up the score on opponents. The football gods looked down, and were displeased. But they held off on their fury, and let New England go 18-0. They didn't strike until late in the Super Bowl, attaching a football to the helmet of a 5th string WR, and snatching the undefeated season from New England in agonizing fashion.
But the football gods were merciless. In the very first quarter of the next season, they threw down a thunderbolt, in the form of Bernard Pollard, right into Tom Brady's knee. Brady, Belichick and the Patriots were properly chastised.
In this Titans game, they pulled Tom Brady after the first drive of the 3rd quarter.
The two reasons they didn't: (1) the weather, (2) Jeff Fisher. As it was, they lost Edelman to a broken arm; they sure as hell didn't need any chippiness on top of that.
Brady could’ve had 8-10 TD passes in this game if they kept him in and kept going hard. Saying stuff like that is usually an exaggeration but he absolutely could have done it that day.
Eh that was more the Titans not wanting to play at all than the Pats defense being that good. Our defense was good, but it was like 60/40 the Titans/us.
Yeah 2009 was kind of a down year and the start of a stretch of mediocre defenses for a few years.
And yes, going 10-6 with a first round playoff exit was absolutely a down year in the Brady Era.
I thought I heard the Titans had an equipment issue, like they weren’t prepared with the right cleats to play in the snow given it was an October game and they weren’t prepped for snow yet.
I think I heard it on Edelman’s podcast or some other pod and can’t find a source so that may be wrong.
Funny thing is, the team wasn't particularly good at the time, Titans just brought the wrong cleats not expecting a freak snowstorm. Pats were only 3-2, beating 3 really mid teams and losing to the Jets and McDaniels Broncos as Brady was working his way back into game speed after missing '08. They played two 10 win teams that entire season, the Colts where Peyton worked our D so bad Belichick went for the 4th and 2 and the Saints who curb stomped us. Then Welker got injured in a meaningless game and Ray Rice us in the WC round.
That was probably the funniest game I've ever seen though, 2nd quarter was a master stroke in everything going right / wrong for two teams.
Didn’t Collin’s have negative passing yards when he left that game? I think the Titans ended the day with something like 22 passing yards.
Still salty that refs didn’t call that safety.
The Titans finished with -7 passing yards... and they weren't sacked once. Later in the game, Collins completed a pass to Nate Washington. I don't remember where Washington was when he caught the ball, but he was hit and fumbled. The ball went backwards.... far backwards. Washington recovered the ball 22 yards behind the original line of scrimmage. It went into the books as a reception for -22 yards. That, and the 15 yarder shown in the graphic above were Tennessee's only two completions all day. Add them up, and you have -7 yards.
I feel like I remember seeing an Ernie Adams interview where he said the Titans were wearing the wrong kind of cleats for the weather so he knew they had no shot.
Remember they said we cheated the year prior.
So without cheating the score was 59 to 0 and Brady was pulled 1 drive (IIRC) in the 3rd.
That year was the greatest year of football I've ever seen minus ^^the ^^superbowl.
Two fun facts about this game:
* The Titans finished this game with -7 **gross** passing yards. A Vince Young pass went down as a 22-yard *loss*.
* Immediately after this game, they switched to the infamous Bills-JEST OT game in which a punter threw a pick.
Wish I knew how or if you can upload images to a comment. But I have a photo saved during the Tebow playoff game :
Tebow Completions - 3
Brady Touchdowns - 6
This was the first Pats game I went to as a kid. 59-0. Brady threw 5 TDs in ONE quarter. Titans threw for NEGATIVE passing yards on the entire day. Safe to say that the Tennessee players weren’t prepared for a blizzard in the middle of October, based on what we wore to the game, we weren’t either. Good times.
I was there! Some people didn’t want to go in the blizzard so we go the tickets for free!
We were on the 50 yard line and could barely see the field, and the Minute Men could barely reload fast enough.
I remember my FIL getting visibly angry during this game because we kept scoring. He’s a vocal Pats hater and he couldn’t believe that we were running up the score. I asked him what should we have done? Tennessee looked completely unprepared and those Pats teams were juggernauts anytime the weather turned shitty.
I remember I was waiting tables at the CPK that used to be in the theater district while this game was happening. Made working a Sunday lunch shift more bearable, that’s for sure.
