The Tampa Bay Buccaneers appear to be flying under the radar this NFL offseason, or maybe the Bucs merely have returned to their normal altitude after three seasons in the league’s stratosphere with Tom Brady.

With Brady as its quarterback, Tampa Bay played in 17 prime-time games over the previous three seasons. With Brady’s retirement, the Buccaneers are scheduled to play in prime time twice – against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sept. 25 and the Buffalo Bills on Oct. 26 – in 2023.

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“I never really paid attention to any of that stuff, honestly,” Tampa Bay cornerback Carlton Davis said during the team’s offseason program. “I’m like oblivious to it. Even when Tom was here, of course we got a lot of attention, but that was never my focus. I was never feeding off of it or motivated by it or anything like that, so for me it’s just another season to prove ourselves again.

“Obviously, people are underrating us, but I think that’s a good thing because when we punch you in the mouth, it’ll be, ‘Ah, man, OK. It’s the same team, same culture.’ And I think it’s a great opportunity for guys, like everybody, not even just myself, everybody to prove ourselves and show how great of a players individually we are and how we can come together as a team and still have that same culture and winning mentality.”

Brady isn’t the only player who departed the Buccaneers in the offseason.

“It is a lot of new faces, I can’t lie,” Davis said. “I didn’t know if I knew too many people in the locker room. It kind of felt like the older you get, it’s a little bit lonelier, especially from when I came with my draft class. I barely recognize anybody, but that’s a part of the business. And I’m happy to be here to teach the young guys and bring a new culture to the team.”

Davis joined Tampa Bay from Auburn in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft. He’s started all but one of the 71 games that he’s played for the Buccaneers.

Even though Davis will have the opportunity to celebrate his 27th birthday when the Bucs play the New Orleans Saints in their next-to-last regular season game on Dec. 31, he considers himself one of Tampa Bay’s old guys. Only six players on the roster have more NFL seasons than Davis, and just three have been with the Buccaneers longer – linebacker Lavonte David and wide receivers Mike Evans and Chris Godwin.

“It’s a blessing to be able to be an old guy in this league,” Davis said. “I just want to do my part in teaching the young guys and catching them up to speed.”

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With Brady at quarterback, Tampa Bay won Super Bowl LV to cap the 2020 season, then posted 13 victories and a postseason win in the 2021 campaign. Last season, the Buccaneers finished the regular season with an 8-9 mark, but that was good enough to win the NFC South and the accompanying playoff berth.

Tampa Bay is going into this season with Baker Mayfield and Kyle Trask on the quarterback depth chart. The No. 1 choice in the 2018 NFL Draft, Mayfield started six games for the Carolina Panthers and four for the Los Angeles Rams in 2022 after spending his first four seasons with the Cleveland Browns. A second-round selection for the Bucs in 2021, Trask has played in one NFL regular-season game.

When Tampa Bay returns from its summer break for training camp next month, Davis said the Buccaneers will resume seeking to “build culture within our team, especially us being a young group, and just raising the competition level. Raising everybody’s play just by competing at a high level and making it contagious to everybody, letting them know that this is the standard and this is how we’re going to practice, and it eventually translates to game day.”

As an “old guy,” Davis said he could help accomplish those objectives “by being an example. I think it’s by showing it day in and day out, and then not tolerating people not meeting up to the standard.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.