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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, was expecting kind of a quiet Friday show. And
then as we were about to crack this microphone to
start the program today, we received an email from the
Utah Athletics Department, our guy Keeler mcjunkin that Coach Witt
is stepping down Kyle Whittingham, the all time winning a
said coach in the history of the University of Utah's
football program. We'll step down from leading the Utes and
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we'll continue his highly successful tenure in the Las Vegas
Ball on December the thirty first, Our next guest is
one of Coach WIT's success stories. Certainly, the bulk of
the credit goes to the player, which is Garrett Bowles
on a Friday afternoon. Garrett, Happy Friday, Buddy, how are
we doing.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I'm doing Goodickey, I'm well.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I really appreciate your time. So just your instant reaction.
You know, we've had Eric wedelon, We've had Sean O'Connell on.
It feels like a lot of people maybe saw this coming,
but now that it is official. What does Garrett Bules
have to say about Coach wit stepping down?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Well, Number one, it's always said when you have a
coach like that, step down that has done not just
so much amazing things for me, but just amazing people,
for so many players and so many people in the
state of Utah. And you know where he took, you know,
obviously took over for irber Meyer and then took you know,
this team to where it's at now. Is just an
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unbelievable career for him. And you know, the relationship that
I have with him means the world to me. I
love him so much. He's given me everything I can imagine.
Taught me to be a better father, better football player,
taught me, you know, mental toughness, and so many things
that has applied to my life not just as a
father and a husband, but as a football player in
the NFL. And I'm being grateful for our friendship. You know, obviously,
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you know, coach Scout is going to do a phenomenal
job taking that over. And you know, we keep everything
in the house at Utah. That's one thing that's special
about this program is all of our coaches have been
there for ten plus years and you know that's a
very unique situation, especially this day and age in college
football and the guys around and keeping this Utel family
so tight and that's just what it is. It's always
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the next man of mentality. And I know coach Scalley's
going to do a phenomenal job. But you know, hats
off the coach whip for everything he's done. Has given
his life to this team and he has blessed so
many people's lives. So it's a sad day and a
good day at the same time.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know, the consistent theme Garrett has been the effect
that he has had on his players and young men
like yourself. And you know, he wedd called him a
father figure and your comments just now all of us
from the outside looking in simply know what he did
for the program as a coach, because you guys won
at such a high level and the program is now
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one of the pre eminent college football programs in the
Western United States. But as far as what allows him
to have such an impact on all of you as
a leader and a father figure, what's kind of his
secret sauce, How has it been able to mentor so
many young men the way he mentored you.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I mean, I think number one is just his faith
and what he leaves in and what he believes that
all men should be. And you know, his obviously Mama
Woodingham love her so much too. But his companion that
rise and died with him every single day, that rides
just hardly with him, and all those things, like those
two people are so incredible. The whole Woodingham family is incredible,
but specifically you know Kyle and what he does and
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what he stands for, his moral values, his his family,
his knowing what his why is and sharing these stories.
I mean, you you know, because one of him was
one of the big reasons why you know, I committed
the University of Utah and continue to go there because
of him being so consistent, you know, like what he
told me. He's like, listen, we're recruiting you, but I
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want to know about your mom. I want to know
about your wife. And he still textes my wife, he
still talks to my mom, and like that's that's how
it is. And that's one of the reasons why I
went to University of Utah. Obviously for you know, coach
Harding as well, but like what he is as a person.
I mean, he'll call me, text me with tell me
he's watched my game and asking me how I'm doing.
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He'll write me personal letters like he's just so involved
and wants to be involved. And you know, obviously when
I have my foundation events and things back during the summertime,
like he wants to be involved. He wants to be there,
you know, him and his wife coming. So that just
means the world to me. And you know, obviously, you know,
I play for my family and my faith, you know,
being in the NFL, but I also play for the
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Utah football family too, because that's the type of man
that I want to be. That's the type of person
I want to be. He's just so involved in the
youth and just wants to be involved in everything. I mean, obviously,
you know he with ty Jordan air in love. Like
just the respect that he has for his people, Like
most coaches want to do what he does, especially for
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people that passed on or that you know, that are
there for a short period of time. Like he knows
everybody by name, he knows everybody's family by name. He's
just an incredible person. And I'm just being ungrateful to
be able to have a mentor like that and to
be able to play under football coach like that. And
you know, just the GMS and the coaches in the
NFL respect coach Winningham so much. I mean my gam
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coach Paydon, I mean George Payton respects Coach Winningham so much.
You know, obviously he brings them out, let's him come
to games and stuff, but just to be there and
to see him and his success, this is truly remarkable
and I'm just I'm grateful, man, I'm so grateful to
be able to play for a man like that, and
he's left, He's left this program. He should be proud
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of for what he's accomplished and this where this team
is going.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
As far as his secret sauce as a coach, you know,
the one word that feels like it will be consistently echoed,
because of course we're going to do our best next
week to get as many guests on as we can
to continue to reflect on his tenure. But the intensity
that he seemed to bring day in and day out
practicing and then preparing you guys to play for the
game on Saturday. So as far as you know, we've
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just talked about coach with the man, the coach with
the coach intensity operation, how would you articulate what has
made him so effective in that lane?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He talks to us like like men. I think that's
the first and foremost is he talked to us like
we were his own kids, and he wanted to one
us to be able to do anything if he wasn't
going to tell his own kids back. And you know,
from the way that he prepped us, the way that
we trained, the way that we ate, the way that
we traveled, the way that we did, you know, every
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little thing from ab to c to be so successful.
And there's a reason why we win ten plus games
a year because he's gonna practice, he's gonna push his hard,
and he knows when to push us. He knows when
to pull back, he knows when he needs to jump
down our throat. He knows when to pull back. But
like when he yells, it's not like hey, man, get
to get the heck out of the room. It's like, like, dude,
what are you doing? You know, it's so mental and
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it's so powerful on the way that he coaches, and
you don't want to let him down. And you know,
there's a reason why there's so many dudes in the
lead that played for you know, five to ten years
or beyond that because of that mental toughness that he embraces,
that he puts into us and we have to embrace
it and inst the grind. And like when you get
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to the NFL, like, yeah, there's there's coaches that are
easier than others, but like coach Peyton, you know, the
pads and banging each other, Like I'm so used to
that because that's what we did at Utah and I
think that's just what transitions so well into the league.
And there's a reason why you know, Alex Smiths was
so successful and all these amazing people, because that's who
coach Winningham is and it's just that culture that he's built,
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the love factor, the respect factor, and like when I
say that we're truly a family, we are, Like there's
guys that are in the league that I never played with,
like a Caleb Lumber the tight end, and he's he's
a brother to me. Because that's the relationship and the
culture and the you know, faith based team that he
built is that everyone love everybody. And when you have
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that type of a culture and you don't want to
let your brother down, that's when this team is powerful.
