The Buffalo Bills have done a phenomenal job limiting long pass plays over the last four seasons. The Bills are consistently in the top-third of the league in fewest passing plays of 20-plus and forty-plus yards allowed, and they even led the league in both categories during the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
Much of this is due to fantastic performances by the team’s top two safeties. Sure, some of it is scheme-specific, but at the end of the day, it’s players executing a scheme that make it work. Thanks to Buffalo’s elite safeties, the team has been able to maintain one of the league’s better pass defenses since head coach Sean McDermott arrived.