Before games, Quay Walker meditates. Between series, he collects his thoughts with a towel over his head. Between plays, Walker looks at a calming word written on his gloves.

It’s all part of the new-and-improved mental outlook for the Green Bay Packers’ second-year linebacker.

“Just calms me down and puts me in a mind state where I’m calm and not really thinking about anything [negative],” Walker explained on Friday, two days before facing the New Orleans Saints at Lambeau Field.

“But, for me, it’s been working. And the days I don’t do it are the days you pretty much can tell. Some days when I don’t do it, Ja can say, ‘Quay, I can tell you didn’t meditate today.’ And I can do the same with him. But that’s about it. Just trusting it and sticking with it.”