ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Heading into his seventh year in the NFL, Bills quarterback Josh Allen is still working on perfecting his mechanics.
“Big time on just mechanically getting as efficient as possible,” Allen said. “Meeting with Chris Hess who has been here, he owns Biometrek, just digitally mapping our throwing motions right now and just seeing what we can tighten up on and improve on and just having that in the back of our minds so when we're doing our individual work, when were inside the building, making sure that we’re doing everything that we need to do and I need to do to, to be as clean as possible.”
Allen emphasized the importance of consistency during the Bill's offseason training and clarified that the work he is doing now isn’t to completely change his throwing motion, but rather just to refine it.
“I wouldn't call it a complete overhaul of my throwing motion, but definitely some things to work on and clean up,” Allen said. “Getting long with my arm and a little bit with my stride. So just trying to clean that up. Anytime you go through something like that, sometimes it's going to feel really good, sometimes it's not gonna feel really good. It's just like changing your swing in golf, as long as you're trusting in it and you keep working on it each and every day, results will come.”
Allen is now looking for results similar to his normal throwing motion after adjusting and playing with a shoulder injury through the back half of last season.
“A couple little tweaks whether it was in the shoulder, the elbow, whatever it was, it changes how you throw it just a little bit because your body is shielding itself from pain,” Allen said. “So making sure that I'm just kind of getting back to how I'm supposed to throw and what my body is capable of doing. Sometimes it takes a little longer, sometimes it doesn't, so again just trusting what the data is saying right now and just trying to feel it above all else.”
That feeling, Allen knows pretty well at this point in his career coming off four consecutive 4,000-yard passing seasons, and yet his standards remain the same.
“There’s inefficiencies that every quarterback can find,” Allen said. “You show me the perfect throw and I'll tell you something wrong with it probably. So just making sure that I'm checking the dots and crossing the t’s and dotting the I’s there.”
Allen and his teammates are now spending the next five weeks refining their skills for training camp at St. John Fisher University starting on July 24.
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