That’s actually a tougher question than most people may think. It was rumored that in training camp Brady outperformed Bledsoe and that Belichick straight up preferred Brady right from camp in 2001 but was pressured to keep Bledsoe in because they just signed him to a 10 year $100 million contract. So it’s possible that if Bledsoe never got hurt and the Pats were 3-5 or 2-6 at the halfway point Belichick might have eventually benched Bledsoe anyway.

Gustavo Fabregas true. he probably wouldn’t of won the SB. but he may have gotten them to the playoffs

@Gustavo Fabregas I mean he did come in during the AFC Championship that year and beat Pittsburgh so I have no doubts he could have done a good job in the playoffs. Whether he could have gotten them there is a different story. But I do think that eventually Belichick might have chucked Brady in at some point, probably for the 2002 or even the 2003 season

I think Brady would of still be the starter anyway in 2001 if the Pats continued to struggle with Bledsoe

Belichick gets fired and Brady goes somewhere else other than New England.

Lol

Word...

and costs many teams in the playoffs and super bowls

Legitimately stopped about 5 dynasties from forming/continuing: Rams Chiefs Seahawks Broncos 49ers

@@thedarkknight9153 how about the eagles with mcnabb and Owen's, the chargers with rivers and possibly the raiders with Gannon

Underrated comment

Tom brady after winning 7 rings: this is my revenge for that hit you bit**

A play that would torture the AFC for the next 2 decades

Plus. He ain't gone yet.

Matthew Dowling any news?

This is the comment i was looking for.

at least the jets got the w

Not just the jets.

NickDaFootballGuy of course it’s the jets

Shaun Ellis screwed it all Edit:and MO Lewis

Except Denver

you have to admit, messing up so bad in a game that it fucks them over for 19 years to come is probably the most jets thing they ever did

Yep of course the heat started it lol😂😂😂😂

Mehoy Minyoy Rumor had it he was having trouble breathing and ended up in critical condition at the hospital after the game at one point.

@@trevorhembrough1290 He had a sheared blood vessel, so every time his heart pumped blood was going into the chest cavity rather than circulating. The team doctor put him in an ambulance and sent him to Mass General. He passed out along the way, and didn't wake up until the next morning, when he had one tube pulling blood out of his chest and another pumping it back in. He came very, very close to dying.

Trevor Hembrough Thats actually true, Bledsoe almost died. That was confirmed in a Super Bowl LI special.

Most people also forget that Bledsoe is only 5 years older than Brady

The turnover saved his life at tge end

I agree.

He's always had that. He was doing it with Michigan too.

@@JustinStrife Oh definitely, but for him to come into a professional game fresh off the bench and nearly do the same thing, man, you can't teach that. It was like a preview of what to come.

Folks, the Jets were playing off the Patriot receivers on that final drive.

@@SmugTomato ur waifu Is from yuru Yuri?

Jimmie Johnson 48 Champion uh, no. Brady would’ve never even gotten out of the pocket there.

True! Lol.

Nobody is complaining

The slowest Qb I've ever seen is Kerry Collins.

@@kevinburke6055 i would say peyton manning

Rest In Peace to the 9/11 victims and God bless the great US military men and women who keep us safe

@@TexasNationalist1836 Yes. And it is not just them that keep us safe. A lot of others do too from bus drivers to teachers to restaurant workers to wall st bankers to others. They're all heroes. People doing their jobs well and professionally are heroes.

@@faniramaNo.

Nah that would be us beating the Bills but losing Rodgers

It's funny you say that cause Marv said the same thing to Kevin in Home Alone 2 and I read your comment in his exact voice lol.

@@nintendostyle3500 yea but let’s be real he was never winning you a super bowl. This game unfurled 20 years of patriot dominance

People also forget, or just don't know, that the only person from the Pats to visit Bledsoe in the hospital was his friend Tom Brady.

Ronnie Bledsoe weren't a half bad ball tosser but he just weren't never the brightest star in the solar shistims

Thank you! I hate when my fellow New Englanders say shit like "Mo Lewis is our all time MVP hurr durr"

Really? It was that bad?

