USA TODAY’s Touchdown Wire has recognized the NFL’s five best offensive line performances of the NFL’s Week 7 action, and the Miami Dolphins surprisingly found themselves on the list. The Dolphins are ranked as the league’s third-best offensive line showing of the week, thanks to their collective effort to physically push around the Buffalo Bills defense, which has one of the more talented defensive front sevens in all of football.

Yes, the Bills would go on to win the game, 31-21. But a returned onside kick for a touchdown skewed just how close this game was, an effort in which the Dolphins dominated for the first 40 minutes of the contest.

Here’s what Rick Suter of Touchdown Wire had to say about Miami’s offensive line effort.

The winless (Dolphins) rolled into Buffalo, facing a Bills defense that’s one of the best in the league — third-best passing defense, fifth-best against the run and 3rd overall. Considering those numbers, what the Dolphins almost pulled off on Sunday was even more impressive. True, there was no FitzMagic. But a day where the Harvard grad went 23-of-35 for 282, with one touchdown and one pick, while the running game was solid, totaling 109 yards on the ground with another two touchdowns? And, again, this is the Dolphins (offensive line): Shaq Calhoun, Evan Boehm, Jesse Davis, J’Marcus Webb and Michael Deiter.

Indeed, so many moving parts along the line has left the Dolphins challenged, but one has to be encouraged in watching their continued effort — getting some push up front in the run game against Washington is one thing, seeing it materialize against a collective group like Buffalo’s is something else entirely.

Many will scoff or chuckle at the notion that this Dolphins’ offensive line was among the best in the NFL, even if just for a week. But make no mistake, the Dolphins got after Buffalo — and the football world seemed to take note.