And everyone's gonna say, oh, we never won the big games,
but we did win the big games because we put
dudes in the league number one. We put dudes in
the business field number two. And there are so many
people that played for this program and are so successful
in life because of Coach Winningham and what he does
for all of us from Mondays to Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You know, I was, I was asking what all this?
He played in the league for fourteen years? Is this
your eighth year, Garrett? That's hard to believe. Have you
been in eight years?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Now? Nine checks?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh smokes? Okay, nine years in the league?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I wonder, you know, because once upon a time when
I was in school with your uncle, and he and
I were in school together back in the nineties, you know,
Utah football, maybe one or two players per year would
either get draft or to get an invite, and there
weren't a ton of you players across the landscape. In
the NFL, there were some, but now it's very rare
to watch any game where there aren't multiple Utah football
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players involved in, you know, one team or the other
of the common what's the reputation in the NFL of
Kyle Whittingham and Utah football.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Number one is that they don't have to worry about
us because we're going to be respectful. We're going to
be reliable. We're going to show up every day to work.
We love football and we're good people in the communities
and we want to we want to push each other
in all aspects of life. You know, we're good fathers,
we're good husbands, we're just good men in general. And
you know when you when I got drafted. When I
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was getting drafted, I remember there's a lot of teams
that came up to me, was like, hey, there's a
reason why we brought you here for thirty man days
or brought you in for a formal interview at the
combine because of your coach and your coaching staff. And
I mean, I mean look at our team check it's
like coach Winham coach there for so many years, but
like the staff, I mean, he kept this staff together
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for so many years. And one thing was like, you
have to be consistent in football, Like you have to
have a consistent staff. You have to have to consistent
people and everyone's working for one goal. And that's obviously,
you know, winning big games, which we did win a
lot of big games. And you know there's a lot
of dudes that went onto the league. But like his
whole thing was he wanted to make you know good
men better. And that's truly what it was. And it
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was just that culture, man and being in the NFL,
like they know when they drafted Utah guys, they know
exactly what they're gonna get. They're gonna get a guy
that doesn't complain, that works hard, that loves football, that
just wants to be on the field and give it
everything he has, because that's how we were trained at Utah.
You know what I mean, Like when it's October or November,
there's other teams that aren't in pads. Oh, we're in
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pads and we're working like there's no there's no days off,
and it's the off season and it's red zone Fridays.
Like it sucks, check hits. It sucks what you do
in the off season, but it pays the price forward.
And what's so cool about being you know, a former
Utah Utah football players, like we pay that tribute forward
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for all the other kids that come through, all the
young men that come through. Like you know, when you
put that jersey on or you put that home on
out like its tradition and you know, all the guys
that played here went through the same thing, the same training,
running the heels with coach e on Saturday by Highland
High School. Like it's all these same things because it's
a family and we're all going to do this together.
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And obviously, like it's not that's guys that just play
in the NFL. It's guys that are businessmen. Like you're
going to get a Utah football player that's just trustworthy,
that wants to work hard, that are good people and
and loves football. And there's a reason why guys in
the league play longer than the average year, which is
three and a half years, Like guys are playing five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
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you know, fifteen years because of what Coach Woodingham has
done for us, the way that he's taught us, the
physicality that we bring, the mental game that we bring,
you know, also the spiritual game that we bring, because
that's just the coature we have and and it's just
it's just a really cool thing. Man. I Mean, I
obviously have talked to a lot of my old teammates
and and got to you know, I still talk to them,
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I still love I still have that because that's we
embrace each other, and that's what he's created, and that's
what the GMS and the coaches in the NFL level
also also see, and they love that factor. There's a
reason why Denver, ever since that I've been here, since
twenty seventeen, I have on average three to five guys
on my team every year that I played in college
because of that reason, and because you know, they know
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what we're going to get out of each other, and
they know exactly the type of person that they're going to.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Get, you know, you reference the spiritual side of the program. Garrett.
I want to dig into this for a moment because
it's kind of a It's an interesting thing where even
though you know, the University of Utah is in Salt
Lake City and we're in the state of Utah, where
there are you know, depending on where you live, the
majority of certain folks down south and up north, the
majority LDS church saalwt Lake, the number is a little
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bit different. But in the Utah football locker room, you
have coaches of all different faiths and you have players
of all different faiths, and it's not like BYU where
most of them are LDS. It's a little bit different now,
But what sort of leadership does Kyle provide that space
to encourage, you know, everybody just to kind of find
their own path and find their own way.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, I think I mean number one, I think that
what's so cool about University of Utahs. There's all different religions,
you right, there's there's Muslim, there's there's more, There's there's Catholic,
there's there's Christian, there's non dominational people, those people that
just believe in God but don't go to church. But
you know, we you know, Pastor Davies comes in, you know,
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he's he's a pastor in the Salt Lake City community
that comes up and talks to us, you know, and
then we have another minister that comes in that they
rotate and so we also, you know, we get the
Christian world, we get the Mormon world, we can we
get the Catholic world, and they rotate that. And it's
so cool because after practice, you know, we'll get together
in a corner. I don't know what they do now,
obviously they probably get in the defense or offensive team room,
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but we used to just do it on the field.
I think it was like every Wednesday or Thursday, we
would have a little session and you know, first some
weeks it would be ten to fifteen guys, and some
guys it would be fifty to sixty guys. It's just
such a neat experience, and you know, to have that
spiritual side, because I truly believe like we're a balanced
it's a balanced university, and especially a football team that
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you know, it's all about faith, family, and football. I mean,
that's really what it is. And and when you have
those three things that become your why and why you
do what you do. Obviously you build a culture that's
just strong and there's there's a reason why. You know,
there's two football programs in the entire country that I
think you know, build their programs off of that, and
it's coach Winningham at you know, University of Utah, and
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then there's obviously the program at University Iowa. And I
think both of those head coaches obviously you know, he's
still coaching in Iowa, but the one that you tah, Like,
if you talk about who's the toughest, all the gems
are gonna say, oh, you tell football players and Iowa
football players, And that's just the truth. And I think
it's because that that faith background and the love that
we have each other and they're very similar coaches in
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a lot of ways. Obviously, there's more utes in the
NFL that iowall admit that, but we don't have to
say that out too loud. But but that's that's what
it is, check it's and it's just it's truly just
a remarkable universe. Like I wish I was there longer
than just one semester. Obviously I did two years at
snow College, but I claim you talked through and through
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I bleed red and I love all those coaches so much,
and especially Coach Winning him and what he's given me
to be able to spring me forward to the man
I am today. And it's those it's those little things
that you that you miss, you know what I mean,
when you get to the league, as you miss those
moments of you know, there's a day where we can
get together and we can talk about God, we can
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talk about faith and and we're all there together and
it doesn't matter you know what race you are or
what religion you are, We're all coming together because we
all love God and we all love each other, and
we went what's best each other. And He's just always
there to help every single personnel and there's always a
different program. There's always something going on that each person,
like if you need a little bit of help with homework,
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or if it's religion, or if it's you know, my
family's hurting, Like there's somebody that always talk to and
I think it's just who he is as a person
to build that strong unity and that coach that we
have there.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
What about your specific positional group, Garrett, because obviously Kyle
is a believer that you got to win in the
trenches and that's what you taught football is known for.
