Last year the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were a miserable 3-5 in one-score games, a factor that contributed to the team slipping into a midseason coma and nearly fumbling away the NFC South crown.
This year has been a total reversal of that misfortune. Through the first five weeks of the season, the Bucs are 4-1 in one-score games -- which also happens to be the team's record as we begin October. Sunday's 38-35 win over the Seattle Seahawks was the latest in a growing trend of close calls, but ones the Bucs manage to get on the right side of.