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TAMPA — This is what happens to a young football team that digs itself out of a deep hole, learns to win on the road, wins a few in a row, wakes up to find itself without a losing record and smack dab in the middle of the race for the final NFL wild card spot.
The players feel like lighting a sparkler.
Then they realize they're holding the hot end.
That's what went down in the second half Sunday against the Colts. One minute the Bucs were leading 12-6 and nobody was blocking the road to the postseason.