@@brucekentallen Yes it was. Nobody knew it until days later. He tore a blood vessel in his chest and almost bled to death internally.

It was a good Jets team. This was the "You play to win the game" season where they went 10-6 and made the playoffs. Edwards would take his Jets to the playoffs 3 times in his 5 seasons.

Paul Gaither nah that was the next year

@@matthewwalker9205 - They went 10-6 and made the playoffs in 2001, but ypu are right that his speech was 2002, when they also made the playoffs. The main point was the Jets had 3 playoff seasons in 5 years with Edwards and were not a bad team.

From 1998 to 2002 the Jets were 7-3 against the Pats and were 5-0 in Foxboro

Billy Bob yeah I mean I don’t see him winning 6 Super Bowls and if he does his first 2 will be won by Adam Vinatieri, his 3rd one will be won by Rodney Harrison, his 4th one will be won by an undrafted rookie free agent Malcolm Butler, his 5th one will be won by completing the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, and his 6th one will be won by a game winning drive in a low scoring defensive game

Matthew Joseph ... is this the same Vinatieri that misses two fgs in that second sb? And the same brady that threw for 971 yards in two Super Bowls? Threw for four tds and over 300 yards against the lob who was in the second year of their historic defense? The same brady who holds every post season record? Without having the same hof talent that most multiple sb winning qbs have? Those ones right?

7 superbowls now!

and now 7

@@matthewjoseph236 yea, a kicker got them into FG range on those drive. I didn’t know he played QB too. You should’ve been on the receiving end of that hit

winning and at the same time fucking themselves over for the next 19 years is probably the most jets thing the jets ever did

Jets fans punching air rn

Yes, yes he should

@HVAC Quality Assurance pretty much the whole AFC East lmao..hell even the whole NFL 🤷

Mo Lewis is paid by the Patriots. However it's paid in CASH, for reasons the ENTIRE country is aware of. And that "reason" has nothing to do with taxes, if you know what I mean.

I TELL HIM THAT EVERYTIME I TALK TO HIM!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

7 SB later***

Generally you want to do something life-affirming since the sense of loss is over the loss of their ability to go on with their lives so they definitely wanted him to go on with his. To that extent hopefully the game was cathartic. Football is very important to many first responders so they are indirectly enriched by these "meaningless" athletes.

I'm two years late to this comment lol. I could be mistaken, but I think this was before 9/11. Like only days before. This game was Sunday, and 9/11 was the following Tuesday.

@@freeguy2833 this game was on September 23rd

@@thetoptige8014 whoops, I got my games mixed up

A star was born

@@joshxmuhozi a death star if you would

@@knowbody6327 lol

Don’t forget that hit nearly cost Bledsoe his life

The Jets Organization itself is a big Buttfumble.

For simply clean tackling a dumbass that didn't go out of bounds

@@ChrisV267 dude he almost killed bledsoe there was definitely unnecessary roughness

@UC8TVZM_3WH-5FdsgX5tf5Kw it’s a contact sport 💀 just don’t get a pussy

It was because that was too grim of a subject to interview given the national sentiment at the time.

it's all on display here. forcing the ball into coverage, delay of game w/ no clue what shot clock was doing, innacurate throws, crushing picks in the endzone causing eruptions of booing, endless ball patting looking for someone to release downfield while the protection breaks down and everyone blames the O line for being terrible...you forget how bad he really was. And Kraft knew he was the only thing selling tickets and invested like half the cap on his contract -- then the biggest in NFL history. There was absolutely nothing gifted to Tom, there was tremendous pressure on him all season, he had to take control from the first snap. To this day he is known as a "game manager" for those early seasons....there were no superstar weapons. Troy Brown and Kevin Faulk were the greatest weapons on those teams. Try managing games and winning titles on a team where the consensus best player is the kicker. How many other guys are winning on that team? Mahomes? Elway? the answer is nobody. This team was ranked 32 out of 32 going into the season by SI. And somehow the story is Brady just relied on the team to carry him. They didn't carry Drew and he was the highest paid player in the league. If you don't think it helps a defense when the offense is getting first downs and controlling the game and scoring you are a moron.

