Just ask Dante Scarnecchia, the legendary offensive line coach every bit a part of the Patriot Way as Belichick, Brady and chowder who put Karras anywhere and everywhere.
“The thing about Ted,” Scarnecchia says, “is you could always rely on him If someone was hurt inside, the wheels would never come off the offense. It didn’t matter who he was playing against. He was going to be competitive with them. He was going to study the guy and know what to do and how to do it.”
Karras’ decency landed in the middle of the hard-core New England media and on occasion his niceness bull-rushed the cynicism out of them. Reporters began calling stops by Karras’ locker, “Ted Talks.” Red Sox icon Ted Williams is the first “Teddy Ballgame,” but Karras heard that directed at him a few times and loves it.
“They’re going to like him there,” Scarnecchia says.
About six months after Scarnecchia was the only offensive line coach to appear at Karras’ 2016 pro day at the University of Illinois, he needed to…