Week 10’s biggest Shock: Titans thump Patriots

November 14, 2018 By Editor • Posted in News • No Comments

Tom Brady has had some of the finest football weekends any quarterback could ask for, but while his Week 10 of the 2018-2019 season did have some highlights, it will not go down as one of them.

Why?

The Tennessee Titans made sure of that on Sunday by thumping his strongly-favored New England Patriots 34-10 on their home turf in Nashville.

This after every tipster worth his salt had forecast Patriots to win and the pre-game odds of most New Jersey sportsbook were around 5-4 on the Patriots and 7-2 on the Tennessee home team.

Worse still, after three crunching sackings and some heavy hits, the betting underdogs forced Brady out of his 300^th game for the reigning Super Bowl champions. As a result, ending a long, seven-game streak of Titan defeats to his team.

And it may not have been sheer irony either that Mike Vrabel, who helped mastermind three previous Super Bowl wins by the Patriots, was, in his first game with the Titans, the man occupying the chair of chief coach and strategist for the fired up Tennessee outfit.

Those three sacks were the most to be conceded by the Patriots in any game this season. They caused the New England team’s coach Bill Belichick to call of Brady. Then send on Brian Hoyer halfway through the fourth quarter.

Brady’s 300 games in NFL football is second only to the 326 of Brett Favre and before his departure, the three-time MVP tied Peyton Manning’s all-time NFL record for the most touchdown passes, this with three in a total of 246 yards thrown.

Marcus Mariota finished of Titans’ first two drives with TD passes, and Derrick Henry ran for a pair of TDs while Ryan Succop was adding two field goals as the Titans scored a season-high in points after charging into a stunning 17-3 lead after the first quarter.

The resurgent Titans have now beaten both of last season’s Super Bowl finalists at home after being hammered 13-14 by the Patriots in January.