ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The sound of the song only supplied more surrealism given what had just happened at the goal line, an all-or-nothing two-point play filled with enough how-the-hells and what-the-hells to leave a fan base feeling wonkier than the funky bass line that wobbled through the Philadelphia Eagles locker room:

Tell me some-thing good!

Well, the Eagles won. And that is something. But they were one play away from something bad. Something very, very bad. Something that would have rendered the following sentences and paragraphs almost completely moot. Something Philadelphia’s supremely stout defense warded off yet again in a 13-12 win over a playoff-bound Buffalo Bills team that was one errant pass away from giving the Eagles a sneak preview of how their season could end.

That something is for now only a whispered question: Are the Eagles enough?

Depends whom you ask. Defensive players answer in the affirmative. Did you not see? The Eagles held the Bills scoreless through three quarters — something that had happened only three times since Buffalo drafted Josh Allen, now the reigning MVP, in 2018. Did you not watch? As the Eagles’ offense punted on every second-half possession for the first time in coach Nick Sirianni’s five-year tenure, its defense hounded the Bills so hellishly that coach Sean McDermott opted to go for two with five seconds left despite 1) witnessing touchdowns on his offense’s final two drives, 2) Philadelphia’s offensive ineptitude, and 3) playing at home.

Do you not believe? This is a team whose defensive-oriented wins include Jordan Davis’ walk-off blocked field goal against the Los Angeles Rams. McDermott admitted Jalen Carter’s third-quarter blocking of the Bills’ only point-after attempt factored into his decision to go for two. This is an 11-5 team whose defense has supported eight single-score victories. After fending off the likes of Dak Prescott, Patrick Mahomes, Matthew Stafford, Baker Mayfield, Jordan Love and Jared Goff, the sight of Allen 2 yards from the end zone is just another gust on wind-weathered eyes.

“I like to consider us the eye of the storm,” Davis said. “While everything else is swirling around us, we’re in the middle, we’re calm.”

The catalysts of panic abounded in Buffalo’s final drive. But the Eagles had earned their confidence by sacking Allen five times and limiting the NFL’s leading rusher, James Cook, to 3.7 yards per carry. They nearly ended the game by forcing a fourth-and-10 situation at Buffalo’s 29, but Allen’s slant to Tyrell Shavers turned into a hook-and-lateral to Ty Johnson that snuck by Eagles cornerback Quinyon Mitchell for a 25-yard gain. Mitchell later said the Eagles had actually worked on the play during practice leading to the game.

“I was just like, ‘Damn, I can’t believe that s——— worked,” edge rusher Jaelan Phillips said.

And then another play worthy of anxiety. Allen launched a 36-yard jump ball that Brandin Cooks tore away from Eagles safety Marcus Epps at the Eagles’ 10. But the Eagles had erased plays like that. In the first quarter, Phillips forced a sack fumble that linebacker Jihaad Campbell recovered two plays after Allen completed a 50-yard pass to Cooks. In the third, Mitchell was flagged for pass interference on a deep third-and-10 pass, but Zack Baun later knocked Allen down on a fourth-and-goal scramble that fell a yard short.

“I mean, Zack’s a pretty strong guy,” Campbell said.

The Eagles sacked Josh Allen five times, but he still had a chance to win the game in the final seconds. (Tina MacIntyre-Yee / Imagn Images)

Must the strength of the Eagles’ defense perpetually be tested? Because surely there will be a moment when they will be overpowered. When there are just too many plays and too much time. Right? … Right? Because surely that is how it all felt when Cook began Buffalo’s final sequence of downs by barreling for a 1-yard gain. When Allen slipped out of Phillips’ diving reach for 6 more yards. When cornerback Adoree’ Jackson torpedoed Dawson Knox to stop the tight end’s reception a yard short of the end zone. When Allen finally plunged for a touchdown on a fourth-and-1 sneak.

The end seemed near when Allen held up two fingers. The obituary pre-written.

Here lies a defending Super Bowl champion that knows the postseason is only an open grave awaiting its casket. 

Too intense? It shouldn’t be. Not with freezing rain falling from the sky. Not with a bunch of blue-clad Bills fans bellowing bad, bad will from a padded barrier only a few yards away.

But these Eagles are the eye of the storm, remember?

“You’re not even hearing anything,” Phillips said. “You’re just locked into what’s going on.”

Allen dropped back on the two-point play. Nickel Cooper DeJean blitzed off the left edge. Phillips swam through swiftly enough to rush Allen into a back-foot throw. Phillips said it was “just slow motion” from there. Khalil Shakir, the wide-open receiver. Campbell, the trailing defender. The spiraling football, striking the turf.

Phillips’ immediate thought: “Thank God.”

Are the Eagles enough?

Depends whom you ask. Offensive players answer in the affirmative. Left tackle Jordan Mailata bristled at a narrative that emerged this week that the Eagles still had to prove themselves worthy against the Bills. “I think we deserve a little respect,” he said. So does Sirianni, whose Eagles are postseason bound for a fifth straight season, who touted his team’s ability to squeeze out a road win in a “hostile environment” against another franchise with “sustained success.”

They still know it is best that the offense improves. Reigning Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts prefers not to field futility and stand helplessly on the sideline as Philly’s defense tries to hold one more time.

His feelings during that final play?

“It’s not in our control,” said Hurts, from an offensive perspective. “I think reflecting on that, it’s just a matter of how we can improve, right or wrong, regardless of the outcome.”

This outcome was a win. Will there be a next? And will it be the same?

Depends whom you ask. Winning like this proves the Eagles are a playoff-caliber team, said edge rusher Jalyx Hunt, who totaled two sacks. These are the sort of games they know they can win. “We battle-tested,” Mitchell said. Send them in to save the game. And again. And again. And again. That’s what a team must be willing to do, they say. “You have to be a resilient bunch,” Davis said. Send them in against an opponent willing to go for two with the game on the line.

“I f——— with it,” Jackson said. “I would rather the game be like that.”

One final regular-season game against the Washington Commanders remains. It will be the Eagles offense’s final opportunity to sort out the bugs of its system before meeting another formidable opponent in the postseason.

For now, winds still swirl around the eye of the storm.