Tommy Maddox Leads the Steelers to a DOMINANT Win Over the Ravens (2003)

[@td7523]

Man every time Plaxico Burress caught a ball my dad would scream "the Plex man!!!!" God I miss those days and I miss him Rip dad🙏🙏

[@johnvillella1087]

Love this!

[@td7523]

Omg Thank you so much❣️❣️❣️ You have no idea how much that just made my day!!! I'm literally sitting here in tears in shock!! From a complete stranger to another God bless you!❤️❤️❤️🥲🥲

[@zacharyvalloric9076]

Rip to your father my pappy called him plexiglass lol not disrespectful intent he just could get it right lol so many great memories our Steelers have given us ❤️

[@ooo_Kim_Chi_ooo]

Tommy is such a great story. From 1st rounder, to cast away, to XFL Champion/MVP, back to the NFL as a backup, to record breaking starter, then with grace becoming a mentor to one of the greatest QB's in the 2000's, and finally ending with a Super Bowl Championship.

[@ItzYinzburgh]

Very well said. He got a ton of undeserved grief during his time in Pittsburgh. I think fans are much more appreciative in hindsight, even though, that seems to always be the case.

[@elliegonzales8212]

You forget the part where he went into Cowher's office whining and crying that he was promised to be the starter after Ben came in for Tommy and lit it up and was named starter...and the rest is history. Yup....though in dudes defense he had struggled from team to team then selling insurance, to the XFL then picked up by the Steelers and he thought he had finally made it only to have the rug pulled out from under him because of the incredible talent of Big Ben.

[@uofksteel]

Love some Famous Amos! Great video as always!

[@ItzYinzburgh]

Thank you so much!

[@uofksteel]

@@ItzYinzburgh You're Welcome!

[@tacey01]

He was a beast at WVU for sure.

[@CZECHMATE650]

I love these "Forgotten" videos!

[@Burgher1605]

Me too. The convolution of Steelers games watched in my life has many games like these hard to remember. KZbin is a great tool for humanity. But it’s direction is steered by its users. Thanks YinzBurgh for contributing value and beautiful nostalgia. Hahaha. Who ride!?!??!?

[@Lundahlium]

Maddox is huge.

[@Waldenpunk]

Two years later they were Super Bowl Champs...🖤💛

[@supercook49]

yeah but not with maddox as a starter

[@NemesisOkoye]

We lost some games that year we should have won. I had us at 10-6. But I love what they said about Polamalu. Little did they know they would be talking about him for the next decade!

[@NemesisOkoye]

@Lexy Thomas true. I still am! I bet I'm not the only one!

[@TheSteelers4190]

Injuries hurt us up front that year. Gildon falling off a bit didn't help the defense either......which in turn hurt the back in that was in transition on the back end

[@windog551]

I remember when they played Atlanta when they had mike vick. I left a bar at half time the Steelers were up 27-3. I got home the game was tied. Vick was a special player.

[@keithclark7266]

@Eric Winslow • That was 2002 and Pittsburgh finished with their 2nd tied game since the 1970 merger 34-34

[@tacey01]

Loads of physical god-given talent. The non-physical part? Not quite so much.

[@ThorMaximus]

And the Steelers pass defense was abysmal. That was in 2002 and kept them from a bye week

[@OmarHernandez-cf1en]

I was there at the stadium! Was my first time in Pittsburgh

[@romantorres777]

Did you party hardy?

[@jasonmooreplease120]

With all the elite linebackers we've had over the years, I feel James Farrior has lowkey been overlooked. Guys like Ham and Lambert stole the show early, guys like Porter and Harrison were the half-time show, and now Bush and Watt are the closers. I guess it's easy to forget about Farrior beings we didn't draft him, but he was a very crucial piece to the center of that linebacking unit.

[@nickgangone9541]

The development and culture of the Steelers seems to give linebackers, not only the spotlight, but the tools and coaching to thrive.

[@luketigue6971]

I still remember watching this game thinking this team was gonna on a real run. Little did i know the Tim Lewis defense, injuries, and inconsistency on offense would doom this season. And after all of that they drafted a hall of fame qb. So it ended up working out.