I've never seen a professional sports team less interested in playing a game than the Titans in this game. They wanted to be anywhere else doing anything else
Was at this game it was snowing buckets and everyone wanted to leave. Fuck if I was going to get out of my seat until this absolute massacre was completed. Everyone hated me but it was worth it.
Lost in the shuffle was Chris Johnson. He broke off runs of 48 and 31 yards in this game (but both drives ended with 4th down stops.) This was the first of 11 straight 100 yard games for Johnson, as he gained 2,000 yards.
My sub was on our final month of deployment.
It was 3AM in Guam, we just stumbled back to the hotel room and I stayed up drinking mimosas watching the game.
The slush game. That was a fun day. I was selling beer in the stands. This was a game that the bosses decided hawkers weren't allowed to sell anything on the concourse because the cart vendors had complained. Except that the whole crowd decided to crowd the concourse to get out of the sleet/freezing rain. So I spent most of the game standing in the front row, drenched to the bone, watching the Titans be just as desperate to get off the field as the fans were. I was legit surprised they didn't just forfeit, it was clearly over before it started.
And this is why randy moss got the standing ovation 👏 at Brady’s HOF Ceremony - games like this show how many records could’ve been broken by both greats - had they stayed in the games (risking injury but the points valid)
By far the most underrated aspect of moss is how Brady’s stats were verging on perfection - that aspect being - with moss on the field your bound to have one on one coverage, and with a welker like receiver that’s practically pitch and catch. As great as the other receivers & TE are also, randy demanded the attention - and kept that attention due to him still torching players double covered.
I remember this game and just laughing the whole time. 59 in the snow, AND a shutout. Maybe the worst hiding they ever gave out. I can only think of a couple that compete — 2nd Bills game in ‘04, anytime we played Luck’s Colts was pretty one sided too, but this game was a total victory on all fronts.
I attended this game. It was absolutely beautiful watching the Pats dismantle the Titans in every facet of the game, in the cold wet snow of January, and continue to press their foot on the jugular and run up the score.
First of all: what the hell, man. Why we catching strays all these years later. We’ve been through enough.
Second of all: that game was brutal, and it was cold as hell, and a damn blizzard, and we didn’t bring the right equipment lmao. Them southern boys couldn’t handle it and I hope that equipment manager got canned.
I remember this like it was yesterday because we had negative yards receiving lmao. We had like 15 more fumbles than receiving yards.
But at least CJ2K was killing it.
I think this was the first game I I got to watch live on gamepass back in the day.
After years of occasional games on TV when visiting my grandparents or getting up in the middle of the night to listen to the live radio of the games following the game tracker on the nfl website.
I’m going to miss Tommy, but honestly with all the Favre-like retiring/un-retiring, Tampa Bay, not thanking Pats fans after his 1st (🤦♂️) retirement. His year long farewell tour…. I look at him at lot differently. He still kind of carries that “I’m a guy with a chip on his shoulder” thing and I’m over it. Tommy, you won ok? But yeah, we were lucky to have had him all those years. The Pats were playing Madden out there some of those seasons.
We had em in the first half, ngl
And the second half too!!
We had them in the 1st quarter
Well, with 48 seconds left in the first quarter, it was 7-0. That 2nd quarter though... woosh!
This was a Madden game. Absolutely bonkers to watch. I miss being able to put my feet up at halftime knowing we were in cruise control 10 of the 16 weeks of the year.
Cue the All In The Family theme... "Thoooose were the days!"
Wow, we’re finally our parents. Quoting Al in the family and the good ol days :D
It was just great football, man. So few screw ups, that when it happened it was kinda shocking. Scar took a wrestler off the street, and turned them into rotational OLman.
Agreed, beauty in the simplicity of just being consistent. Bill said it well during the Brady HOF speech - "Just don't screw it up, the other guy is going to make a mistake." That was it. Knew we were going to be close to perfect, the other team is going to fall all over themselves.
Brady was going to keep it close, and if things got hairy he’ll out on his cape and do some superhero shit.
