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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We head out to the k Common Spirit Health Highline
and bring on Broncos starting left tackle Garrett Bowles, who
joins us here on K Sports is presented by Kodiak
Building partners in the Kodiak Foundation, together creating meaningful change
with seventy two to charity. Garrett, my friend, it's good
to keep check in with you as always.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm good, my brother, how are you guys? Good to
hear from you guys a game.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Yeah, we're we're doing good.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Gear appreciate the time, So let's just jump right in it.
Second consecutive, really tough loss on the road. What couple
of things after you've seen the film, what couple of
things can the entire team do or maybe even specifically
offensively that can help you guys get over the hump
and start to win some of these really tight, winnable games.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, that's a good question, Dave. I truly believe it
just comes down to the small and simple things. How
we're controlling the line of screamage number one and number two,
how we're converting down on third down. I mean, I
truly believe the more times that we play within you know,
three to third and five or third and six instead
(01:07):
of you know, third to seven or third or eleven,
and then also cut back our penalties. I think if
we focus on those two things, you know, offense and defensively,
I truly we can turn this around. And obviously, you know,
we were in this situation last year, you know, going
to Tampa, winning the game of Tampa and then going
to Greenbrier and then you know, spending that week out
there and getting to know each other even better as
(01:28):
the team, and then you know, beating the Jets. So
I truly believe like our schedule moving forward is definitely
the way that we want it to be. And you know,
we just got you know, dig deep, work a little
bit harder during the weekend, and get back on track.
And I truly that we'll do that this week.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Garrett.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
You guyss have done something over the past couple of
weeks that I actually I am actually rooting for and
looking to see more. And that's a running the ball
coming on in that second half, you guys were brilliant
taking the ball down the field and the guy lean
to charge was JK Dobbins. I mean, what was that
like watching him actually come out and score that touchdown?
After halftime against his former team.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Huge for us. You know, obviously we want to run
the ball. We gotta do a lot better job or
running the ball. We got to you know, do a
lot better job of, you know, putting us in situations
where you know the coach wants to call it. You know,
Coach sp and I too, we believe that, you know,
moving forward down the stretch, he's gonna rely us on
even more, just like he did last year. And you know,
watching JK do his thing is awesome, man, you know,
(02:27):
opening up holes and watching that boys spring. You know,
we had the back truly, I truly believe that we
have the two of the best backs in the league
when it comes to explosiveness and you know, making sure
that we get the ball down the field and we
gotta feed. We gotta feed the beast. And you know
when you watch him coming to this week, you know,
especially all this preparation, you know he was fired up
to play as you know, this team that his old
(02:49):
team that he was on, and you know, we we
need to do a better job of, you know, when
we have those type of guys on our team to
close out those games for those guys, and you know,
give them the love and support. But you know, watching
them score and watch them do his thing is awesome. Man.
I can't wait to see what he does moving down
the stretch.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, you talked about it in a moment ago about
being better on first and second down as it relates,
of course, to getting not in these third and long situations.
I know, again that's the coaching staff and their calls ultimately,
but from the player's standpoint, from the execution standpoint, what
are what are those situations kind of look like for
you guys when it comes to trying to put yourselves
in more advantageous positions later on in the down in
(03:26):
the drive.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
We just got to execute, you know. I mean, I
truly believe, you know, an old coach once told me,
you know, it's not the plays, it's the players, And
you know, I understand that to a certain extent, but
I truly believe, like when you call the plays, we
have the players to make each play go. And I
truly believe we just got to you know, toneing in
our assignments, make sure that we're we're blocking, and make
(03:49):
sure that you know, number ten pills feels good in
the pocket, and then you know, obviously, you know, when
we give him time and comfortable and get him in
a situation where he feels that you know, he can't
because is when both shreds defenses and you know we
saw last year, and so we just got to get
his confidence level up. We got to get him cooking
and what we need him to do. And obviously, you know,
the boys up front, you know, I truly believe that
(04:11):
we have one of the best all lines of football,
if not the best, And we just got to continue
to build and you know, eventually we're going to start
winning these close games. And that's just what the football does.