[@georgecoull1883]

Great job again for using other people and mixing thing's up I love it 💪

[@ArmedNDangerous]

😂😂😂

[@georgecoull1883]

@@ArmedNDangerous what's so funny the fact that a person gets complimented instead of hating on someone? If your from Pittsburgh show some fkn CLASS

[@ArmedNDangerous]

George Coull #Steeler4Life# screaming all the way from Chicago born & raised too #SteelerGang#

[@georgecoull1883]

@@ArmedNDangerous gang gang

[@ArmedNDangerous]

George Coull Yes Sir!! I tell people all the time we are 2-2 in the SuperBowl in my 38 years of living I wasn’t around for the steel curtain era no disrespect to Mr Bradshaw I’m just saying, we are 2-2 in my day and I’m thankful for those two replica SuperBowl rings I have

[@funzjag]

Tommy Gun , the man with an XFL Ring and a Super Bowl Ring.

[@NeverTalkToCops1]

Maddox on XFL sideline on his own teamate: He can't kick it that far!

[@killalltogepis9916]

He sure as hell doesn't deserve that Super Bowl ring though. He almost cost Steelers the playoffs in 2005 with his terrible performances against Jacksonville and Baltimore.

[@bigjuice7020]

Ya I been watching ur football highlights. Keep up the good work!

[@rickm2573]

That's a Superbowl defense getting cut to ribbons, my heart is full. 😁😁

[@rickm2573]

@@JW0143 There's a video where Suggs says we should be thanking them because they knocked out Maddox, he's kinda not wrong. LOL!

[@mcflywalker83]

I love Tommy Gun 🏈

[@keithclark7266]

Opening Day 2003. Steelers 34 Ravens 15. Pittsburgh loss 10 of the final 15 games due to Injuries and poor play and finish 6-10. This was Pittsburgh's last losing season.

[@bobnellis375]

It's kinda mind-blowing that the Steelers have not had a losing season since 2003 --- not even the Cheatriots can say that !!

[@ledontetaylor1272]

@@bobnellis375 facts they played hard ever since that losing season and learned from it as well

[@tacey01]

This team was built to dominate and be champions. Took another year or two but most of the pieces were in place.

[@kassieraine110]

LOL He thought Brent Alexander got that INT at first...and I was like 'He's running pretty slow for a DB'. (97 at glance looked like 27)

[@tomd3741]

Tommy 🔫 threw such a nice ball...he really got screwed

[@lovemaddenstephanieramirez7255]

I always say if Tommy Maddox didnt get hurt i think we could of gone to the Super bowl in 2004.

[@ArmedNDangerous]

Wow really?

[@lovemaddenstephanieramirez7255]

@@ArmedNDangerous put maddox in the AFC Championship game against Patriots and the way rookie Ben was playing didnt ben have 2 ints in the first quarter? Rookie ben vs vet maddox. Ill take my chance with the vet. If ben could ride the defense so could maddox

[@ArmedNDangerous]

Stephanie Ramirez wow!! I disagree, but we all have rights to our opinion #SteelerGang#

[@tannerboyle6610]

Stephanie Ramirez u forget “rookie Ben” went 13-0 and was light years better then Maddox. Maddox had one good season for a reason once defensive coordinators had tape his weaknesses got exposed. Stick to softball lady

[@lovemaddenstephanieramirez7255]

@@ArmedNDangerous dont get me wrong Maddox couldn't go 13-0 lead his team to 15-1 record into the playoffs... But i do think he could of gone 10-6 11-5 make playoffs member Maddox should of gone to a AFC Championship game but the refs fucked us over on that roughing the kicker in the division round in 2002

[@waynehenson1094]

Maddox was pretty damn good.

[@NotRiansLuke]

Omg, blast from the past. I remember this game. Troy Polamalu is coming along, but he's got a tough name for an announcer. Anyone know how that Pola-whatever guy worked out? I heard he ended up being half decent. ;) Love how you left that in. Finally subscribed, that was the clincher.

[@PENS68]

Plaxico Burress owned Chris McAllister during the time he played in this Steelers-Ravens rivalry.

