You can hear Jim Mora’s immortal words echoing in the background.

“Playoffs? Don’t talk about playoffs. Are you kidding me? Playoffs?”

But that’s exactly what the Tampa Bay Bucs players were talking about as veteran’s reported for training camp on Wednesday. Running back Doug Martin said this is the most confident he’s been the team will advance to the postseason.

“Last year, we did fall short,” Martin said. “Just being close gives everyone confidence that we can get there. And with the draft moves that we’ve made and with the guys we have, I know and everybody else knows, and you can see that everybody else knows, that we have a good chance this year.”

It's hard to talk playoffs when you've missed the playoffs the last nine years like the Bucs. But that's exactly the players’ mindset.

“We have all the pieces in place, we’ve just got to put it together,” defensive tackle Gerald McCoy said. “A great coach, a great staff, we put in a lot of work this offseason. The maturity level of the team is much different than it’s been in the past even with us having a lot of young guys. We have a lot of maturity in those young guys.

“Not really many egos and that goes a long way on a winning football team.”

“Not even from just the old guys, but the young guys are real confident, they’re getting real comfortable,” linebacker Lavonte David said. “Everybody’s walking around here with big smiles on their face. Everyone’s looking and feeling great.

“Everyone’s ready to go.”

David also said it fires him up when people talk bad about his team.

One way to silence the critics, win.