Yeah didn't realize he stayed in until i watched this. Regardless of how injured he was BB was done with him, it's understandable considering the mistakes he made that veteran qb's shouldn't be making including that brutal endzone pick

@@Heb.2000I bet Mahomes could. He extends plays like a wizard. To say he couldn’t is just stupid. Brady really had nothing to lose considering New England was so bad, so in my opinion that took a ton of pressure off him. It would be different if Brady was the one who got hurt and Bledsoe had to fill in for him. That would be a ton of pressure.

​@@Heb.2000You think a guy that was given a 100 million was really bad? That's a pretty idiotic take. You don't think Brady had bad games?

​@@shawnchristianson324Mahomes has an embarrassment of riches from GM on down. Andy Reid won't be around forever. Tom Brady turned scrubs into border line hall of famers.

It's just a coincidence theory

and the Jets took out drew bledsoe #11 11 resembling the twin towers?? pretty crazy coincidence…

I thank her for her service, god bless.

What you talking about, don't you know that the NFL just pulled the tuck rule out their ass in the divisional round against the Raiders because they wanted the Patriots to win. And that is the only time the tuck rule ever occurred.

@@joshds123_3 This video actually proves you wrong. Many people believe what you say, but it actually isn't quite true. You can tell that that was the rule used in this game because the call had the exact same wording.

@@fluffshepnetwork7067 I know, it was sarcasm, making fun of the people who actually believe it

@@joshds123_3 I'm so sorry about that.

@@fluffshepnetwork7067 nah it's fine haha. I know it can be hard to tell at times through text

That is not strange at all. It could be a fun fact but the word strange has a definition.

@@Onthebrink5 Yeah, a more apt word would be "amazing"

The jets are the reason why the dynasty exsists

you're welcome

And the tuck rule

Your welcome

Can the jets do it again

Kind of *scripted* if you ask me

A bit suspicious also considering the tuck rule that happened

The House that Brady Built

It symbolizes a new era for the Patriots.

kingike25319 underrated

Now it's the bills time to strike back

There's also the Colts. But like energy bending it was separated from the rest.

Bill didn't want to choose Brady, Erick was the one who convinced him to do so.

Actually, there were 5 Bills, Dolphins, Jets, Pats, and Colts. The league realigned after the 2001 season. Since the AFL/NFL merger in 1971, the Colts, Steelers, and Brown's became AFC teams switching conferences. The Colts (Then in Baltimore), joined the East, while the Steelers and Brown's joined the Central initially, and then was renamed the North when. other expansion occurred

I'm here after he announced his retirement. I watched this game for some reason. I wasn't much into football back then, and only loosely kept abreast of the standings. The Patriots were and are my home team, so I've always been a fan; if you can call it that.

that's his index finger

yeah but he took too many sacks and couldnt check down his receivers...decent arm but frustrating to watch honestly...i was defintely over it by the time he got injured.

Then Bledsoe goes to the Cowboys, gets hurt, and paves the way for Tony Romo.

​@@edlawn5481 Yup went to Buffalo for three years then cowboys for two I think.

​@@edlawn5481Then Romo paved the way for Dak!!

That’s scary

He was also monitored constantly so that whatever almost killed him didn't really have time to. It was scary but also testimony to why we have medical crews on standby at games.

Wow he bled soe much

Imagine if the colts never left the AFC east during peyton manning era

Turned into the AFC Easy.

No, it changed the entire NFL

@@thenewjord50 fun fact peyton finished his career 1 game below .500 against the afc least

@@angelenriqu1 Yet for some reason the AFC East has the most wins in the NFL since 2001. Hmmmm...... Maybe you're wrong.

Exactly.

Lmao no u idiots go ahead and look at the tom brady one this one is a good call. The one against my Raiders! He "tucked it" meaning he put the ball between his hips then with no intension to try and throw it! This one he did u can see it. B.s. call against the Raiders

@@skullisland2214 I disagree. His arm was clearly going forward.

