'Do the impossible': Gable Steveson tries to crack Bills' roster

Published: Jun 11, 2024 Duration: 00:02:11 Category: News & Politics

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>> Your watching WROC Builds back at work this week practicing for the final time until they had to. >> Saint John Fisher for training camp. Exciting sports director. That Brown has more on the newest member of the team and how he's adjusting to playing football for the very first time. >> Gable Stevenson said he was just moving boxes when he got a phone call from the bills wondering if the Olympic gold medal wrestler wanted to try football wide. Steve, Yes, good impossible. Nobody gets to ever have this opportunity. And this is definitely unicorn situation. But every day I put in my always show up. >> With gratitude with honor with with anything that these guys want me to do. I would do it without a question and that's just the resting way. The first time Steve's than ever in his life put on football cleats was to try out for the bill's former high-school wrestling champ. Sean McDermott has been using wrestling terms to explain football. >> But even learning a playbook is a steep climb. dressing we don't have. >> We don't have 10 different direction to go in. And here you've got to read a pass. You got to reaching a basin. I and all those all those funky. Where is that? A lot of people don't know. But if you football-related, you know, so I came in here just a blank slate and ready to learn. a week in and I feel like I'm light years ahead the big believer in in wrestlers. >> And what skills you you develop in wrestling and how it can transfer to being a really good football especially among among the offensive line defensive line position, groups. Having not played football ever, not even in high school that's a little bit different. That's a little bit And so there's. There's more work to be Said it for his new venture. I want to get Buffalo my everything. I know the fans out there. >> We're going to care about this moment and all the rest. fans going to care about this moment. And I just want to be that person that, hey, here's here's a guy's. Never done it. And he's going to do it. And I believe myself, even though Steve's son wore headgear as a wrestler, he said the biggest football culture shock has been wearing a helmet. I didn't know was so heavy. Steve's and said they told me to get down to stance. I said I can't lift my head up. He does say now he has, though finally gotten used to it.

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