What is this Titans comparison I keep reading? Different team, different week.
Because the argument you are putting forth is Brady and the Titans showed mercy for the Bucs only, because they didn't against the Titans a week earlier. They didn't, not until the end of the third quarter (just like against Tenn) anyway. They took everything they could from the Titans, just they would have against the Bucs in the first 2 1/2 quarters. Belichick and the Pats didn't change their stripes of the last 8 years in 7 days.
For god's sake, they tried a fake friggin' punt. What isn't getting through?