And Jim Harding the offensive line coach, and of course
you are a left tackle, one of the best, by
the way, according to Pro Football Focus. Are you aware
that you're the best left tackle in the NFL? Did
you even know that?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I mean, I knew a little bit of it, but
I just, man, I just, I mean, obviously my team
talks to me about it, but really, man, I just
it's just one game at a time for me to
be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Sure, but like, what's the secret sauce with wit in Jim,
because you know, I'm Spencer Fano was about to be
a top ten pick. You you know, the best left
tackle in the country. So when it comes to the trenches,
where Kyle really believes football games are one, why did
you tough football develop such great offensive linemen?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, I think number one. Want to shout out to
all the old blocks if anyone's listening. But yeah, I
mean those are the two big reasons. I mean, I
mean there's three reasons why I came to Utah. Well,
obviously there's three coaches. You know, you got coach Woodingham,
you got coach Scalley, which is recruiting me, and then
coach Harting and they were just so consistent in all
my recruiting. And you know, I to be honest with
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I never really wanted to go to Utah, that was
really the truth. I wanted to go out of the state.
I wanted to go to Arkansas. I wanted to go
somewhere big, and it was just like the Lord was like, Nope,
this is where you're going. And there's a reason why
I went there. And it's the relationship factor that I
have with Coach Harding and just the small and things
that he knows what he does. And you know every
single person, you know, you got Cable Lomo, you got
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you got Spencer fun I mean, they're obviously the two
tackles that are going to get drafted in the in
the top you know, thirty picks or forty picks is
what they're saying, which is remarkable. And I think, you know,
I think there's a streak of Utah that every tackle
that has played for coach whitting for coach has been drafted.
I think, I'm I may be mistaken by I believe
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that's still the ongoing trend. And it's just the it's
the culture that we build their number one, it's the
offense that we play in. It's it's the mental toughness
that they created us and they just let us be ourselves.
I mean, to be an offense attacker, you sort of
have to be a weirdo, you know what I mean,
Like you have to you have to you have to
be you have to be a little freaky because there's
so many good dns in this league and you have
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to want to. And you know, obviously, Coach Harding is
a phenomenal coach and you know, I talked to him
on a regular basis. He means the world to me
and I can run anything by him on any little
thing of what he saw in the game or what
he sees that I can do better and he still
coaches me. And that's just the type of Manny is.
But it's definitely the family atmosphere. I think that's number
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one what brings these guys in and brings it together.
But you know, he knows how to he knows how
to look at guys that are athletic and big and strong,
and you know, we may not be the biggest names,
which is you know, the biggest names, or you know
they got as they go to Alabama and Auburn and
whatever they want to say, the SEC has a good lineman,
but I mean, quite frankly, we produced some of the
best linemen in football over the last ten years. And
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for Jordan Gross and all these guys, Zame Beatles, I mean,
all these guys that came in before us. I mean,
there's a reason why there's been so many big time
offensive lineman and defensive lineman in the league just because
of that competitive nature. He knows how to recruit people.
You know what's so unique about coach Hardening. He's a
math teacher. I don't know if you knew that. Check
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It's like he was a math teacher and you know,
when you go to school, you're like, oh, I get
a math teacher, Like, what the heck is this? You
know what I mean? They just talk so calm and
direct and patience and loving and just want what's best
for you. And a teacher of the game. I mean,
that's literally what Harding is is like he's the teacher
of a game and you know, all a minute, like
when I was when I was coming out of the draft,
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a lot of teams didn't think I was the smartest
and brightest, But what they didn't realize was I just
learned differently because I have a learning disability, and there's
day in and day out. I'd go to Coach Harding's
and I'd sit down with him, and he would teach
me x's and o's, and he would walk through plays
with me. He wanted what was best for me, and
you know, sometimes the guys just learned differently. But he
can put the most talented guy out there and make
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him the smartest guy because of the teacher of the game.
And obviously when you get in our weight lifting program
and our you know, obviously our nutrition program, and then
with Coach Harding's you know, freaking nature mindset of knowing
how to attack people and knowing technique and knowing how
to do these things from Dan and Abbs to be
a good offensive lineman. I mean, there's a reason why
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these guys are getting produced and Spencer's going to have
a phenomenal career, Caleb's going to have a phenomenal career,
and it's just so much fun to watch these young
guys just go and dominate. You know, Crumb in the middle,
Jarren Crumb had a phenomenal career, you know, obviously about
too injuries and came up and stepped up big at center.
And it's just so much fun to watch these young
boys to dominate the line of scrimmage. And obviously we
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had what the best O line in college football in
my opinion, and it's it just speaks volume of the
program that we have and the atmosphere that coach Harding provides.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Spencer obviously is gone. Do you think Caleb is too?
Do you think he's ready, because we're really hoping that
he comes back for at least one more year.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, I mean I'm not I'm not quite sure. Obviously,
I spent a lot of time with him, and you know,
this whole agency thing. He's signed with my agency, which
I think I have the best agent in all of
in the NFL. And that's just the truth. And he'll
be the first one to say every year when he's
about to recruit kids, of who he wants to recruit,
the first team he goes to is the University Utah
because he knows the type of character that he's going
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to get and you know, Caleb's Caleb's a phenomenal person.
I mean, obviously Spencer's going to go have a phenomenal
career in the NFL, and Caleb is, you know, your
prototypical left tackle. He's going to get the job done.
He's smooth with it, he's he's strong, he's agile, he
can bend. I mean, he protected you know, Dumber so
well this year. And it was just so much fun
to be able to connect with him and have that
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relationship with him, and you know, we talked and obviously
I need to talk to him more. I've just been
so busy, but it's always good to talk to him
and catch up with him and be able to train
with him in the summer times when I'm back at
back at home, and hopefully we continue to do that.
Throughout the years.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Before we get to a really cool honor for you,
I did want to ask you a question about Morgan,
who is now sliding over a seat and taking over
as the head man. It feels like it's a consensus, Garrett,
among the alum that this is the right move. Why
what gives you the most confidence that Morgan can keep
this thing going.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It's because he's played in the system. He's been at
Utah for you know, his whole career. He played here,
he coached here. He knows what it takes. But his
he's so enthusiastic, you know what I mean, He's just
so kind. But he's gonna he's gonna run you, he's
gonna he's gonna push you, he's gonna push his limits.
