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

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🙏🙏

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.

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!

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

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.

I love these "Forgotten" videos!

Love some Famous Amos! Great video as always!

The good old insurance salesmen.

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.

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.

I love Tommy Maddox. I have his XFL jersey

Found another oldy but goody. Love these videos of these games from the past great Steelers wins. Maddox was a force to be reckoned with. Burgess is a beast, Ward catches great & loved watching my fav Bettis run over everybody.

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

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

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

I love Tommy Gun 🏈

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

TOMMY GUN!

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)

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.

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

Maddox was pretty damn good.

His passes are wobbly

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.

Maddox is huge.

Tommy Gun brought the passing to the Burgh

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Tommy was tough.

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....

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!

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

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

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.

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

Ah kendrell bell, glass man.

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

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.

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

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

This was the Steelers only good game in 2003.

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

Young ed reed was getting abused

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#

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Gosh !!! Plaxico was such a wasted talent

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