The Buffalo Bills have been knocking on the door of a Super Bowl for years. They keep getting close. They keep falling short. And the guy carrying the weight of that entire franchise, Josh Allen, just admitted something that probably doesn’t surprise anyone who watches him play: he can’t stop thinking about football.
Not even with a new baby at home.
Allen and his wife, actress Hailee Steinfeld, welcomed their first child this offseason. You’d think that might be enough to get his mind off the game for a few weeks. But no.
“I don’t think my brain stops thinking football, to be honest,” Allen said, via the NFL Network. “You try to get away and get it off it as much as you can and really enjoy your time off, but I’m constantly thinking about it, constantly thinking about how I can be better.”
He sounds like a guy who’s still pissed about how last season ended. And he should be.
The Bills marched into the playoffs as a legitimate contender, only to get bounced in the divisional round by the Denver Broncos. Allen was the main reason they lost. He turned the ball over multiple times in costly spots. That kind of loss sticks with a quarterback. It clearly has.
Allen is already counting down the days until he can get back to work. Reporting day is July 28. He said he’s excited to get things in full swing again. That’s 10 months of thinking about football, working out, studying film, and trying to find another gear after already turning himself from a raw college prospect into one of the elite quarterbacks in the league.
It’s hard to overstate how far he’s come. Allen was a project coming out of Wyoming. Big arm, shaky accuracy, lots of questions. Now he’s the guy who singlehandedly dragged the Bills back into contention and has them in the conversation every single year. But that next step, winning the whole thing, remains elusive.
The Bills open the regular season on September 13. They’ll be healthy, motivated, and led by a quarterback who literally cannot stop thinking about the game. That might be exactly what they need.
Or it might be the kind of pressure that crushes a guy. Either way, Allen seems fine with it. He wouldn’t have it any other way.
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