@@fluffshepnetwork7067 tom bradys??? Noooo go look back at it

Skull island Stop getting mad over something that happened almost 20 years ago. By the way you’re acting, it seems like you may not have even been alive for that game.

Bill has said he almost made Brady the starter that year because he had a much better camp than Bledsoe.

That team was a thousand times better with Brady, and everyone knew it. The offense was so bad in this game, and the Cincinnati game. Once Brady was entrenched, they started putting up some serious points, and taking care of the ball. Bellichik might have made the change mid-season, had Drew not gotten hurt, but it would have been too late for that season, and I have to believe that 2001 set the stage for Brady’s entire career. When Drew came in against the Steelers in late January, that was a much, much better team than he took the field with in September, thanks to Tom Brady.

I was at that game with my dad I was a freshman in high school haha little did I know walking out distraught that everything was about to change haha

Same here 😎🏈💯

KingsCountyNYC360 found his burner account😂

Enberg is good at letting the game do the talking and adding just enough to spice it up.

RIP Dick Enberg!!!

Yeah, understatement of the century.

Should mention one of those planes flew out of Logan.

If Brady wasnt hurt in 2008 the Steelers probably wouldnt have made the SB lol

@@Tazer183 100% also if Denver hadn't handed Brady his first L in the playoffs Cowher probably wouldn't have an SB either

Now that you mention it

Completely agree... not sure they would’ve beaten Warner’s Rams that year though with Kordell Stewart

@@bobbywood8322They probably wouldn't even make Super Bowl 45 vs GB if the Pats didn't lose to the Jets too.

Or another Patrick Mahomes

SupremeJunk bruh everyone keeps saying that, but...Patrick Mahomes exists

@@colinbarlow6662 Let's see him win multiple rings first.

@@slimischillin7753 Mahomes is better than Brady right now, but Brady's easily #1 all-time. Mahomes will be great, but we'll have to see just how great he'll really be when all is said and done.

Mahomes fans are something else man.

The fastest I ever saw Brady run was that 15 yard(or so) scramble during the comeback against the Falcons. That's how much Adrenalin was pumping through him, he was actually fast

Lol I think that will be a bad taste since Bledsoe nearly died from that hit he's not a bad QB during the 90s even lead the Pat's to their second sb appearance in the 96 season. Not a Bledsoe fan I was too young at the time its like saying let's put a statue of carson wentz getting his leg tored up next to the philly special statue

@@thenewjord50 But if Mo Lewis doesn't hit Bledsoe, Carson Wentz maybe playing for St. Louis and not Philly in this butterfly effect timeline history.

@@Dirtnation2 lol but my point is Bledsoe wasn't a bad quarterback not saying he's on Elway, Montana, Farve, or P.Manning level to me a statue of someone who nearly died from a hit is overboard lol I know its football but idk about the whole butterfly effect universal change

Exactly. I watched this game and thought "the Pats will be OK without Bledsoe because this Brady kid can play."

EXACTLY!

Tom Brady: oh let's deflate the ball so we can win

@@RavenNation96 dude just drop it nobody gives a crap about that deflategate shit anymore

@@RavenNation96 Seek help kid.

Time marks forgetfulness, I had also thought that there was only about 10-20 seconds left when Brady came in and that he had completed only one pass maximum.

Had he stayed as their QB, they would have had another lousy season and Belichick would have been fired for sure.

nagoo81 wdym you’re welcome

nagoo81 if that hit never happened the pats dynasty would have never happened

@@MsKimba18 He meant either you're welcome for the time stamp or he is a Jets fan and that was the hit that took Bledsoe out and started Brady.

Logan Arkels Here’s hoping the NFL never lives through the 2001 season again.

ericradford2142 definitely

Here's to hoping there will be no repeat of 9/11.

Fluffshep Network that too.

the Bledsoe injury is a notch in NY Jets half-century of Failure (That is long overdue for a video LOLCOW is great but that's back then now with more content to look deeper that should last longer than the Toronto Maple Leafs: A Half Century of Failure video.

Kraft didn’t open the checkbook for Martin, if memory serves. It was a natural for him to reunite with Parcells, who gave him his start.