SANTA CLARA – One-score games are all Alfred Collins and his fellow 49ers rookies know about the NFL, five tense games into their careers.

“I’m just happy we’re winning,” Collins said Tuesday. “We find ways to win, and in my opinion, that’s special.”

Both the 49ers and the Buccaneers enter Sunday’s game in Tampa Bay with 4-1 records, by virtue of one-score games each week to this point.

Collins helped seal Thursday night’s 26-23 win over the Los Angeles Rams by forcing and recovering a fumble at the 1-yard line with a minute left in regulation, then joined the gang tackle on a fourth-down stop that ended overtime.

“That’s something we struggled with last year, but that is what the NFL is: Most games are a one-score game,” fullback Kyle Juszczyk said.

Before last season’s 6-10 freefall

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