How will Garoppolo do?

It’s time for Jimmy Garoppolo to re-warm up that right arm of his. One year after he initially believed he would get a chance to start the first four games of the season for the Patriots — and get a chance to leave his first real imprint and impression on the league — Garoppolo will finally get that chance.

Tom Brady is suspended (again). Deflategate is back (again). The Patriots are (once again) facing the opening four-game stretch to the season without their quarterback.

The last time this played out, a year ago, Brady’s suspension was overturned and he ended up leading the Patriots to a perfect 4-0 start that eventually turned into a 10-0 record. This time, well, we don’t know how it’ll play out legally. But if Brady does miss those first four games — and for now, let’s assume that he will be absent — this is what we know about the Patriots’ first four games of the 2016 season: It includes two games against playoff teams and two games played in primetime, and two divisional games.

Let’s take a deeper look at that stretch:

Week 1: at Arizona on Sunday Night Football

A juicy matchup when the league first announced the schedule, the first Sunday Night Football game of 2016 could turn into a disaster. Not only will the Patriots be Brady-less, but they’ll also be playing in Arizona against the Cardinals — a team that went 13-3 a season ago and came up a game short of the Super Bowl, like the Patriots.

To be clear, a Patriots team sans Brady should be a mismatch for the defending NFC West champs. By both yards and points, Arizona featured a top-10 defense last year. They forced the second-most turnovers with 33.

Reminder: Jimmy Garoppolo has never started …

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