[@Truetoo102]

Tommy was a great QB, wish he could of had a longer tenure in Pittsburgh.

[@Zachary-it7uq]

The good old insurance salesmen.

[@Price70]

Maddox was a darn good starter but after the 2003 6-10 season we took advantage of the high draft pick and took Ben. The makeshift O line of 03 is why they struggled so mad due to injuries. Maddox was so good that Cowher didn't want a QB in 04 but an O Lineman but the Rooneys knew Maddox was probably a bit flukey or his days were numbered and insisted we take a franchise QB. After he got hurt and Ben took over in week 2 of 04 he was done. You can also see in his appearances in 05 how is arm had lost it's zip. Rooney's were vindicated

[@glove8888]

Remember watching Tommy when he first came back thinking holy crap we have a QB who can actually throw

[@sonsofliberty3081]

Plex, 6'5 226, 4.6 40yd, Bryant 6'5 220 4.4 40yd, claypool 6'5 240 4.4 40yd. See where I'm going here.

[@steelerspittsburgh875]

I'm hoping you are correct. That would be awesome

[@Bricks56]

His passes are wobbly

[@ryanmarshall4332]

And then we go 5-10 the rest of year. Thank God we did. No Ben otherwise.

[@ericadams1849]

Tommy went to my daughter's high school, L.D. BELL

[@charlieyellowstone8248]

That 2003 season turned out to be a big big disappointment for the steelers. But it got them to draft in a higher position and they got big Ben and the rest is history

[@omars__volta]

That opening day was a dream, we thought that would be a great season, we had no idea of the disaster that came after that

[@dogpd3]

The Steelers started 2-1 that year and went 4-7 afterwards

[@davidgalinat4257]

Yeah, ended up being a terrible season, but it lead to us drafting Big Ben. The decades long QB issue was finally solved.

[@JahWontPayTheBill]

Now Ben is gone and we’re back to changing QBs every few years.

[@jnyfumare]

TOMMY GUN!

[@georgetesten102]

#43 did end up getting a little bit better! How about HOF awesome!!!

[@jessesarmiento1433]

Everything went down hill after this game. Steelers finished 6-10 this season. They drafted Roethlisberger in the first round the following season. Won super bowl two seasons after.

[@Ryno_757]

Hopefully Claypool and Smith-Schuster grow to allow Ben and especially his successor run an offense like this (a la Burress, Ward). Strong supporting receivers, big and athletic tight ends, and a RB committee though w a prevailing #1 back. Early '00s showed the template. Why can't we have a fast offense to go w our fast defense???? FB Watt can help make a difference as Kreider did with a speed offense. Rosie Nix just couldn't stay healthy, slowed and changed the dynamic of the O.

[@danthomas9170]

Ed Reed was one of the best to ever do it but not on this day. He was out of position all game long.

[@beernutjr]

Just think how great Maddox could have been, if he did not get drafted by Denver, who had Elway, and got drafted by a QB head coach! He got bad breaks but did not give up!

[@Riverside05]

Tommy gun!!! Got his jersey as a hand-me-down😂

[@PENS68]

This was as good as the 2003 season got for the Steelers. The only other decent game they played was a week 16game against the Chargers were they put up 40 points. Bad O-line play and an inconsistent running game doomed the Steelers that year, but they got the 11th pick in the draft the following year and selected Big Ben...The rest is history after that.

[@shaunbaker5158]

Sure, the Maddox experiment was fun, but it wasn’t sustainable. We lost our identity, took a full year away from Jerome Bettis’s HOF career and we ended up 6-10. Tommy can be the QB, just don’t make us the run and shoot. Same team goes 15-1 the next year with ball control.

[@soulesslemming]

Anyone else still have their "Tommy Gun auto Maddox" t shirt?

[@joebrown9204]

tommy maddox was trash, they called him "pic off Tommy " in college.

[@doggieGZ]

Burres, Ward, Randle El. This WR group was just begging for a halfway decent passer... friggin Kordell lol...