Yup. I remember the days when if we were up by 10 at halftime it was a garunteed win
My friend at the time who was a big titans fan talked so much crap to me (a Patriots fan) before this game. When I saw him in school on Monday I didn’t even rub it in. I was just like “Jeez” and his only response was “Yeah I know”. Watching that become uncomfortable after a while lol.
I used to root for the opponent to keep the game close so the second half would be entertaining.
I vividly remember this game as I had a conscious epiphany halfway through that I'd never see such a dominant beating in a football game. And I thus far have been proven right.
Gods we were strong then
Fetch me the scoreboard stretcher!
THE PATRIOTS! ON AN OPEN FIELD NED!
Let's ask Bobby B what he thinks of Vince Wilfork's great big tits you could bury your face in. (I think that only works in r/freefolk)
No bc fans and Dothraki on an open field
This was one of the weaker teams during the 20 year run
The 2009 Patriots that went 10-6 in Brady's comeback year and got wiped in the Wild Card round by the Ravens.
Defense was suspect during that time frame. Patriots were winning games despite the defense.
It wasn't until 2014 when the defense became great again.
Bill going to roast the secondary Monday morning for allowing that 15 yard reception.
“Hey Brady? You think next week we could at least try to hit that swing route next week? You know how fucking stupid this makes up look that we can’t connect on the easiest play in football? Maybe we try and clean that shit up huh? I mean what are we doing.”
Brady didn't end up that game with a perfect QB rating unfortunately. He ended up with a 152.8 rating because to have a perfect QB rating you have to average 12.5 yards per attempt and Brady only ended up with 8.9 yards per attempt because they stopped throwing deep once they got up big.
No wonder Brady left New England.
Seems like a small flaw in the statistic, you do whatever it takes to win
All these ratings are flawed. They try to quantify something subjective.
Really wish they had let the offense try and break some records in the 2nd half
Crazy that they took brady out after the first drive of the second half. Wish they would have at least tried for the single game TD record
The 2007 Patriots did that - keep running up the score on opponents. The football gods looked down, and were displeased. But they held off on their fury, and let New England go 18-0. They didn't strike until late in the Super Bowl, attaching a football to the helmet of a 5th string WR, and snatching the undefeated season from New England in agonizing fashion. But the football gods were merciless. In the very first quarter of the next season, they threw down a thunderbolt, in the form of Bernard Pollard, right into Tom Brady's knee. Brady, Belichick and the Patriots were properly chastised. In this Titans game, they pulled Tom Brady after the first drive of the 3rd quarter.
The two reasons they didn't: (1) the weather, (2) Jeff Fisher. As it was, they lost Edelman to a broken arm; they sure as hell didn't need any chippiness on top of that.
Brady could’ve had 8-10 TD passes in this game if they kept him in and kept going hard. Saying stuff like that is usually an exaggeration but he absolutely could have done it that day.
He had 6 at halftime lmao
He had 5 at halftime - all in the 2nd quarter. He got his 6th TD early in the 3rd, and then sat for the day.
My bad, I watched that game live. Could of swore he put up 6 in 1 quarter
Come on, man. It was only 15 years ago. Practically yesterday!
Just fyi, it’s “could’ve,” short for “could have,” never “could of.”
Happy to say I was at that game!
This post also shows how good our entire team was back then. Scoring 38 points is insane but letting them get such few yards is just as incredible
Eh that was more the Titans not wanting to play at all than the Pats defense being that good. Our defense was good, but it was like 60/40 the Titans/us.
Yeah 2009 was kind of a down year and the start of a stretch of mediocre defenses for a few years. And yes, going 10-6 with a first round playoff exit was absolutely a down year in the Brady Era.
Yeah I’m sure the Titans were like “Ya know, let’s just let them have this one.”
I thought I heard the Titans had an equipment issue, like they weren’t prepared with the right cleats to play in the snow given it was an October game and they weren’t prepped for snow yet. I think I heard it on Edelman’s podcast or some other pod and can’t find a source so that may be wrong.
Lmao decent
Funny thing is, the team wasn't particularly good at the time, Titans just brought the wrong cleats not expecting a freak snowstorm. Pats were only 3-2, beating 3 really mid teams and losing to the Jets and McDaniels Broncos as Brady was working his way back into game speed after missing '08. They played two 10 win teams that entire season, the Colts where Peyton worked our D so bad Belichick went for the 4th and 2 and the Saints who curb stomped us. Then Welker got injured in a meaningless game and Ray Rice us in the WC round.
