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Alaina GetzenbergESPN
BUFFALO, N.Y. — First, they touch pinkie and index fingers. Then they lock hands, swipe through each other’s arms, tap each other’s backs, bring their arms down to put their finger guns into air holsters and, finally, shoot the guns in the air.
Then Stefon Diggs blows smoke from Josh Allen’s finger gun.
The handshake between the Buffalo Bills quarterback and his No. 1 wide receiver has adapted over time. The teammates do it so quickly and instinctually at this point that it can be hard to break down what’s actually happening. The taps on the back symbolize that they always have each other’s backs.
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— Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) August 21, 2021
It’s one of Allen’s more elaborate handshakes he has with his teammates. And the fourth-year quarterback has had oh, so many since he first came into the league in 2018.
He has one for every offensive teammate and goes through them at least once before games, and he surely will again before Sunday’s divisional-round matchup at the Kansas City Chiefs (6:30 p.m. ET, CBS). But Allen’s belief that handshakes bring teammates closer together and establish connections exemplifies several of the quarterback’s hallmarks: his role as a leader that he has stepped into even further this season, impressive memory skills and that finger gun-wagging personality.
“This is a big, goofy-ass dude at quarterback,” Buffalo safety Jordan Poyer said to teammate Levi Wallace while miked up on the sideline of Saturday’s wild-card playoff win versus the New England Patriots. “They have zero idea how goofy he is … I love him to death.”
The necessary skill set
Before practice begins, Allen goes around the huddle and does his “antics” with the offensive starters, as tight end Dawson Knox describes it. Left side of the line to the right, wide receivers and running backs. They embody the fun-loving way some teammates view him, with…
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