There’s nowhere for Garett Bolles to hide. Every­where the big offen­sive tack­le turns, he’s under siege.

Bron­co­ma­ni­acs lusti­ly boo him. The zebras throw penal­ty flags at him out of habit. John Elway doesn’t trust him enough to show Bolles the money.

Amid all the tur­moil in Bolles’ pro­fes­sion­al life, the team is attempt­ing the most del­i­cate oper­a­tion of this coro­n­avirus-com­pressed train­ing camp.

The Bron­cos are try­ing to trans­plant the brain of Hall of Famer Mike Mun­chak into the body of Bolles.

If Den­ver wants to make the play­offs, fail­ure is not an option for a bal­ly­hooed offen­sive line coach work­ing with a stu­dent who has demon­strat­ed improve­ment, yet can be frus­trat­ing­ly slow on the uptick with tough concepts.

“A work in progress,” said coach Vic Fan­gio, describ­ing a left tack­le the Bron­cos don’t com­plete­ly trust but des­per­ate­ly need to succeed.

Hey, every­body from Uncle Vic to quar­ter­back Drew Lock hopes for the best. But I fear this stress­ful sit­u­a­tion might cause Bolles to do what he does best: Blow a gasket.

Oh, there’s no doubt Bolles means well. His com­pet­i­tive streak and pas­sion for pro­tect­ing the quarterback’s blind side are good attrib­ut­es for any left tackle.

The tricky issue for Dr. Mun­chak, how­ev­er, is find­ing a way to cur­tail meat­head mis­takes that have caused Bron­cos Coun­try to hate on Bolles. Some­where inside the tackle’s mas­sive, 305-pound frame is a faulty reg­u­la­tor for his emo­tions. When Bolles mess­es up, we’ve seen his blood roil, caus­ing him to com­pound a blown assign­ment with a dumb penalty.

So on Thurs­day I asked Bolles a ques­tion nag­ging me for a long time: Does he allow emo­tions to get the best of him on the foot­ball field?

“All off­sea­son I took it seri­ous­ly to real­ly work on my men­tal game and do what­ev­er I can to make myself men­tal­ly ready. When some­thing hap­pens, I can’t phys­i­cal­ly take that back. If it hap­pens, I have to let it go and move on to the next play,” Bolles replied dur­ing a Zoom ses­sion with local reporters that some­times felt more like a trip to the principal’s office.

While not tak­ing offense, Bolles adamant­ly dis­agreed with my sug­ges­tion he’s a hot­head who lets uncon­trolled emo­tion defeat him.

“I’m a very emo­tion­al guy. I play with a pas­sion. That’s some­thing that I think is a huge attribute for me. I think that’s why the Bron­cos draft­ed me, because I have that ener­gy,” Bolles said. “I don’t want to say it got the best of me, because I don’t believe that’s true. There are things that hap­pen on the foot­ball field that I can’t con­trol. I just have to con­tin­ue to get bet­ter, work bet­ter, work on my tech­nique, make sure that my hands are in the right, prop­er areas so I don’t get called on hold­ing and things like that.”

The cat­calls won’t stop until the penal­ty flags stop fly­ing. Tune out the noise? Impos­si­ble. Bolles hears Bron­cos Coun­try jeer him. Loud and clear.

“Nobody wants to get booed,” Bolles said.

Bolles has been penal­ized so often dur­ing three pro sea­sons the name above No. 72 on his jer­sey could be changed to Holding.

“It’s unac­cept­able the way I played,” said Bolles, tak­ing full responsibility.

Dur­ing the first eight games of 2019, my col­league Ryan O’Halloran reviewed the tape and booked Bolles as the guilty par­ty for five sacks, two knock­downs and eight QB pres­sures, not to men­tion nine penal­ties, includ­ing four that were enforced.

In the final eight games, his mess-ups were far less fre­quent: no sacks, three knock­downs and two pres­sures. Bolles, how­ev­er, might’ve received less cred­it than he deserved dur­ing the sec­ond half of last sea­son because he com­mit­ted eight of those annoy­ing penal­ties that have defined his career and caused end­less cack­ling by the boo-birds.

There’s no doubt his block­ing grades did improve in 2019, espe­cial­ly after a young and mobile Lock took over as the start­ing quar­ter­back. But the bot­tom line in a league where mon­ey talks? He wasn’t impres­sive enough for Elway and the front office brain­trust to pick up the fifth-year option on Bolles’ rook­ie contract.

As it now stands, Bolles is sched­uled to count $3.5 mil­lion against the team’s salary cap in 2020 and become a free agent next March.

“I can’t dic­tate what Mr. Elway and those guys up front do,” said Bolles, the 20th over­all selec­tion in the 2017 NFL draft. “What I can dic­tate is how I play on the foot­ball field.”

In appre­ci­a­tion for mak­ing the Pro Bowl nine times as a guard with the Hous­ton Oil­ers, Mun­chak was pre­sent­ed with a gold jack­et by the Pro Foot­ball Hall of Fame in 2001.

If he can save Bolles from being a first-round bust, Mun­chak should be invit­ed back to Can­ton, Ohio, on the 20th anniver­sary of his induc­tion to be award­ed a sec­ond gold jack­et, keys to the city and a procla­ma­tion decree­ing him may­or for life.