Does Dave knows all about that?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, when you when you look at these last two weeks,
and again we know that playing in the NFL is hard.
It's rewarding at times. Uh, it's a lot more fun
coming to work when you're winning, and it's not all
that fun when you're when you've lost a couple of
games like that. Do from a veteran standpoint, do you
(04:42):
since early in the season any any level of frustration,
maybe more so than the normal frustration during the week
from the guys in terms of like offensively being able
to have that that four quarters of consistent play or
is this just something that it's early in the season.
Some of you guys figure you're going to find a
way to get worked out.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
No, No, for sure, I truly truly believe that. You know,
I think the younger guys don't truly understand what the
NFL is about, you know what I mean, Dave, when
it comes to the frustrations and losing these close games,
and you know, us best, some players, we need to
do a better job, and you know, understanding that. You know,
football is a long season. It's not a spring the marathon.
(05:24):
And you know everyone's heard that same before and I
truly believe that. And you know, really, you just got
to come to work humble and hungry every single day.
And sometimes, you know, football sucks, and sometimes it's amazing,
and the more that you win, it's amazing. But when
you lose these close games two weeks in a row,
on the game when it can go, it freaking sucks.
I mean, there's there's no ifs and hands about it.
(05:45):
Like football is miserable when you lose close games like this.
But I think what we have to realize is you
know that I've realized, especially you know, over the last
couple of years is like, you know what, football is
still fun. You still got to enjoy it, You still
gotta love it, You still gotta love your brothers, because
when it's out there, you know you're gonna miss those moments.
You're gonna miss the times where it sucks, and you're
gonna miss those times where it's amazing. And really just
(06:07):
got to come up with a positive attitude every single time.
And I think we have a lot of positive people
in the building, you know, from top down, and I
truly believe we have a great team that is humble
and hungry and ready to win, and we just got
to find a way to win. And I truly believe
that we're going to get right back on track where
we belong. And you know we got we got a
big time game coming up here on Monday night football
in front of our home crowd, which is the best
(06:29):
home crowd and all of the NFL, and you know,
they give us that juice, they give us that excitement.
I know the guys that made mistakes the last two
weeks aren't going to.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Make those mistakes again because we.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Have a team guys that are just you know, eager
to learn and ego to get better. So I'm really
looking forward to seeing what happens here in the next
couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Yeahl let's talk about that process for a little and
take the listeners inside the locker room. When you are
playing a game like this and it's all stressful and
there's a lot of pressure associated with it, and every
player wants to go out and make a play, make
a positive play, how do you guys come together collectively
to put these last two games behind you and therefore
(07:07):
move on and therefore make every day before the game
a great game.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah. I think what we did in the Coats game
was you know what we did in the Tennessee game. Obviously,
you know, we we won. And then when we played
the Colts, I thought there was a lot of good
things that we did and there was also some things
that we just physically can't do. And then obviously, you know,
in the Charges game, I felt like we stat when
we needed to score. We need to score, you know.
In the in the Coats game, we started off fast
(07:35):
and we scored on our first drive, you know, and
then in the Charges game, we didn't score on our
first time. We didn't score until colases a halftime, So
you know, sometimes there's some bumps in the road as
you go through, you know, the four quarters of the game.
You know only that the sixty minutes and stuff. It's
a four hour football game, and you gotta, you gotta,
you gotta see how many times you can you know,
avoid those speed bumps, and sometimes you're gonna have those,
and sometimes you have to roll through the punches and
(07:57):
go through those things. But I truly believe that, you know,
as a core group of a team of the Denver Broncos,
I truly believe that we have we're doing a lot
of great things. I think our special teams is doing great.
We got to turn over in the game, you know,
that was super positive. We got to turn that into points.
Or you know, when the offense was in the red zone,
we got to score. You know, if we scored instead
of don't you know not you know, ten to seventeen,
(08:18):
it's it's ten to twenty four. So you know, those
are the different moments, those crucial situations in those games
where you know, the ebbs and blows of the game
that we have to score points to win. And I
thought our defense played outstanding. I thought they handled what
they needed to do. You know, if you would have
said that, you know, the Chargers offense is only gonna
have three points, you know, it's what three to seven,
(08:38):
you know a halftime or toward ten to seven and
a half time like that was just that's just a
crazy expanse, especially with the high power offense they had.
