As a bizarre slate of games–one where all the good, capable teams were playing each other as the curious, questionable teams were doing the same–was beginning to unfold, the I-coulda-swore-they-were-dead-last-week New England Patriots were blowing out the winless Tennessee Titans. As the snow fell, so did six touchdown passes fall from the hand of Tom Brady, including five in one quarter, which is obviously an NFL record or else there would be no fun in bringing that up.

“I’m disappointed and embarrassed,” Tennessee coach Jeff Fisher said. “Fortunately for me, career-wise, I have never been through anything like this before and, unfortunately, it happened tonight. I can assure you one thing, it’s not going to happen again.”

The Titans couldn’t even stop New England when Brian Hoyer(notes), a free agent rookie from Michigan State, took over for Brady on the second series of the third quarter with the score 52-0. He completed 9 of 11 passes for 52 yards in his pro debut and scored on a 1-yard run on his first series. via.

So now everyone is left to wonder why Bill Belichick stuck his foot so far up Jeff Fisher’s ass. I’m more concerned about how Tennessee–a division champ from a year ago–can’t seem to win a game, or even now show up for one. Brady was benched in the third after going 29-of-34, and it’s ridiculous to think that any sort of decorum would force Belichick to make that move sooner. Tennessee snowed itself in here. And it will be up to them over the next 11 weeks to find a way to dig themselves out.