But you know, this day and age, you need somebody
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to come in and and have that culture in that
mindset of of taking young men and turning them in
the man. And you know this, You know, these younger
generation kids, they're a little bit different than when I
when we went to school, you know what I mean
checking say, a little bit just different with how many
technology and things like that that nature and coach Scaley
does a phenomenal job of knowing who to talk to
and who to bring in. Obviously, he is one of
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the best defenses in college football. And it's been like that.
And you know, obviously I don't know what it is,
but Utah football just loves defensive minded coaches, from Herbert
Mayer to Coach Woodingham to you know, Ron McBride to
coach a Coach Meyer, Right is that Ron? And then
coach Woodingham and now Scalley. I mean, obviously it's just
defensive minded people. And uh, it's just that mental toughness
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that he has, that direct has, the relationship back that
he has, the loving atmosphere. It's like having Coach Woodingham
all over again. It's just a two point zero version
of him and and and more you know, Yippida and
and and and that's really the difference. I mean, I
don't think we'll see a slight not even a slight
drop off. I think it's just going to continue to
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go forward, and it's going to move for our program.
You know, obviously it's sad to let Wooding him go
and you know, him to go live his life, but
he's been doing it for a long time and I'm
I'm excited to see what Skaaly can do. Obviously, you
know I have a great relationship with him with the
whole Sigma Kai thing through my uncle, So that was
pretty cool to be able to learn about that when
I was up there. But I love him. I think
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the word of him comes from a great family, and
I'm so excited to see what you can do for
this program.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Your uncle's gonna love that you dropped the Sigma Kai there, Garrett.
You know your uncle's gonna love that. Hey, before I
set you loose, not only are you elite what you
do on the field, you're very elite on what you
give back off the field. And you are the Broncos
nominee for the Walter Payton Man of the Year. Number one.
Congrat young man, keep making us proud. Number two. How
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can our listeners help you?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, I appreciate as a tremendous honor to be able
to repres the Broncos organization to be, you know, a
participate in this Man the Year. You know it's my
second the nominee. And you know I built my foundation.
I started in twenty seventeen and I've started to grow
obviously started in the Utah and now I'm starting to
get over here in Denver, but I help underprivileged kids
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to be able to get back to there, to give
them a life that you know, that I never lived
when I was younger, and to be able to provide
for them and to give them if it's mentor, if
it's mentoring, if it's counseling, if it's you know, spiritual, physical,
whatever it is about helping them find their why in
life and why we do what we do, and why
we want to wake up and why we want to
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go be successful. And obviously we're remodeling some pods right
now at the Marvin Foot Center, which is the correctional
facility right by my facility here in dub Valley in Colorado,
and I'm basically remodeling all six pods with new paint,
new carpet, new furniture, a sentry wall, some TVs, some
more technology for them to connect with their mentors so
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they're not just feeling like they're locked up and nobody
cares about them. My mentor over there mentored over two
hundred youth and that correctional facility also, so we're remodeling
that area. And then also you know, my son was
diagnosed with the practice of speech. We a launched the
first ever. It's called B and B so it's be
Orman Bulls Training Center for kids with a practicier. We're
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going to train specialize special speech teachers to be able
to have them specialize in a practice of speech, to
be able to help kids that are needed. My son
was diagnosed in twenty twenty one Kingston, So the curriculum
is going to be called I Am king which is
his name for sure, and we'll be able to get
back to the communities here. It's the first one ever
in the entire world to be able to train these
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people with the most renowned speech therapist, Jennie b Orm.
Never knew that when I signed my second contract when
my son was diagnosed, that she was going to be
twenty minutes away from my house. So God works the
mysterious ways. But I knew this was something that I
wanted to do. I wanted to open up a school
and training center to be able to provide kids for
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the things that they need. There's so many amazing things
that we have in store that we want to do
and continue to make this as big. We have our
first training coming up in this June. We just opened
up in August right before the season start, and then
we're just going through all the board members and being
able to come up with the curriculum, and there's just
a lot of work we're doing. So Number one, you
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can vote for me for for Pro Bowl. You can
also vote for me for a Walta Man of the
Year because there's so many different, you know, things that
you guys can do for me. I'm also doing a
twelve day giving on my on my Twitter twelve days
of giving for Christmas. So today's I think we have
a signed jersey by me, and then there's some other
things throughout the week. So I appreciate that all my
fans and all the love that I have for Utah.
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You know, it's a it's an honest to be able
to represent the state and to be able to come
over here and represent in the NFL. So I'm grateful
for all you guys and the love that I have
for all you guys.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Well, don Garrett, like I said, keep making us proud.
I appreciate the time and go Broncos.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Okay, yeah, mich love brother, talk to you soon, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Garrett Bowles one of the best to ever do it
at the University of Utah first round pick for the
Denver Broncos back in twenty seventeen, and according to Pro
Football Focus, we just had the best left tackle in
the NFL. On did you No? I didn't think so.
Great stuff from Garrett. He is the Broncos Man of
the Year nominee as far as the Walter Paide Man
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of the Year. So go find him on social media
and then he's given away an autograph Jersey. I sent
out the tweet on my Twitter page. He's got an
Instagram post as well. So really appreciate Garrett stopped and
by today, and really appreciate the shout out to siem
Ma Kay that apparently my producer just wasn't really a fan.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Of you guys do your thing.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Well, I'm just saying, when are you going to accept
that we run the city?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Uh, yeah, I guess you do kind of Well, shout
out Morgan Garrett definitely more now.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Garrett's uncle McKinley, who helped us get him on the
show today A proud I believe he was the pro
con which is vice president when I was a pledge.
So you guys were there together, Yeah, we were, and
Morgan was there a few years after US Garret. How
about Garrett Bowls the best left tackle in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
D something else he has been and listen, he showed
flashes of what he would be at the University of Utah.
He had some of those those plays where it looked
like the blind side right where he was just blowing
over other players in my manhandling guys at the Division
IE level. You could see, oh, there's some potential here,
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but Garrett was not like ready to play the position
at a pro level. The growth that he's made since
he stepped foot on campus, that potential coming to fruition,
shout out Jim Harding and the co there, and then
to get to Denver and just keep getting better, better
and better. It says a lot about his work ethic,
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phenomenal football player.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I want a sweet kid. I mean, if you're not
familiar familiar, excuse me with his story, I would encourage
you to look into it. Has overcome a ton to
literally be a master at his craft. Okay, well, I
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Well, was expecting kind of a quiet Friday show. And
then as we were about to crack this microphone to
start the program today, we received an email from the
Utah Athletics Department, our guy Keeler mcjunkin that Coach Witt
is stepping down Kyle Whittingham, the all time winning a
said coach in the history of the University of Utah's
football program. We'll step down from leading the Utes and
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we'll continue his highly successful tenure in the Las Vegas
Ball on December the thirty first, Our next guest is
one of Coach WIT's success stories. Certainly, the bulk of
the credit goes to the player, which is Garrett Bowles
on a Friday afternoon. Garrett, Happy Friday, Buddy, how are
we doing.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I'm doing Goodickey, I'm well.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I really appreciate your time. So just your instant reaction.
