Bucs HC Todd Bowles points to team's 'fight' moving forward

Week 5 was one the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would like to forget quickly and move on from. In a shootout with the division rival Atlanta Falcons, the Bucs came close to victory but ultimately fell short of a walk-off touchdown in overtime.

The Bucs are now 3-2 and surrendered the division lead to the Falcons with their loss. No reason to panic, as this team has shown resiliency so far this year and won’t go down without a fight. Fight is what head coach Todd Bowled alluded to when taking positives away from their heartbreaking loss on Thursday night.

“I mean, we have fight. We knew we had to fight, and we thought we were a very good football team. We’re capable of being a good football team if we eliminate mistakes. We had plenty of chances at the end, either side of the ball, to win the ball game, to put it away on the 28, to get the fourth down stop, not let them get the ball off at the end of the game and get to 0:01. We had plenty of chances to win that [and] we understand that. We’ll go back to work, we’ll get better at that as a team and we’ll move forward, so that’s positive.”

The Bucs will need to regroup fast, as they’ll face another division rival this week, the New Orleans Saints. This game will determine an NFC South winner later in the season.