Ted Karras is headed to a house of horrors this weekend in Miami, in a stadium that has left its mark on every Patriots center for nearly two decades.



The heat is unbearable. The sweat is uncontrollable. The normal concerns about identifying blitzes and getting to the second level take a back seat to something nobody but Tom Brady and his centers ever think about.



“Try to stay as dry as possible,” Karras said.



You know.



Down there.



“I always tell them I don’t want to throw a wet ball on a perfectly sunny day,” Brady said.



Karras isn’t trying to be funny. He knows this is a prerequisite of his job because, well, everyone who has worked with Brady knows he despises sticking his hands into a swampy situation.



Every center who’s ever lined up in front of Brady has found out what it feels like to gross out the greatest quarterback of all time. There’s a reason he stuffs a towel...