Things to consider while thinking the Titans throwback uniforms should be changed to the Washington Generals:

*There’s nothing more comforting in the world than knowing the “What’s wrong with Brady?” complaining is about to be replaced by “Why are they running up the score?” complaining.

*Good news for the rapidly expanding Brady Panic Industry. This was such a complete and utter collapse of your markets that you now qualify for a federal bailout. (Congratulations to everyone at 98.5 The Hub.)

*A jerk of the knee to Jamie C. for pointing out that Steve McNair actually had more passing yards than Kerry Collins and Vince Young combined.

*Even when he was everybody’s Flavor of the Month in his rookie year, I never bought into the Vince Young phenomenon. The most overrated aspect of pro football is a quarterback who can “win a game with his legs.” That said, I never thought I’d see the day that VY would come into a game down by 9 TD’s and puke like Falcon Heene.

*When Bum Phillips was coaching the Oilers, he once said that a good coach “is someone that can take his’n and beat your’n, then take your’n and beat his’n.” Well today we found out that a great coach (Belichick) is someone who can face a very good coach (Fisher), and beat the your’n out of him.

*The downside of doing this article every week is that while everyone else gets to flip over to Family Guy, I have to sit through 59 point blowouts so I can do things like judge coaches’ handshakes. And just so you know, Belichick bared his teeth like the dominant alpha male while Fisher pulled his ears back, lowered his eyes and maintained a submissive posture. So all was as it should be. You’re welcome.

*Like I said, Fisher can coach tackle football. But even without the mullet, even with his team being beaten like Bad Newz Kennels runner-ups, he’s got this look about him like he should be leaning on a 1987 IROC cranking Def Lep out the T-top.

*I’m a big believer in the theory that no one is irreplaceable. But if I were a Titans fan (and the Good Lord willing that won’t happen any time soon) I’d probably be feeling right now that Albert Haynesworth was… irreplaced, if you will. I mean, Tony Brown is ai-ight. A capable pro. But Haynesworth was like having the Sagamore rotary in the middle of your defense, redirecting ballcarriers into other traffic. And now it’s just a straight shot over the bridge onto Rte. 3.

*I can’t say enough about good things about Sebastian Vollmer. Kyle Vanden Bosch is as technically sound as any edge rusher in the league. His standard move is to line up wide and at an angle, then try to get to a spot behind and just outside of the tackle. If he beats the tackle to the spot, he’ll use his left hand to stiff arm him to the inside and rush to the outside. If he catches the tackle leaning, he’ll push him outside and take an inside route. So I figured Sea Bass was good for at least one or two rookie hiccups, but there wasn’t one. He bounced out, showed quick feet, got his hands up, his arms extended and never once got caught off balance. He’s just an amazing physical specimen, like the result of some Josef Mengele program to breed a master race of perfect offensive linemen.

*And Sea Bass can run block. On Laurence Maroney’s long TD run, Logan Mankins kicked Brown to the outside and Vollmer swung around him into the left A gap and blew Keith Bullock 5 yards back. I don’t think Bullock even got to see LoMo until he was already by him and uncatchable. Amazing.

*It was a great day all around by the O-line. The Kevin Faulk screen pass TD was as good as any they’ve ever ran. Mankins let Brown through, but when he saw he had a shot at catching Faulk, came back and pancaked Brown. Stephen Neal sealed off Stephen Tulloch to the outside, and Dan Koppen, who was out in front, had nothing to do but accept Tennessee’s sword and have them sign the surrender treaty.

*In this week’s Phil Simms “Phil-osophy” segment he said that you need to tackle Chris Johnson. Brilliant. Funny though, I always took Simms as more of a Cartesian Dualist.

*More good news: Stephen Gostkowski had enough kickoffs to qualify for frequent flyer miles.

