JP and BMitch discuss Josh Conerly Jr.'s character with Oregon Ducks beat writer James Crepea.
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00:00This team seem to want to get a lot of character guys.
00:03What type of person is he?
00:06Top of the list.
00:08And, look, I'm not a fan.
00:09I'm not from here.
00:10I didn't go to school here.
00:12I'm not some homer at all.
00:14No, this is a guy who you hear from everybody in the room.
00:18You hear from every coach.
00:19You hear from every teammate about.
00:21You hear things like cerebral from an offensive lineman.
00:24You hear about how much extra time he's spending.
00:26You hear from the offensive coordinator here, Will Stein, and Dan Lanning,
00:29that Josh could play almost any position athletically gifted enough
00:34to where he could play almost any position on the field.
00:36And the OC says even quarterback, they're not kidding.
00:39By way of understanding of the offense, yeah, like he spends that much more time.
00:46He cares to know that much more about everything that's going on,
00:50not just his blocking assignment.
00:52And he can say, well, he overloads himself.
00:54No, no, no.
00:55He wants to understand the game at that level.
00:58He cares about it at that level.
01:01He cares about his craft at that level.
01:03And then he added the character bits and all the rest.
01:06Now this is, like I say, from all accounts, really an upstanding young man
01:10and really an upstanding football player.
01:12Wow.
01:13All right.
01:13This is a serious endorsement for this young man.
01:18Also super durable, right?
01:20Hasn't missed a game in three years?
01:22Yeah.
01:23Yeah.
01:24Like I say, now it helps to be his size, too.
01:26Sure.
01:27Yeah, sure.
01:28He's usually the one inflicting the pain and the damage.
01:31But, yeah, or walling it off from two Heisman finalists quarterbacks.
01:35That helps.
01:36But, yeah, now he's been, like I say, they created a personnel package for him
01:40as a freshman, got him out there a whole bunch when they could.
01:43And for that matter, not just, like I mentioned, the touchdown catch,
01:45which was amusing, but also ran him out there as a two-point conversion
01:48as a running back.
01:49Wow.
01:50And had him, you know, which, again, hard to stop a man that size
01:53in short yardage.
01:55So it wasn't quite the push-push, but, you know,
01:58they could have to come up with another name for it.
01:59But, yeah, they found out different ways to get him the ball.
02:03And it worked.
02:05You know, it worked out well.
02:06So, no, like I say, really athletically gifted.
02:09And, look, I'm not going to say raw by any stretch of the imagination
02:12as a lineman, but does he still have room to grow?
02:15Absolutely.
02:16And I know everybody is going to way freak out about the one rep
02:21at the Senior Bowl at right tackle against the nation's leader in sacks.
02:24It was his first rep at right tackle, not just of the day,
02:27I think in years, because he was a left tackle here.
02:32And I know, by the way, like one rep later,
02:34then he stonewalled Mike Green.
02:35That's good.