Titanic failure as Brady shreds Tennessee

By tvnz.co.nz's John Whiting

Published: 1:41PM Monday October 19, 2009 Source: ONE Sport

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New England quarterback Tom Brady threw a record five touchdowns in one quarter during one of the most one-sided NFL games in history on Monday.

The snow of their home ground in Boston didn't slow the passing game with the Patriots ahead 42-0 at halftime against the Tennessee Titans. They went on to win 59-0.

Tennessee's usually solid defence was ripped to shreds by Brady who threw a phenomenal 380 yards and six touchdowns in one half of football. Five of those came in the second quarter.

He didn't even have to play in the second half with coach Bill Belichick opting to have mercy on the hapless Titans.

Brady's favourite targets for the day were Wes Welker (150 yards and two touchdowns) and Randy Moss (129 yards and three touchdowns).

And as if the Titans' defence wasn't bad enough, their offence couldn't produce anything either.

In fact their two quarterbacks combined for a joint total of -7 yards for the entire game - and yes that negative is not a mistake.

Kerry Collins played the majority of the game and finished up with career-worst stats of 2/12 pass attempts for -7 yards and one interception.

Vince Young came in late but was no better, picked off on his first pass. He had one more attempt - you guessed it, an incompletion.

While the Patriots have certainly sparked their intentions for the season, the Titans droop to a horrible record of zero wins, six losses.

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