Woe is the Buffalo Bills offense and wholy mackerel is the secondary good again this season.

Heading into the 2019 bye week, the Bills are 3-7 and an unlikely string of wins is the only hope they have to repeat as playoff contenders. That shouldn’t take away from their secondary’s successes.

Like most teams the Bills have had a game or two of struggles. Sometimes, you’re just out-schemed. Games like the Colts and Ravens just sort of… happen. There’s plenty of numbers that tell the whole story, though.

The Bills’ defense ranks as the No. 1 overall unit in the NFL (302.2 yards per game). That’s helped heavily by their secondary only allowing 202.4 yards per game. Making matters more impressive is the list of QBs that the team has faced this year.

Prior to facing Josh McCown last week, the Bills have faced Joe Flacco, Phillip Rivers, Kirk Cousins, Aaron Rodgers, Marcus Mariota, Deshaun Watson, Andrew Luck, Tom Brady and Mitchell Trubisky. In the grouping is more than one top-five pick and more than one future Hall of Famer.

One downfall of the Bills’ secondary so far this year is their lack of turnovers. Having said that, see the list one paragraph earlier, that’s quite the list of opponents who don’t make mistakes. Through 10 games, only Jordan Poyer has multiple interceptions to his name. Fellow safety Micah Hyde only has one, and he just got it last week against the Jets.

Still, the duo’s been a rock solid unit once again this year. The two just mesh together and in terms of the offense wasting successes of the defense, Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott needs to pray he can get the offense revamped by 2019 so he doesn’t waste this pair. That chemistry is what they do best.

Since last season, Pro Football Focus has rated Hyde and Poyer as the third-best safety and fourth-best coverage safeties in the entire NFL.

But the true star in the making for Buffalo is at cornerback with Tre’Davious White.