So our defense is doing what they need to do.
They're gonna continue to do what they do. We gotta
we gotta take off of each other when one when
one unit's down, the other unit's got to step up.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
And you know, this is this is the point.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Where you're gonna find out who we truly are in
these next couple weeks. Is can we can we go
from one to two to two and two to three
and two and then just continue to go down the
stretch like we did last year? And you know we
have we have the team to do it, we have
the dangerous weapons to do it, we have the coaching
staff to do it.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Now it's just up to us.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Perfectly said, you guys like primetime games. You decided about
Monday night football coming up.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I think you know as a kid you always dream
about playing on Monday night and Sunday night football. I'm
a big believer in Sunday night football. I love, I
love Sunday night football. Well, obviously we have Monday night
and it's still the same feelings. It's still you know,
the last game of the week.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I just to team.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
The difference is, you know, you have an extra bonus
day when you play on Monday, so you've got to
navigate through that when you were younger, but as you
get older, you cherish these moments. Man, everyone's watching, everyone's
doing it. It's an exciting time. But nothing's better than
a primetime game in Mile High I mean, I truly believe.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It's it's a special, special place to play.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I and cherish. I cherish, our fans are cherished. You
know the traditions that we have here in Denver, and
you know it's a special time for sure. Karl.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Always appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Best of luck on Monday, and we will check in
with you next week.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Thank you so much, yeap much love to you all guys.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Talk to you soon. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Garre Bowles on Kaoe Sports is presented by Kodiak Building
Partners and the Kodiak Foundation. Together creating meaningful change with
the seventy two to charity as the Kodiak Foundation donates
seventy two dollars for every Denver offensive points to number
seventy twos GB three foundation making a difference for children, families,
and veterans in our communities. Currently for the season, four
thousan eight hundred and ninety six dollars Very cool stuff.
We head out to the k Common Spirit Health Highline
and bring on Broncos starting left tackle Garrett Bowles, who
joins us here on K Sports is presented by Kodiak
Building partners in the Kodiak Foundation, together creating meaningful change
with seventy two to charity. Garrett, my friend, it's good
to keep check in with you as always.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm good, my brother, how are you guys? Good to
hear from you guys a game.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Yeah, we're we're doing good.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Gear appreciate the time, So let's just jump right in it.
Second consecutive, really tough loss on the road. What couple
of things after you've seen the film, what couple of
things can the entire team do or maybe even specifically
offensively that can help you guys get over the hump
and start to win some of these really tight, winnable games.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, that's a good question, Dave. I truly believe it
just comes down to the small and simple things. How
we're controlling the line of screamage number one and number two,
how we're converting down on third down. I mean, I
truly believe the more times that we play within you know,
three to third and five or third and six instead
(01:07):
of you know, third to seven or third or eleven,
and then also cut back our penalties. I think if
we focus on those two things, you know, offense and defensively,
I truly we can turn this around. And obviously, you know,
we were in this situation last year, you know, going
to Tampa, winning the game of Tampa and then going
to Greenbrier and then you know, spending that week out
there and getting to know each other even better as
(01:28):
the team, and then you know, beating the Jets. So
I truly believe like our schedule moving forward is definitely
the way that we want it to be. And you know,
we just got you know, dig deep, work a little
bit harder during the weekend, and get back on track.
And I truly that we'll do that this week.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Garrett.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
You guyss have done something over the past couple of
weeks that I actually I am actually rooting for and
looking to see more. And that's a running the ball
coming on in that second half, you guys were brilliant
taking the ball down the field and the guy lean
to charge was JK Dobbins. I mean, what was that
like watching him actually come out and score that touchdown?