You know, we've had Eric wedelon, We've had Sean O'Connell on.
It feels like a lot of people maybe saw this coming,
but now that it is official. What does Garrett Bules
have to say about Coach wit stepping down?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Well, Number one, it's always said when you have a
coach like that, step down that has done not just
so much amazing things for me, but just amazing people,
for so many players and so many people in the
state of Utah. And you know where he took, you know,
obviously took over for irber Meyer and then took you know,
this team to where it's at now. Is just an
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unbelievable career for him. And you know, the relationship that
I have with him means the world to me. I
love him so much. He's given me everything I can imagine.
Taught me to be a better father, better football player,
taught me, you know, mental toughness, and so many things
that has applied to my life not just as a
father and a husband, but as a football player in
the NFL. And I'm being grateful for our friendship. You know, obviously,
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you know, coach Scout is going to do a phenomenal
job taking that over. And you know, we keep everything
in the house at Utah. That's one thing that's special
about this program is all of our coaches have been
there for ten plus years and you know that's a
very unique situation, especially this day and age in college
football and the guys around and keeping this Utel family
so tight and that's just what it is. It's always
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the next man of mentality. And I know coach Scalley's
going to do a phenomenal job. But you know, hats
off the coach whip for everything he's done. Has given
his life to this team and he has blessed so
many people's lives. So it's a sad day and a
good day at the same time.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know, the consistent theme Garrett has been the effect
that he has had on his players and young men
like yourself. And you know, he wedd called him a
father figure and your comments just now all of us
from the outside looking in simply know what he did
for the program as a coach, because you guys won
at such a high level and the program is now
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one of the pre eminent college football programs in the
Western United States. But as far as what allows him
to have such an impact on all of you as
a leader and a father figure, what's kind of his
secret sauce, How has it been able to mentor so
many young men the way he mentored you.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I mean, I think number one is just his faith
and what he leaves in and what he believes that
all men should be. And you know, his obviously Mama
Woodingham love her so much too. But his companion that
rise and died with him every single day, that rides
just hardly with him, and all those things, like those
two people are so incredible. The whole Woodingham family is incredible,
but specifically you know Kyle and what he does and
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what he stands for, his moral values, his his family,
his knowing what his why is and sharing these stories.
I mean, you you know, because one of him was
one of the big reasons why you know, I committed
the University of Utah and continue to go there because
of him being so consistent, you know, like what he
told me. He's like, listen, we're recruiting you, but I
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want to know about your mom. I want to know
about your wife. And he still textes my wife, he
still talks to my mom, and like that's that's how
it is. And that's one of the reasons why I
went to University of Utah. Obviously for you know, coach
Harding as well, but like what he is as a person.
I mean, he'll call me, text me with tell me
he's watched my game and asking me how I'm doing.
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He'll write me personal letters like he's just so involved
and wants to be involved. And you know, obviously when
I have my foundation events and things back during the summertime,
like he wants to be involved. He wants to be there,
you know, him and his wife coming. So that just
means the world to me. And you know, obviously, you know,
I play for my family and my faith, you know,
being in the NFL, but I also play for the
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Utah football family too, because that's the type of man
that I want to be. That's the type of person
I want to be. He's just so involved in the
youth and just wants to be involved in everything. I mean, obviously,
you know he with ty Jordan air in love. Like
just the respect that he has for his people, Like
most coaches want to do what he does, especially for
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people that passed on or that you know, that are
there for a short period of time. Like he knows
everybody by name, he knows everybody's family by name. He's
just an incredible person. And I'm just being ungrateful to
be able to have a mentor like that and to
be able to play under football coach like that. And
you know, just the GMS and the coaches in the
NFL respect coach Winningham so much. I mean my gam
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coach Paydon, I mean George Payton respects Coach Winningham so much.
You know, obviously he brings them out, let's him come
to games and stuff, but just to be there and
to see him and his success, this is truly remarkable
and I'm just I'm grateful, man, I'm so grateful to
be able to play for a man like that, and
he's left, He's left this program. He should be proud
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of for what he's accomplished and this where this team
is going.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
As far as his secret sauce as a coach, you know,
the one word that feels like it will be consistently echoed,
because of course we're going to do our best next
week to get as many guests on as we can
to continue to reflect on his tenure. But the intensity
that he seemed to bring day in and day out
practicing and then preparing you guys to play for the
game on Saturday. So as far as you know, we've
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just talked about coach with the man, the coach with
the coach intensity operation, how would you articulate what has
made him so effective in that lane?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He talks to us like like men. I think that's
the first and foremost is he talked to us like
we were his own kids, and he wanted to one
us to be able to do anything if he wasn't
going to tell his own kids back. And you know,
from the way that he prepped us, the way that
we trained, the way that we ate, the way that
we traveled, the way that we did, you know, every
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little thing from ab to c to be so successful.
And there's a reason why we win ten plus games
a year because he's gonna practice, he's gonna push his hard,
and he knows when to push us. He knows when
to pull back, he knows when he needs to jump
down our throat. He knows when to pull back. But
like when he yells, it's not like hey, man, get
to get the heck out of the room. It's like, like, dude,
what are you doing? You know, it's so mental and
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it's so powerful on the way that he coaches, and
you don't want to let him down. And you know,
there's a reason why there's so many dudes in the
lead that played for you know, five to ten years
or beyond that because of that mental toughness that he embraces,
that he puts into us and we have to embrace
it and inst the grind. And like when you get
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to the NFL, like, yeah, there's there's coaches that are
easier than others, but like coach Peyton, you know, the
pads and banging each other, Like I'm so used to
that because that's what we did at Utah and I
think that's just what transitions so well into the league.
And there's a reason why you know, Alex Smiths was
so successful and all these amazing people, because that's who
coach Winningham is and it's just that culture that he's built,
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the love factor, the respect factor, and like when I
say that we're truly a family, we are, Like there's
guys that are in the league that I never played with,
like a Caleb Lumber the tight end, and he's he's
a brother to me. Because that's the relationship and the
culture and the you know, faith based team that he
built is that everyone love everybody. And when you have
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that type of a culture and you don't want to
let your brother down, that's when this team is powerful.
And everyone's gonna say, oh, we never won the big games,
but we did win the big games because we put
dudes in the league number one. We put dudes in
the business field number two. And there are so many
people that played for this program and are so successful
in life because of Coach Winningham and what he does
for all of us from Mondays to Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You know, I was, I was asking what all this?