[@ArmedNDangerous]

Tommy was decent, he wasn't great but he wasn't the worst either + he had all the weapons around him too & Burress could of been something special if he didn't decide to shoot himself like a fucking idiot had a pistol on him but it wasn't secure that was all bad judgement by him I know mistakes happen but mistakes with a gun is unacceptable that could of cost him or somebody else their life. Randle El was the truth low key #Steelers4Life# aka #SteelerGang#

[@BlackIce100]

I'm just hoping the young man from Maryland, I think his name is "Mcfarland" can be the "2020" version of Amos Zereoue, 🤞

[@BlackIce100]

@@JW0143 I don't know what you were watching when Zereoue was playing but he gave the steelers a quick 3rd down back that they haven't had probably since Bell was the starter and 3rd down back, so excluding him. That's all I'm saying. Hey if he produces as a starter, even better.

[@BlackIce100]

@@JW0143 I hear you, just from his highlights from the Ohio St. game alone I see his potential, I'm with you on McFarland, Steeler Nation!!

[@TheGmess1982]

I think Tommy Maddox would have had a different career if he hadn’t of had that bad injury against the Titans that year. But this season led to them to drafting Ben.

[@lancearp7389]

Tommy was pretty damn good until that last concussion. When Ben came in for him I knew he would never play for us again

[@lovemaddenstephanieramirez7255]

Devin Bush will be are Kendrell Bell just stay healthy....

[@SidandGeno-k6k]

This was the Steelers only good game in 2003.

[@marshallkarp]

Tommy was tough.

[@d0nKsTaH]

Still believe Maddox was one of the greatest "comeback" stories ever... The guy was out of football a long time and somehow found a team ...and even took them to the championship game What history will never know... is whether or not he could have gotten the Steelers to a Super Bowl had Ben not come along. Remember... this is the guy Denver drafted to replace an aging and (then) hurting John Elway. They tossed him away....

[@tannerboyle6610]

Maddox didn’t start in a championship game. He lost to Titans in Divisional

[@d0nKsTaH]

@@tannerboyle6610 bah! Technicalities .... :P

[@E3litecompany]

Maddox was never the same after that Keith bullock hit, it messed him up badly

[@novakruss510]

Tommy Gun brought the passing to the Burgh

[@E3litecompany]

Young ed reed was getting abused

[@anonymousanonymity2815]

Ah kendrell bell, glass man.

[@Smp88]

Good to see yall got to go back in time to watch wins now

[@LV_daWEED]

Sorry but he was not very good I think people here are just being nice

[@ryanatorryanson9535]

Maddox has to be one of the biggest one year wonder players ever.

[@supercook49]

All to get replaced the very next year by some rookie in a No.7 jersey named Ben lol

[@jr.kendle7230]

SMH

[@mikebaxter87]

What's with the terrible announcers Ian Eagle and Soloman Wilcots? Every good tackle or forced fumble it was Brent Alexander were they high on weed? All ya hadda do was look and see it was Kendrell Bell who sadly didn't last much longer

[@ItzYinzburgh]

Yeah, never understood it. I suppose he saw the “7” on the side of the jersey but Kendrell was about 40 lbs heavier than Brent lol

[@mikebaxter87]

@@ItzYinzburgh yeah lots of terrible announcers over the yrs

[@mannyamato247]

Gosh !!! Plaxico was such a wasted talent

[@rmm9222]

I mean he could have had a stellar career, but he only had an average one. Had some really good years but never consistent enough

[@mannyamato247]

Reed McLaughlin I don’t think he ever played to his potential ! Agree ?

[@steelerspittsburgh875]

He did say he regretted leaving even though he got a ring in New York

[@tacey01]

The NFL is a very tough way to make a living. Burress was loaded with talent but struggled with life in other ways.

[@DaltonPepple]

Accrit not Accurate

[@JD-te9tj]

Games like this are very important, to me. Tommy "Machine Gun" Maddox, coming through...again when people had doubts. I never did. I never blamed the QB, if you can't work together, it will never work. How many times were we lured away by money? Where did that get us? Great pay! Lousy team...stick with the winners, not the whiners, is what I was taught.

[@jaymac508]

Troubling how this team went 6-10 with this talent but it led to getting Ben so I don’t harp on it that much. Sometimes you need a down season to set up the next 10-15 years.