Mike Maher Attempts The Josh Conerly Challenge
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 2 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm not sure if you guys are all aware of the viral bit that was sweeping the DMV yesterday. |
| 0:06.9 | The Josh Connerly Jr. challenge that the commander's posted it. |
| 0:11.5 | He posted it. We saw it right around when he was drafted. |
| 0:14.4 | So Josh Connerly is the first round pick of the commanders out of Oregon. |
| 0:18.0 | He's a super freak athlete, tackle. |
| 0:23.4 | Probably going to start a right tackle as a rookie. |
| 0:24.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.9 | So there's a video of him where he starts on his knees and then unassisted by his arms or anything with no support. |
| 0:36.1 | He just flexes off of his knees up into his stance and |
| 0:41.3 | then he backpedals like he's like he's blocking somebody. Right. So he jumps off of his knees |
| 0:45.9 | to his feet. He just jumps off of his knees straight to his feet in one fluid motion. As big as he is, |
| 0:50.2 | that's crazy. It's crazy. Yeah. And a bunch of people are, you know, recreating it. Some are |
| 0:56.2 | successful, some or not. I saw J.P. Finley do it. J.P. Finley did it. It was kind of impressive. |
| 1:00.8 | I thought he did it. I thought he executed it. He, he downplayed it, but I thought it even try. Jamie Finley's in his, I think, early 40s. Like, that's a pretty good feat. |
| 1:12.1 | And I'll be honest, I tried it last night after I saw my daughter do it. |
| 1:15.7 | Now, she's 23. |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.7 | And she works out a lot. |
| 1:20.0 | So she did it pretty easily. |
| 1:21.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.0 | I literally, I was frozen. |
| 1:24.5 | I couldn't, I really couldn't even attempt. |
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