If you’re expecting the Buffalo Bills to buy into the proverbial hype that’s plagued their fans every time the team has started the season red-hot in recent years, you’re wasting your time. It just won’t happen.

First-year head coach Sean McDermott and his band of retreated athletes have more motivation and drive than Buffalo teams of past. They’d rather talk about the process than playoffs and the results are coming quickly in Western New York.

You can probably count the number of Super Bowl rings within their locker room on one hand, but this team is hungry.

Naturally, Bills fans are getting a bit anxious, as their team currently has a record of 3-1. They’ve been here before. In fact, they were just here last year. Buffalo started off 4-2 in the 2016 season. They went on to lose seven of their next ten games before finishing the season with no head coach or hope for the future.

So what makes this year any different? Many thought that the Bills were a shoe-in for the top pick in the 2018 NFL Draft before the season started, so why should fans be thinking about the playoffs after four games? Safety Micah Hyde talked about what makes this year’s Buffalo team special during his recent appearance on The Jim Rome Show.

“We all play with a chip on our shoulder, just because we have been overlooked,” Hyde told The Jim Rome Show. “The coaches that are coaching us have been fired before. It’s just a bunch of guys that have a chip on their shoulders, that it’s just another opportunity to get it done and that’s exactly what we are trying to do. It’s fueling us every single day.”

Maybe this is a different Bills team. Maybe this team is so hungry that it can work.

Hyde reiterated what coach Sean McDermott has preached to his team and the media since taking the coaching job, about winning the week and finding any way to win.

“Were just a bunch of misfits that came here to Buffalo. We’re trying to have one common goal, and that’s win,” Hyde said. “Win throughout the week, and then come Sunday, find any way we can to get a win.”

The Bills have done just that. Sitting atop the AFC East, they’ve battled through the past two games to find a win when no one expected them to. The team scored just three measly points against the Carolina Panthers in Week 2, but they rallied back and beat the Denver Broncos at home and then went on the road and rattled Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons in back-to-back weeks, an incredible feat in the NFL.

Yet, there are still non-believers out there. The 1-3 Cincinnati Bengals, who won their first game of the season against the Cleveland Browns in Week 4, are actually favored to beat Buffalo heading into their Week 5 matchup.

Hyde commented on playing the underdog role and how it’s just what he and the team wants.

“We know what’s going on outside, we know we’re not naïve,” Hyde said. “We know we’re going to be underdogs, and people are saying sooner or later the Buffalo Bills are going to tank…A lot of people are counting us out, and we love that way. We’re the underdogs going into each and every game and we wouldn’t want to have it any other way.”

Whether or not you uttered the words tank before the season, most fans didn’t expect this.

What matters now is not whether or not you believe the hype about the Bills, it’s whether this team can sustain its style of play. Buffalo runs the ball heavily, even without success, and bank on their defense holding strong. It’s a strategy that only the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers saw success with and that success was limited by the latter.

The Bills will face off with the Bengals in Cincinnati this weekend before they enter their bye week.