He played in the league for fourteen years? Is this
your eighth year, Garrett? That's hard to believe. Have you
been in eight years?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Now? Nine checks?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh smokes? Okay, nine years in the league?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I wonder, you know, because once upon a time when
I was in school with your uncle, and he and
I were in school together back in the nineties, you know,
Utah football, maybe one or two players per year would
either get draft or to get an invite, and there
weren't a ton of you players across the landscape. In
the NFL, there were some, but now it's very rare
to watch any game where there aren't multiple Utah football
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players involved in, you know, one team or the other
of the common what's the reputation in the NFL of
Kyle Whittingham and Utah football.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Number one is that they don't have to worry about
us because we're going to be respectful. We're going to
be reliable. We're going to show up every day to work.
We love football and we're good people in the communities
and we want to we want to push each other
in all aspects of life. You know, we're good fathers,
we're good husbands, we're just good men in general. And
you know when you when I got drafted. When I
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was getting drafted, I remember there's a lot of teams
that came up to me, was like, hey, there's a
reason why we brought you here for thirty man days
or brought you in for a formal interview at the
combine because of your coach and your coaching staff. And
I mean, I mean look at our team check it's
like coach Winham coach there for so many years, but
like the staff, I mean, he kept this staff together
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for so many years. And one thing was like, you
have to be consistent in football, Like you have to
have a consistent staff. You have to have to consistent
people and everyone's working for one goal. And that's obviously,
you know, winning big games, which we did win a
lot of big games. And you know there's a lot
of dudes that went onto the league. But like his
whole thing was he wanted to make you know good
men better. And that's truly what it was. And it
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was just that culture, man and being in the NFL,
like they know when they drafted Utah guys, they know
exactly what they're gonna get. They're gonna get a guy
that doesn't complain, that works hard, that loves football, that
just wants to be on the field and give it
everything he has, because that's how we were trained at Utah.
You know what I mean, Like when it's October or November,
there's other teams that aren't in pads. Oh, we're in
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pads and we're working like there's no there's no days off,
and it's the off season and it's red zone Fridays.
Like it sucks, check hits. It sucks what you do
in the off season, but it pays the price forward.
And what's so cool about being you know, a former
Utah Utah football players, like we pay that tribute forward
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for all the other kids that come through, all the
young men that come through. Like you know, when you
put that jersey on or you put that home on
out like its tradition and you know, all the guys
that played here went through the same thing, the same training,
running the heels with coach e on Saturday by Highland
High School. Like it's all these same things because it's
a family and we're all going to do this together.
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And obviously, like it's not that's guys that just play
in the NFL. It's guys that are businessmen. Like you're
going to get a Utah football player that's just trustworthy,
that wants to work hard, that are good people and
and loves football. And there's a reason why guys in
the league play longer than the average year, which is
three and a half years, Like guys are playing five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
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you know, fifteen years because of what Coach Woodingham has
done for us, the way that he's taught us, the
physicality that we bring, the mental game that we bring,
you know, also the spiritual game that we bring, because
that's just the coature we have and and it's just
it's just a really cool thing. Man. I Mean, I
obviously have talked to a lot of my old teammates
and and got to you know, I still talk to them,
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I still love I still have that because that's we
embrace each other, and that's what he's created, and that's
what the GMS and the coaches in the NFL level
also also see, and they love that factor. There's a
reason why Denver, ever since that I've been here, since
twenty seventeen, I have on average three to five guys
on my team every year that I played in college
because of that reason, and because you know, they know
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what we're going to get out of each other, and
they know exactly the type of person that they're going to.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Get, you know, you reference the spiritual side of the program. Garrett.
I want to dig into this for a moment because
it's kind of a It's an interesting thing where even
though you know, the University of Utah is in Salt
Lake City and we're in the state of Utah, where
there are you know, depending on where you live, the
majority of certain folks down south and up north, the
majority LDS church saalwt Lake, the number is a little
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bit different. But in the Utah football locker room, you
have coaches of all different faiths and you have players
of all different faiths, and it's not like BYU where
most of them are LDS. It's a little bit different now,
But what sort of leadership does Kyle provide that space
to encourage, you know, everybody just to kind of find
their own path and find their own way.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, I think I mean number one, I think that
what's so cool about University of Utahs. There's all different religions,
you right, there's there's Muslim, there's there's more, There's there's Catholic,
there's there's Christian, there's non dominational people, those people that
just believe in God but don't go to church. But
you know, we you know, Pastor Davies comes in, you know,
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he's he's a pastor in the Salt Lake City community
that comes up and talks to us, you know, and
then we have another minister that comes in that they
rotate and so we also, you know, we get the
Christian world, we get the Mormon world, we can we
get the Catholic world, and they rotate that. And it's
so cool because after practice, you know, we'll get together
in a corner. I don't know what they do now,
obviously they probably get in the defense or offensive team room,
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but we used to just do it on the field.
I think it was like every Wednesday or Thursday, we
would have a little session and you know, first some
weeks it would be ten to fifteen guys, and some
guys it would be fifty to sixty guys. It's just
such a neat experience, and you know, to have that
spiritual side, because I truly believe like we're a balanced
it's a balanced university, and especially a football team that
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you know, it's all about faith, family, and football. I mean,
that's really what it is. And and when you have
those three things that become your why and why you
do what you do. Obviously you build a culture that's
just strong and there's there's a reason why. You know,
there's two football programs in the entire country that I
think you know, build their programs off of that, and
it's coach Winningham at you know, University of Utah, and
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then there's obviously the program at University Iowa. And I
think both of those head coaches obviously you know, he's
still coaching in Iowa, but the one that you tah, Like,
if you talk about who's the toughest, all the gems
are gonna say, oh, you tell football players and Iowa
football players, And that's just the truth. And I think
it's because that that faith background and the love that
we have each other and they're very similar coaches in
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a lot of ways. Obviously, there's more utes in the
NFL that iowall admit that, but we don't have to
say that out too loud. But but that's that's what
it is, check it's and it's just it's truly just
a remarkable universe. Like I wish I was there longer
than just one semester. Obviously I did two years at
snow College, but I claim you talked through and through
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I bleed red and I love all those coaches so much,
and especially Coach Winning him and what he's given me
to be able to spring me forward to the man
I am today. And it's those it's those little things
that you that you miss, you know what I mean,
when you get to the league, as you miss those
moments of you know, there's a day where we can
get together and we can talk about God, we can
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talk about faith and and we're all there together and
it doesn't matter you know what race you are or
what religion you are, We're all coming together because we
all love God and we all love each other, and
we went what's best each other. And He's just always
there to help every single personnel and there's always a
different program. There's always something going on that each person,
like if you need a little bit of help with homework,
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or if it's religion, or if it's you know, my
family's hurting, Like there's somebody that always talk to and
I think it's just who he is as a person
to build that strong unity and that coach that we
have there.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
What about your specific positional group, Garrett, because obviously Kyle
is a believer that you got to win in the
trenches and that's what you taught football is known for.