*Remarkably the Patriots spun a shutout playing their basic, vanilla, 3-4 with mostly Cover-2 in the secondary. We can only surmise the switch to Darius Butler and Jonathan Wilhite at corner was to get a little quicker and more athletic to take away the routes to the flat that slowly bled them dry last week. Denver ran more Hitch than Showtime and this week the young corners were playing more press coverage and jumping those routes.

*And for the “you’ve got to get after the QB” crowd, those cliche-addicted TV guys who think it’s all about “not letting him sit back there and pick you apart” and “it’s all about applying pressure” and who pleasure themselves to Rex Ryan game tapes… I’d be shocked to learn the Pats blitzed more than 3 or 4 times all game. And had negative passing yards for the game. Apply that.

*This week’s Tony Kornheiser Memorial Lame Attempt Quip: “Gee Jaws, Kerry Collins has fought harder than Joan Collins! [forced laughter] But seriously…”

*I love polar bears as much as I love any of God’s creatures. But you’re going to have to try harder to convince me my Ford Contour is killing them when they’ve got a habitat in Foxboro, MA in mid October. Maybe we ought to just fly them in and play the rest of the Pats schedule in the warm, melty climes of Point Barrows.

*I can’t believe I managed to sit through the whole game knowing I had the opening to figure skating season sitting on my DVR from earlier in the day. I really do suffer for my art.

*CBS showed like one quick shot of a cheerleader who was wearing devil’s horns. This weather didn’t waste their Halloween costume game, did it? They don’t have another home game until Nov. 8th. But they’ll have a do over right? I mean, it’s not too late. Fox never shows Tree House of Horror until the World Series is over and we don’t complain. Again, these are the kinds of things you think about when you’re watching a 9 score game.

*Maybe Maroney is just a cold weather runner, the way Antoine Smith used to fail the conditioning run every summer but be stronger than everyone else at the end of the year. Because Maroney had no problem with the footing, didn’t dance or do that hop-step thing while looking for a cutback hole. And when there was nothing there he bulled ahead, kept his feet churning and moved the pile. Maybe “3 yards and a cloud of slush” is just his style.

*It was ingenious the way Randy Moss took all those running plays off earlier in the year so that once defenses started ignoring him, the Pats could hit him on a fleaflicker. It was your classic long con, and the Titans went for it like Doyle Lonnegan.

*On Moss’ 2nd TD, I half expected he’d get flagged for using the mascot as a prop. I’m sure Roger Goodell is looking into it as we speak.

*As incredible as Brady’s 5 TD’s in a quarter are, the fact that he threw them into the wind, at the open end of the stadium toward the Bug Zapper (TM, Knee Jerk Reactions), makes it even more impressive. If they accounted for the wind like they do in track, they’d pro rate to about 7.25 TD’s.

*If you weren’t around at the end, you missed the absolute most blatant Mercy Rule call in NFL history. The Pats hauled Vince Young down in the end zone and the refs ruled his forward progress was stopped at the 2. Sure, if by “forward progress was stopped” they mean, he was sprinting backwards with three Patriots in pursuit. It was like saying in WWII, France’s forward progress was stopped at the Maginot Line. Whatever. But the 1,000 or so people still in the stands booed because they wanted to find out if the left digit on the Gillette scoreboard can make a “6″ and I admire their spirit.

*Given that the weather was unfit for human habitation, the Gillette crowd gets a free pass this week. But next time the place is that quiet, the team ought to consider mic-ing up the crowds inside the luxury suites and piping the noise out into the stadium.

*Every Star Fleet officer has to take the Kobayashi Maru test. It’s a no-win scenario, and the only one to ever pass it was a recruit named James T. Kirk. He did so by reprogramming the simulator. When you can’t win, you change the rules. So when Belichick was faced with a sputtering offense that’s not in sync and can’t get on the same page, playing on a slick track in a blizzard, he threw conventional wisdom away, aired it out and it worked perfectly. And that’s what makes him the finest captain in the fleet.

*Keep checking the skies for a giant mylar balloon with Adalius Thomas and Joey Galloway in it.