The Super Wild-Card Weekend concludes with the Dallas Cowboys-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game on Monday night, and in Bucs cornerback Carlton Davis’ view, the NFL saved the best for last on its first-round postseason schedule.

“Monday night in Tampa against the Cowboys, and it’s a playoff game,” Davis said during an appearance on “Bucs Total Access.” “The crowd, the energy’s going to be crazy. And that’s really it. It’s going to be a movie. It’s going to be crazy. The energy’s going to be so high in the stadium. We’re going to be the only game on. Cowboys versus the Buccaneers – it doesn’t get much better than that.”

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Tampa Bay finished the regular season with an 8-9 record – four games worse than the Cowboys’ 12-5 mark. But the Buccaneers are playing at home on Monday night because they won the NFC South title while Dallas qualified as a wild-card entry after finishing one game behind the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC East standings.

Despite Tampa Bay’s record, Davis thinks the Bucs are peaking for the playoffs. Davis missed the final two regular-season games because of a shoulder injury, but the former Auburn standout will be back in Tampa Bay’s lineup against the Cowboys.

“I feel like we’re definitely trending up,” Davis said. “I feel like guys are hitting their marks. I feel like the defense has been consistent and the offense has been making plays. I feel like we’re probably a dangerous team right now.”

The Buccaneers won the division title for the eighth time in franchise history and captured the NFC South in back-to-back seasons for the first time in 2022.

Davis joined Tampa Bay in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft. The Bucs went 5-11 that season and 7-9 in 2019. But in 2020, after 12 straight seasons of missing the playoffs, Tampa Bay won Super Bowl LV, and two division titles have followed.

“It’s amazing because when I got here we were so far from that,” Davis said. “I know what it’s like not to be on the winning side, being the team that loses and nobody expects anything from you. And now to see the growth, to see how far we’ve came, and to put banners up, to put your mark in history, that’s special. And to know that you had something to do with that, you can always tell your kids and reflect back on it when it’s all over and done with, really say I made a difference.”

The Buccaneers started their 2022 season by defeating Dallas 19-3 on Sept. 11, the second straight year that Tampa Bay kicked off a campaign by beating the Cowboys. In 2021, the Bucs beat Dallas 31-29.

“I would say it’s more pros than cons in this situation,” Davis said of facing a team in the regular season and playoffs, “because we’ve beaten them twice, each time we’ve seen them, so it’s more like: We got y’all’s number; we know how to beat y’all. But it could be cons where they feel like they’re familiar, they feel like they know where they messed up at and they’re going to correct it. It’s the NFL at the end of the day, so guys make adjustments all the time.

“But playing against them, it’s to our advantage because we match up well against them, and, like I said, we have the confidence going into the game. We beat them, we know how to do it and we’ve done it before. The confidence level is high.”

But that doesn’t mean Davis thinks it’s going to be easy against the Cowboys, who were the NFL’s third-highest scoring team during the regular season.

“They can be an explosive offense,” Davis said. “They trust their players, and they’re going to sling that rock. They’re going to throw the ball. They’re going to try to take chances. They’re going to be aggressive. That’s just in their nature. They’ve always been that way. …

“Every team has a DNA, and their DNA is: We’re going to play Cowboy football, we’re going to be aggressive, we’re going to throw the ball like 40 times and we’re going to live and die by it.”

The Cowboys and Buccaneers square off at 7:15 p.m. CST Monday at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. ABC and ESPN will televise the game.

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