And Jim Harding the offensive line coach, and of course
you are a left tackle, one of the best, by
the way, according to Pro Football Focus. Are you aware
that you're the best left tackle in the NFL? Did
you even know that?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I mean, I knew a little bit of it, but
I just, man, I just, I mean, obviously my team
talks to me about it, but really, man, I just
it's just one game at a time for me to
be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Sure, but like, what's the secret sauce with wit in Jim,
because you know, I'm Spencer Fano was about to be
a top ten pick. You you know, the best left
tackle in the country. So when it comes to the trenches,
where Kyle really believes football games are one, why did
you tough football develop such great offensive linemen?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, I think number one. Want to shout out to
all the old blocks if anyone's listening. But yeah, I
mean those are the two big reasons. I mean, I
mean there's three reasons why I came to Utah. Well,
obviously there's three coaches. You know, you got coach Woodingham,
you got coach Scalley, which is recruiting me, and then
coach Harting and they were just so consistent in all
my recruiting. And you know, I to be honest with
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I never really wanted to go to Utah, that was
really the truth. I wanted to go out of the state.
I wanted to go to Arkansas. I wanted to go
somewhere big, and it was just like the Lord was like, Nope,
this is where you're going. And there's a reason why
I went there. And it's the relationship factor that I
have with Coach Harding and just the small and things
that he knows what he does. And you know every
single person, you know, you got Cable Lomo, you got
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you got Spencer fun I mean, they're obviously the two
tackles that are going to get drafted in the in
the top you know, thirty picks or forty picks is
what they're saying, which is remarkable. And I think, you know,
I think there's a streak of Utah that every tackle
that has played for coach whitting for coach has been drafted.
I think, I'm I may be mistaken by I believe
(18:04):
that's still the ongoing trend. And it's just the it's
the culture that we build their number one, it's the
offense that we play in. It's it's the mental toughness
that they created us and they just let us be ourselves.
I mean, to be an offense attacker, you sort of
have to be a weirdo, you know what I mean,
Like you have to you have to you have to
be you have to be a little freaky because there's
so many good dns in this league and you have
(18:26):
to want to. And you know, obviously, Coach Harding is
a phenomenal coach and you know, I talked to him
on a regular basis. He means the world to me
and I can run anything by him on any little
thing of what he saw in the game or what
he sees that I can do better and he still
coaches me. And that's just the type of Manny is.
But it's definitely the family atmosphere. I think that's number
(18:46):
one what brings these guys in and brings it together.
But you know, he knows how to he knows how
to look at guys that are athletic and big and strong,
and you know, we may not be the biggest names,
which is you know, the biggest names, or you know
they got as they go to Alabama and Auburn and
whatever they want to say, the SEC has a good lineman,
but I mean, quite frankly, we produced some of the
best linemen in football over the last ten years. And
(19:08):
for Jordan Gross and all these guys, Zame Beatles, I mean,
all these guys that came in before us. I mean,
there's a reason why there's been so many big time
offensive lineman and defensive lineman in the league just because
of that competitive nature. He knows how to recruit people.
You know what's so unique about coach Hardening. He's a
math teacher. I don't know if you knew that. Check
(19:29):
It's like he was a math teacher and you know,
when you go to school, you're like, oh, I get
a math teacher, Like, what the heck is this? You
know what I mean? They just talk so calm and
direct and patience and loving and just want what's best
for you. And a teacher of the game. I mean,
that's literally what Harding is is like he's the teacher
of a game and you know, all a minute, like
when I was when I was coming out of the draft,
(19:51):
a lot of teams didn't think I was the smartest
and brightest, But what they didn't realize was I just
learned differently because I have a learning disability, and there's
day in and day out. I'd go to Coach Harding's
and I'd sit down with him, and he would teach
me x's and o's, and he would walk through plays
with me. He wanted what was best for me, and
you know, sometimes the guys just learned differently. But he
can put the most talented guy out there and make
(20:14):
him the smartest guy because of the teacher of the game.
And obviously when you get in our weight lifting program
and our you know, obviously our nutrition program, and then
with Coach Harding's you know, freaking nature mindset of knowing
how to attack people and knowing technique and knowing how
to do these things from Dan and Abbs to be
a good offensive lineman. I mean, there's a reason why
(20:34):
these guys are getting produced and Spencer's going to have
a phenomenal career, Caleb's going to have a phenomenal career,
and it's just so much fun to watch these young
guys just go and dominate. You know, Crumb in the middle,
Jarren Crumb had a phenomenal career, you know, obviously about
too injuries and came up and stepped up big at center.
And it's just so much fun to watch these young
boys to dominate the line of scrimmage. And obviously we
(20:55):
had what the best O line in college football in
my opinion, and it's it just speaks volume of the
program that we have and the atmosphere that coach Harding provides.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Spencer obviously is gone. Do you think Caleb is too?
Do you think he's ready, because we're really hoping that
he comes back for at least one more year.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, I mean I'm not I'm not quite sure. Obviously,
I spent a lot of time with him, and you know,
this whole agency thing. He's signed with my agency, which
I think I have the best agent in all of
in the NFL. And that's just the truth. And he'll
be the first one to say every year when he's
about to recruit kids, of who he wants to recruit,
the first team he goes to is the University Utah
because he knows the type of character that he's going
(21:34):
to get and you know, Caleb's Caleb's a phenomenal person.
I mean, obviously Spencer's going to go have a phenomenal
career in the NFL, and Caleb is, you know, your
prototypical left tackle. He's going to get the job done.
He's smooth with it, he's he's strong, he's agile, he
can bend. I mean, he protected you know, Dumber so
well this year. And it was just so much fun
to be able to connect with him and have that
(21:55):
relationship with him, and you know, we talked and obviously
I need to talk to him more. I've just been
so busy, but it's always good to talk to him
and catch up with him and be able to train
with him in the summer times when I'm back at
back at home, and hopefully we continue to do that.
Throughout the years.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Before we get to a really cool honor for you,
I did want to ask you a question about Morgan,
who is now sliding over a seat and taking over
as the head man. It feels like it's a consensus, Garrett,
among the alum that this is the right move. Why
what gives you the most confidence that Morgan can keep
this thing going.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It's because he's played in the system. He's been at
Utah for you know, his whole career. He played here,
he coached here. He knows what it takes. But his
he's so enthusiastic, you know what I mean, He's just
so kind. But he's gonna he's gonna run you, he's
gonna he's gonna push you, he's gonna push his limits.
But you know, this day and age, you need somebody
(22:48):
to come in and and have that culture in that
mindset of of taking young men and turning them in
the man. And you know this, You know, these younger
generation kids, they're a little bit different than when I
when we went to school, you know what I mean
checking say, a little bit just different with how many
technology and things like that that nature and coach Scaley
does a phenomenal job of knowing who to talk to
and who to bring in. Obviously, he is one of
(23:09):
the best defenses in college football. And it's been like that.