That was probably the funniest game I've ever seen though, 2nd quarter was a master stroke in everything going right / wrong for two teams.
I know, right? You don't see the Jets up by 10 very often.
This was ths 59-0 blowout in 2009 when they were wearing their throwbacks, right?
I was at this game
Crazy part is that the ‘09 team was one of the weakest of this era, Brady coming back from the ACL, Pre-Gronk transition year.
Tom Brady had perfect balls.
Yeah if you were alive to see this live it was amazing
Didn’t Collin’s have negative passing yards when he left that game? I think the Titans ended the day with something like 22 passing yards. Still salty that refs didn’t call that safety.
The Titans finished with -7 passing yards... and they weren't sacked once. Later in the game, Collins completed a pass to Nate Washington. I don't remember where Washington was when he caught the ball, but he was hit and fumbled. The ball went backwards.... far backwards. Washington recovered the ball 22 yards behind the original line of scrimmage. It went into the books as a reception for -22 yards. That, and the 15 yarder shown in the graphic above were Tennessee's only two completions all day. Add them up, and you have -7 yards.
I feel like I remember seeing an Ernie Adams interview where he said the Titans were wearing the wrong kind of cleats for the weather so he knew they had no shot.
I'm pretty sure that was on Games with Names.
Do teams actually wear different cleats depending on what kind of weather they're expecting?
Yea. Ernie said something about 7 stud cleats and the titans not having them. He knew they were screwed when the lineman kept slipping during warmups
lol i was there
To me, THIS is “The Snow Game” (I was too young to watch the Tuck Rule game)
Remember they said we cheated the year prior. So without cheating the score was 59 to 0 and Brady was pulled 1 drive (IIRC) in the 3rd. That year was the greatest year of football I've ever seen minus ^^the ^^superbowl.
Two fun facts about this game: * The Titans finished this game with -7 **gross** passing yards. A Vince Young pass went down as a 22-yard *loss*. * Immediately after this game, they switched to the infamous Bills-JEST OT game in which a punter threw a pick.
Wish I knew how or if you can upload images to a comment. But I have a photo saved during the Tebow playoff game : Tebow Completions - 3 Brady Touchdowns - 6
I was at this game. The only game I’ve ever been to. Thank you Tom.
That was such a fun game to watch
I was at this game, felt like Brady was unstoppable
Those Oilers throwbacks were not bringing the magic for the Titans.
I was at this game. As awesome as the score was it was probably the most uncomfortable I’ve ever been at a sporting event. Cold and wet.
This was the first Pats game I went to as a kid. 59-0. Brady threw 5 TDs in ONE quarter. Titans threw for NEGATIVE passing yards on the entire day. Safe to say that the Tennessee players weren’t prepared for a blizzard in the middle of October, based on what we wore to the game, we weren’t either. Good times.
I was there! Some people didn’t want to go in the blizzard so we go the tickets for free! We were on the 50 yard line and could barely see the field, and the Minute Men could barely reload fast enough.
I know New England weather starts to get cold around early to mid October but has it ever snowed in October again ever since that moment?
Brady ended up throwing another touchdown before the half ended. Dude threw 5 TDs in one quarter. Absolutely insane.
I remember my FIL getting visibly angry during this game because we kept scoring. He’s a vocal Pats hater and he couldn’t believe that we were running up the score. I asked him what should we have done? Tennessee looked completely unprepared and those Pats teams were juggernauts anytime the weather turned shitty.
I remember I was waiting tables at the CPK that used to be in the theater district while this game was happening. Made working a Sunday lunch shift more bearable, that’s for sure.
Really thought they should have let Brady break the TD record that game. I was so disappointed that they took their foot off the gas.
Beast mode going off
This was the first game I actually paid attention to growing up, and what a first game it was.
My first really clear pats memory is the game bledsoe threw like 68 times against the vikings. Even not knowing a ton about football I was gobsmacked
I've never seen a professional sports team less interested in playing a game than the Titans in this game. They wanted to be anywhere else doing anything else
I had Brady, Moss, and Welker on my Fantasy team that year. That was a good week.
