One was the Week 1 whooping in Buffalo, duh. You might remember that the Patriots lost TWO (2) games in the entire 2003 season. Patrick Ramsey! What else can you say?! I don't care if you are the team historian for the Patriots Hall of Fame. Patrick Ramsey Patrick Ramsey throws a pass against the Patriots in 2003. The man who preceded Brady at Michigan benefited from the fact that Belichick's teams have rarely ever played well in Denver. One came against the eventual Super Bowl champs in 2001. the Patriots in 2001 (Photo by Jim Gund/Allsport/Getty Images)īrian Griese won 45 games as an NFL starting quarterback. What the heck?īrian Griese Brian Griese vs. Almost 11 percent of his career win total as a QB came against the Belichick-coached Patriots. Brady was just 12-for-24 for 86 yards, taking four sacks in what was a rough reality check for the second-year QB.įiedler - who beat the 2000 Patriots twice - actually got another win vs. Jay threw for a scintillating 87 yards (with 1 TD and 1 INT) in that game as Lamar Smith ran for 144 yards. The opposing QB when Tom Brady lost his first NFL game was none other than Jay Fiedler. Really, Miami quarterbacks shouldn't count. the Patriots in 2001 (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)Īgain, Miami mysteries. We kind of waited for the old Tannehill to show up on that January night in Foxboro. Though he gathered some regular-season wins as Miami's QB, we mostly chalked that up to the strange voodoo that placed a hex on the Patriots when playing in Miami.

And not necessarily all that random, considering Tennessee Tannehill is actually pretty good. (Photo by Kathryn Riley/Getty Images)Īgain, not a forgotten one.

Ryan Tannehill Ryan Tannehill, after the Titans beat the Patriots in the 2019 playoffs. Bill Belichick isn't going to lose a Super Bowl to Nick Foles! What are you nuts?! But Foles kind of has to be the gold standard for this discussion. Nick Foles Nick Foles scores a touchdown in Super Bowl LII. It'll instead be a collection of names that hopefully inspires you to double-check the box scores, because you can't actually believe it. It also will be light on QBs who were in the AFC East for a long time and won a game or two by default. This won't include losses to Hall of Famers, or All-Pros, or anyone that you could reasonably see beating the Patriots. A bunch of quarterbacks that you wouldn't really expect to have a notch on their belt for beating the Patriots during their real reign of excellence from 2001-18. That got me thinking: If I had no recollection of a relatively recent instance of what I would consider to be a surprising quarterback to have beaten the Patriots, then who else am I forgetting? And who else are other people forgetting? (Cutler was 0-3 with four touchdowns and five interceptions in the previous three games vs. Alas! In this, his fourth and final time facing the Patriots, Cutler earned his victory vs. Had you asked me earlier on Tuesday if Jay Cutler had ever beaten the Patriots, I wouldn't have hesitated to say 'of course not' before embodying the smokin' Jay Cutler meme and peacing out.

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