And you know, obviously I don't know what it is,
but Utah football just loves defensive minded coaches, from Herbert
Mayer to Coach Woodingham to you know, Ron McBride to
coach a Coach Meyer, Right is that Ron? And then
coach Woodingham and now Scalley. I mean, obviously it's just
defensive minded people. And uh, it's just that mental toughness
(23:31):
that he has, that direct has, the relationship back that
he has, the loving atmosphere. It's like having Coach Woodingham
all over again. It's just a two point zero version
of him and and and more you know, Yippida and
and and and that's really the difference. I mean, I
don't think we'll see a slight not even a slight
drop off. I think it's just going to continue to
(23:51):
go forward, and it's going to move for our program.
You know, obviously it's sad to let Wooding him go
and you know, him to go live his life, but
he's been doing it for a long time and I'm
I'm excited to see what Skaaly can do. Obviously, you
know I have a great relationship with him with the
whole Sigma Kai thing through my uncle, So that was
pretty cool to be able to learn about that when
I was up there. But I love him. I think
(24:12):
the word of him comes from a great family, and
I'm so excited to see what you can do for
this program.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Your uncle's gonna love that you dropped the Sigma Kai there, Garrett.
You know your uncle's gonna love that. Hey, before I
set you loose, not only are you elite what you
do on the field, you're very elite on what you
give back off the field. And you are the Broncos
nominee for the Walter Payton Man of the Year. Number one.
Congrat young man, keep making us proud. Number two. How
(24:38):
can our listeners help you?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, I appreciate as a tremendous honor to be able
to repres the Broncos organization to be, you know, a
participate in this Man the Year. You know it's my
second the nominee. And you know I built my foundation.
I started in twenty seventeen and I've started to grow
obviously started in the Utah and now I'm starting to
get over here in Denver, but I help underprivileged kids
(25:02):
to be able to get back to there, to give
them a life that you know, that I never lived
when I was younger, and to be able to provide
for them and to give them if it's mentor, if
it's mentoring, if it's counseling, if it's you know, spiritual, physical,
whatever it is about helping them find their why in
life and why we do what we do, and why
we want to wake up and why we want to
(25:22):
go be successful. And obviously we're remodeling some pods right
now at the Marvin Foot Center, which is the correctional
facility right by my facility here in dub Valley in Colorado,
and I'm basically remodeling all six pods with new paint,
new carpet, new furniture, a sentry wall, some TVs, some
more technology for them to connect with their mentors so
(25:44):
they're not just feeling like they're locked up and nobody
cares about them. My mentor over there mentored over two
hundred youth and that correctional facility also, so we're remodeling
that area. And then also you know, my son was
diagnosed with the practice of speech. We a launched the
first ever. It's called B and B so it's be
Orman Bulls Training Center for kids with a practicier. We're
(26:05):
going to train specialize special speech teachers to be able
to have them specialize in a practice of speech, to
be able to help kids that are needed. My son
was diagnosed in twenty twenty one Kingston, So the curriculum
is going to be called I Am king which is
his name for sure, and we'll be able to get
back to the communities here. It's the first one ever
in the entire world to be able to train these
(26:27):
people with the most renowned speech therapist, Jennie b Orm.
Never knew that when I signed my second contract when
my son was diagnosed, that she was going to be
twenty minutes away from my house. So God works the
mysterious ways. But I knew this was something that I
wanted to do. I wanted to open up a school
and training center to be able to provide kids for
(26:47):
the things that they need. There's so many amazing things
that we have in store that we want to do
and continue to make this as big. We have our
first training coming up in this June. We just opened
up in August right before the season start, and then
we're just going through all the board members and being
able to come up with the curriculum, and there's just
a lot of work we're doing. So Number one, you
(27:08):
can vote for me for for Pro Bowl. You can
also vote for me for a Walta Man of the
Year because there's so many different, you know, things that
you guys can do for me. I'm also doing a
twelve day giving on my on my Twitter twelve days
of giving for Christmas. So today's I think we have
a signed jersey by me, and then there's some other
things throughout the week. So I appreciate that all my
fans and all the love that I have for Utah.
(27:31):
You know, it's a it's an honest to be able
to represent the state and to be able to come
over here and represent in the NFL. So I'm grateful
for all you guys and the love that I have
for all you guys.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Well, don Garrett, like I said, keep making us proud.
I appreciate the time and go Broncos.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Okay, yeah, mich love brother, talk to you soon, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Garrett Bowles one of the best to ever do it
at the University of Utah first round pick for the
Denver Broncos back in twenty seventeen, and according to Pro
Football Focus, we just had the best left tackle in
the NFL. On did you No? I didn't think so.
Great stuff from Garrett. He is the Broncos Man of
the Year nominee as far as the Walter Paide Man
(28:10):
of the Year. So go find him on social media
and then he's given away an autograph Jersey. I sent
out the tweet on my Twitter page. He's got an
Instagram post as well. So really appreciate Garrett stopped and
by today, and really appreciate the shout out to siem
Ma Kay that apparently my producer just wasn't really a fan.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Of you guys do your thing.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Well, I'm just saying, when are you going to accept
that we run the city?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Uh, yeah, I guess you do kind of Well, shout
out Morgan Garrett definitely more now.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Garrett's uncle McKinley, who helped us get him on the
show today A proud I believe he was the pro
con which is vice president when I was a pledge.
So you guys were there together, Yeah, we were, and
Morgan was there a few years after US Garret. How
about Garrett Bowls the best left tackle in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
D something else he has been and listen, he showed
flashes of what he would be at the University of Utah.
He had some of those those plays where it looked
like the blind side right where he was just blowing
over other players in my manhandling guys at the Division
IE level. You could see, oh, there's some potential here,
(29:19):
but Garrett was not like ready to play the position
at a pro level. The growth that he's made since
he stepped foot on campus, that potential coming to fruition,
shout out Jim Harding and the co there, and then
to get to Denver and just keep getting better, better
and better. It says a lot about his work ethic,
(29:40):
phenomenal football player.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I want a sweet kid. I mean, if you're not
familiar familiar, excuse me with his story, I would encourage
you to look into it. Has overcome a ton to
literally be a master at his craft. Okay, well, I
guess if it's not busy enough. On a Friday, breaking
news from Ross Dellinger, the Big twelve is nearing a
deal with Redbird and Weatherford Capital for a cash infusion
(30:03):
as much as five hundred million schools, as well as
striking a strategic investment partnership with the firms at the
league officials. Redbird was the former private equity firm that
the OTRO guys left to start their firm. So, as
if we weren't busy enough, there's some more breaking news
on a Friday before we catch a break. Our friends
(30:23):
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