Enter the Patriots: Appetizer to revenge

“… and then you have Godzilla, who is reality.”

When Pete Carroll was head coach of the New England Patriots from 1997 to 1999, Dante Scarnecchia was his special teams coordinator until Carroll installed him as the offensive line coach in the final year, a position he remains in with the Patriots to this day notwithstanding his semi-retirement in 2014-15. The way Scarnecchia notably restored stability to New England’s offensive line with his return this year, after some struggles in 2015 under Dave DeGuglielmo and despite featuring mostly a mix of unheralded mid-late-round draft picks and undrafted talent (left tackle Nate Solder is the Patriots’ only first-round starter; the center David…