Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen uses offseason to focus on mechanics

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Heading into his seventh year in the NFL, Bills quarterback Josh Allen is still working on perfecting his mechanics.

“It takes a long time to become as mechanically efficient as possible,” Allen said. “Meeting with Chris Hess who came here, he owns Biometrek, he’s just digitally mapping our throwing motions right now and just seeing what we can tighten up and improve and keep that in mind, so when we do it our individual job, when we were inside the building, making sure that we do everything that we need to do and that I need to do, to be as clean as possible.

Allen stressed the importance of consistency during Bill’s offseason training and made it clear that the work he’s doing now isn’t about completely changing his throwing motion, but rather just refining 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. “I extend with my arm and a little with my stride. So I’m just trying to clean this up. Any time you go through something like this, sometimes you’ll feel really good, sometimes it won’t feel really good. It’s like changing your golf swing, as long as you trust it and continue to work at it every day, the results will come.

Allen is now looking for results similar to his normal throwing motion after adjusting and playing with a shoulder injury during the back half of last season.

“A few little adjustments, whether it’s the shoulder, the elbow, whatever it is, it changes the way you throw it a little bit because your body protects itself from the pain,” Allen said. “So, I’m making sure that I’m 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, you just have to trust what the data at the moment says and try to feel it above all else.

Allen knows that feeling pretty well at this point in his career after four straight 4,000-yard passing seasons, and yet his standards remain the same.

“There are inefficiencies that every quarterback can find,” Allen said. “Show me the perfect throw and I’ll probably tell you there’s something wrong.” So just make sure I check the dots, cross my T’s and dot my I’s.”

Allen and his teammates now spend the next five weeks honing their skills in preparation for training camp at St. John Fisher University which begins July 24.