After halftime against his former team.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Huge for us. You know, obviously we want to run
the ball. We gotta do a lot better job or
running the ball. We got to you know, do a
lot better job of, you know, putting us in situations
where you know the coach wants to call it. You know,
Coach sp and I too, we believe that, you know,
moving forward down the stretch, he's gonna rely us on
even more, just like he did last year. And you know,
watching JK do his thing is awesome, man, you know,
(02:27):
opening up holes and watching that boys spring. You know,
we had the back truly, I truly believe that we
have the two of the best backs in the league
when it comes to explosiveness and you know, making sure
that we get the ball down the field and we
gotta feed. We gotta feed the beast. And you know
when you watch him coming to this week, you know,
especially all this preparation, you know he was fired up
to play as you know, this team that his old
(02:49):
team that he was on, and you know, we we
need to do a better job of, you know, when
we have those type of guys on our team to
close out those games for those guys, and you know,
give them the love and support. But you know, watching
them score and watch them do his thing is awesome. Man.
I can't wait to see what he does moving down
the stretch.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, you talked about it in a moment ago about
being better on first and second down as it relates,
of course, to getting not in these third and long situations.
I know, again that's the coaching staff and their calls ultimately,
but from the player's standpoint, from the execution standpoint, what
are what are those situations kind of look like for
you guys when it comes to trying to put yourselves
in more advantageous positions later on in the down in
(03:26):
the drive.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
We just got to execute, you know. I mean, I
truly believe, you know, an old coach once told me,
you know, it's not the plays, it's the players, And
you know, I understand that to a certain extent, but
I truly believe, like when you call the plays, we
have the players to make each play go. And I
truly believe we just got to you know, toneing in
our assignments, make sure that we're we're blocking, and make
(03:49):
sure that you know, number ten pills feels good in
the pocket, and then you know, obviously, you know, when
we give him time and comfortable and get him in
a situation where he feels that you know, he can't
because is when both shreds defenses and you know we
saw last year, and so we just got to get
his confidence level up. We got to get him cooking
and what we need him to do. And obviously, you know,
the boys up front, you know, I truly believe that
(04:11):
we have one of the best all lines of football,
if not the best, And we just got to continue
to build and you know, eventually we're going to start
winning these close games. And that's just what the football does.
Does Dave knows all about that?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, when you when you look at these last two weeks,
and again we know that playing in the NFL is hard.
It's rewarding at times. Uh, it's a lot more fun
coming to work when you're winning, and it's not all
that fun when you're when you've lost a couple of
games like that. Do from a veteran standpoint, do you
(04:42):
since early in the season any any level of frustration,
maybe more so than the normal frustration during the week
from the guys in terms of like offensively being able
to have that that four quarters of consistent play or
is this just something that it's early in the season.
Some of you guys figure you're going to find a
way to get worked out.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
No, No, for sure, I truly truly believe that. You know,
I think the younger guys don't truly understand what the
NFL is about, you know what I mean, Dave, when
it comes to the frustrations and losing these close games,
and you know, us best, some players, we need to
do a better job, and you know, understanding that. You know,
football is a long season. It's not a spring the marathon.
(05:24):
And you know everyone's heard that same before and I
truly believe that. And you know, really, you just got
to come to work humble and hungry every single day.
And sometimes, you know, football sucks, and sometimes it's amazing,
and the more that you win, it's amazing. But when
you lose these close games two weeks in a row,
on the game when it can go, it freaking sucks.
I mean, there's there's no ifs and hands about it.
(05:45):
Like football is miserable when you lose close games like this.
But I think what we have to realize is you
know that I've realized, especially you know, over the last
couple of years is like, you know what, football is
still fun. You still got to enjoy it, You still
gotta love it, You still gotta love your brothers, because
when it's out there, you know you're gonna miss those moments.
You're gonna miss the times where it sucks, and you're
gonna miss those times where it's amazing. And really just
(06:07):
got to come up with a positive attitude every single time.
And I think we have a lot of positive people
in the building, you know, from top down, and I
truly believe we have a great team that is humble
and hungry and ready to win, and we just got
to find a way to win. And I truly believe
that we're going to get right back on track where
we belong. And you know we got we got a
big time game coming up here on Monday night football
in front of our home crowd, which is the best
(06:29):
home crowd and all of the NFL, and you know,
they give us that juice, they give us that excitement.
