The Buffalo Bills special teams units paved the way to their 37-34 overtime victory over the Los Angeles Rams on Monday night. With struggles both offensively and defensively at different points in the win, the team relied heavily on special teams to make game-changing plays in the clutch.

Two plays in particular stand above the rest as Buffalo improved to 4-1 on the season.

Kicker Tyler Bass came away with the game-winning field goal to end overtime, being called upon for a 45-yarder from the left hash. The 29-year-old was calm, cool and collected under the primetime lights, nailing the kick right down the middle to give his squad the walkoff victory.

"Just going out there and just seeing your routine and trusting your process and seeing things executed, man, it's pretty cool," Bass said. "… You appreciate it. You appreciate the opportunity, and you just try to make the most of it."

"It's awesome. I mean, that's who T-Bass is," QB Josh Allen said. "We trust him implicitly. Yeah, go out there and drill a kick to win a game. It feels pretty good."

The game-winning kick came on a second-down play from the Rams' 27-yard line just after the two-minute warning. Head coach Joe Brady elected not to run any more plays than he deemed necessary, trusting that his kicker was ready for the moment.

"The confidence I had in Bass is like, 'Hey, look, 45-yard line, he's going to make this kick,'" Brady said. "Does that make it the right decision? Not necessarily. You can't judge the quality of a decision by the result, but through the conversations that we had both on the field, having a conversation with Josh and the coaching staff, we felt like that was the best thing for us to do and had confidence in him to go make it. And fortunately, he did."

Bass was indeed up to the challenge, knocking down the first overtime game-winning kick of his seven-year career with ease.

"I was just super present. Whenever coach says, 'Hey, it's time.' It's time… It doesn't matter, first down or fourth down, I just go out there, do my process and go from there," he said.

In the third quarter, Bass missed a 35-yard extra point after a false start penalty moved him back. Despite the miss, Brady was confident his kicker would put it behind him.

"I looked at T-Bass, and I was like, 'Go do your thing.' And I wasn't going to second-guess it," Brady said.​

"I'm human, man. I make mistakes. I think I just toe-ed a little bit," Bass said of his missed extra point. "So after I miss, I just make one correction, keep it simple, push forward and go from there."

The opportunity for Bass to win the game wouldn't have been possible without an outstanding play from the field goal block unit on the drive prior in overtime. Los Angeles lined up for a 48-yard field goal from the right hash with a chance to win the game.

But OLB Greg Rousseau had other plans as he powered through the left side of the Rams' blocking unit and got a hand on the kick. Using his 6-foot-6 frame and 34 3/8-inch arms, Rousseau's left hand made contact with the kick, slowing it down enough to land short of the uprights.

"Greg did an outstanding job to be able to go block that and sell out, and it's just kind of who he's been all year," Brady said.

The block gave the Bills another opportunity, with the offense looking on from the sideline, hoping someone would get them the ball back. Rousseau continued his great start to the season, making one of the game's defining plays and one of the biggest plays of the season so far for Buffalo.

"You're crossing your fingers, you're hoping someone on defense or special teams makes a play," Allen said. "And that's what happened. Greg Rousseau made a play."

"I saw heart, man… I saw effort, and I saw good technique out there, and I saw heart," CB Christian Benford said of Rousseau's block. "I saw my brothers wanted it more. That's really what it comes down to: who wants it more, and my brothers wanted it more."

The offense and defense may get the spotlight on most nights, but Monday night's win wouldn't have been possible without game-changing plays made by the special teams units.

Bass added on a pair of other field goals and two extra points in the victory, along with P Tommy Doman Jr.'s only punt of the night being fair caught at the seven-yard line.

RB Ray Davis set the tone for the big special teams performance on the game's opening kickoff, taking it for a 70-yard gain to set up the first Bass field goal. Davis and WR Greg Dortch combined for 219 kick return yards (31.3 average) in the win, with Dortch's only punt return going for 14 yards.

"Special teams from that perspective, it's like, 'Hey, the hat's on our head right now. We have an opportunity to go block this kick,'" Brady said. "Scheming it up in the communication, you learn a lot about our guys throughout these games, and I'm just proud of the coaching staff, the way that they handled those pressure moments."