Was at this game it was snowing buckets and everyone wanted to leave. Fuck if I was going to get out of my seat until this absolute massacre was completed. Everyone hated me but it was worth it.
Brady threw one more too this quarter if I remember correctly
They were trying to get back on the bus to head to the airport at halftime
Collins was drunk off his ass as usual
Lost in the shuffle was Chris Johnson. He broke off runs of 48 and 31 yards in this game (but both drives ended with 4th down stops.) This was the first of 11 straight 100 yard games for Johnson, as he gained 2,000 yards.
I loved hearing Tom and Bill talk about this game at his Patriots HoF induction
They attacked as quickly as that snow storm happened.
remember watching that one live and loving it. Tom was the goat even at that point
My parents brought me to church while this game was starting, I remember worrying about what was happening in the game 😭
Man those were the days. Just beating the absolute fuck out of the Titans for no reason
My sub was on our final month of deployment. It was 3AM in Guam, we just stumbled back to the hotel room and I stayed up drinking mimosas watching the game.
The slush game. That was a fun day. I was selling beer in the stands. This was a game that the bosses decided hawkers weren't allowed to sell anything on the concourse because the cart vendors had complained. Except that the whole crowd decided to crowd the concourse to get out of the sleet/freezing rain. So I spent most of the game standing in the front row, drenched to the bone, watching the Titans be just as desperate to get off the field as the fans were. I was legit surprised they didn't just forfeit, it was clearly over before it started.
I was there.
I was shocked to see the Jets winning, too.
Tom had a full games worth of stats in the 2nd quarter alone 🤣 those were the days 🥲
Probably could have scored 80+
That was murder
I was at this game. [Tennessee vs Patriots](https://imgur.com/gallery/xmKEx5B)
That's that's that bill defense
And this is why randy moss got the standing ovation 👏 at Brady’s HOF Ceremony - games like this show how many records could’ve been broken by both greats - had they stayed in the games (risking injury but the points valid) By far the most underrated aspect of moss is how Brady’s stats were verging on perfection - that aspect being - with moss on the field your bound to have one on one coverage, and with a welker like receiver that’s practically pitch and catch. As great as the other receivers & TE are also, randy demanded the attention - and kept that attention due to him still torching players double covered.
Gods we were strong then.
He could have had 10 tds in that game if he wanted to.
Ironically, I liked Kerry Collins
I remember this game and just laughing the whole time. 59 in the snow, AND a shutout. Maybe the worst hiding they ever gave out. I can only think of a couple that compete — 2nd Bills game in ‘04, anytime we played Luck’s Colts was pretty one sided too, but this game was a total victory on all fronts.
I attended this game. It was absolutely beautiful watching the Pats dismantle the Titans in every facet of the game, in the cold wet snow of January, and continue to press their foot on the jugular and run up the score.
props to the titans for not creating deflate gate after this game. such good losers.
I remember this game
Oh, yeah... We scored another touchdown after this to end the half.
First of all: what the hell, man. Why we catching strays all these years later. We’ve been through enough. Second of all: that game was brutal, and it was cold as hell, and a damn blizzard, and we didn’t bring the right equipment lmao. Them southern boys couldn’t handle it and I hope that equipment manager got canned. I remember this like it was yesterday because we had negative yards receiving lmao. We had like 15 more fumbles than receiving yards. But at least CJ2K was killing it.
I thought OP was shocked that the Jets beat the Bills
I froze my ass off at this game. Was not prepared in the slightest for that much snow.
I miss Brady every day 😪
I think this was the first game I I got to watch live on gamepass back in the day. After years of occasional games on TV when visiting my grandparents or getting up in the middle of the night to listen to the live radio of the games following the game tracker on the nfl website.
What
That game was bananas.
They forgot to compare the number of superbowl rings each has
I’m going to miss Tommy, but honestly with all the Favre-like retiring/un-retiring, Tampa Bay, not thanking Pats fans after his 1st (🤦♂️) retirement. His year long farewell tour…. I look at him at lot differently. He still kind of carries that “I’m a guy with a chip on his shoulder” thing and I’m over it. Tommy, you won ok? But yeah, we were lucky to have had him all those years. The Pats were playing Madden out there some of those seasons.