Bills QB Josh Allen Says He Is Trying To Think Less And Do More

The Buffalo Bills have a habit of not getting too excited about victories or depressed about defeats. Josh Allen, the quarterback, highlights this in his postgame analysis in the locker room following victories. In Week 4, following a 48-20 victory against the Dolphins, he said, “We stay right [in the middle].”

On Tuesday, though, Allen said that he’s attempting to be quiet during games in front of the team’s Thursday game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8:15 p.m. ET, Prime Video).

Bills QB Josh Allen Says He Is Trying To Think Less And Do More

Allen stated on Tuesday, “I feel like I perform better that way. The last few weeks, really after Week 2, I’ve been trying to find a zone where I get myself into throughout the game, try to stay as low as possible.”

Nothing wrong with that. However, why is keeping low necessary?

“Just trying to stay in this state called ‘low positive,’ where your energy is not super high, and you’re allowing your mind to think and be free and just stay on top of everything, because obviously as the quarterback, there is a lot of things going through our mind,” Allen explained. “So, if I can limit myself and my energy and my heart rate, I felt like I can maybe think a little bit more.”

And then in the next breath, this:

“But who knows,” Allen added, “maybe I need to think a little bit less and just play football.”

“Maybe I’ve got to be more upbeat and be a voice and be a little bit more loud – let my emotions show a little bit more,” Allen said. “Whether I do that Thursday or not, I guess, will come with the execution of it, because obviously, everybody is having more fun when you’re winning football games and performing well. So, that’s first and foremost. We’ve got to go out there and execute. I think execution breeds energy.”

“It’s something that I thought about for a while,” Allen said. “And I did talk to somebody externally, and I’m just trying to try to get that feeling of when I feel like I perform my best.

“And, you know, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But again, I got to figure it out, what it is, and will myself to be in that best mindset, mentality, that I can be to help this team.”

 

 

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