I know the guys that made mistakes the last two
weeks aren't going to.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Make those mistakes again because we.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Have a team guys that are just you know, eager
to learn and ego to get better. So I'm really
looking forward to seeing what happens here in the next
couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Yeahl let's talk about that process for a little and
take the listeners inside the locker room. When you are
playing a game like this and it's all stressful and
there's a lot of pressure associated with it, and every
player wants to go out and make a play, make
a positive play, how do you guys come together collectively
to put these last two games behind you and therefore
(07:07):
move on and therefore make every day before the game
a great game.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah. I think what we did in the Coats game
was you know what we did in the Tennessee game. Obviously,
you know, we we won. And then when we played
the Colts, I thought there was a lot of good
things that we did and there was also some things
that we just physically can't do. And then obviously, you know,
in the Charges game, I felt like we stat when
we needed to score. We need to score, you know.
In the in the Coats game, we started off fast
(07:35):
and we scored on our first drive, you know, and
then in the Charges game, we didn't score on our
first time. We didn't score until colases a halftime, So
you know, sometimes there's some bumps in the road as
you go through, you know, the four quarters of the game.
You know only that the sixty minutes and stuff. It's
a four hour football game, and you gotta, you gotta,
you gotta see how many times you can you know,
avoid those speed bumps, and sometimes you're gonna have those,
and sometimes you have to roll through the punches and
(07:57):
go through those things. But I truly believe that, you know,
as a core group of a team of the Denver Broncos,
I truly believe that we have we're doing a lot
of great things. I think our special teams is doing great.
We got to turn over in the game, you know,
that was super positive. We got to turn that into points.
Or you know, when the offense was in the red zone,
we got to score. You know, if we scored instead
of don't you know not you know, ten to seventeen,
(08:18):
it's it's ten to twenty four. So you know, those
are the different moments, those crucial situations in those games
where you know, the ebbs and blows of the game
that we have to score points to win. And I
thought our defense played outstanding. I thought they handled what
they needed to do. You know, if you would have
said that, you know, the Chargers offense is only gonna
have three points, you know, it's what three to seven,
(08:38):
you know a halftime or toward ten to seven and
a half time like that was just that's just a
crazy expanse, especially with the high power offense they had.
So our defense is doing what they need to do.
They're gonna continue to do what they do. We gotta
we gotta take off of each other when one when
one unit's down, the other unit's got to step up.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
And you know, this is this is the point.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Where you're gonna find out who we truly are in
these next couple weeks. Is can we can we go
from one to two to two and two to three
and two and then just continue to go down the
stretch like we did last year? And you know we
have we have the team to do it, we have
the dangerous weapons to do it, we have the coaching
staff to do it.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Now it's just up to us.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Perfectly said, you guys like primetime games. You decided about
Monday night football coming up.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I think you know as a kid you always dream
about playing on Monday night and Sunday night football. I'm
a big believer in Sunday night football. I love, I
love Sunday night football. Well, obviously we have Monday night
and it's still the same feelings. It's still you know,
the last game of the week.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I just to team.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
The difference is, you know, you have an extra bonus
day when you play on Monday, so you've got to
navigate through that when you were younger, but as you
get older, you cherish these moments. Man, everyone's watching, everyone's
doing it. It's an exciting time. But nothing's better than
a primetime game in Mile High I mean, I truly believe.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It's it's a special, special place to play.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I and cherish. I cherish, our fans are cherished. You
know the traditions that we have here in Denver, and
you know it's a special time for sure. Karl.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Always appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Best of luck on Monday, and we will check in
with you next week.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Thank you so much, yeap much love to you all guys.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Talk to you soon. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Garre Bowles on Kaoe Sports is presented by Kodiak Building
Partners and the Kodiak Foundation. Together creating meaningful change with
the seventy two to charity as the Kodiak Foundation donates
seventy two dollars for every Denver offensive points to number
seventy twos GB three foundation making a difference for children, families,
and veterans in our communities. Currently for the season, four
thousan eight hundred and ninety six dollars Very cool stuff.
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