In a few days, Bucstop.com will be providing the Bloguin network with our official mock draft pick for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Well Bucstopers, you wont have to wait! Here is our pick.
To follow the draft so far, you can follow the mock draft here..
The Giants will be taking G/C Mike Pouncey at #19…and now, Tampa Bay..
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers badly need help on the defensive line in the form of a defensive end, the likes of which the Bucs havn’t seen since Simeon Rice left in 2006. Rice was supposed to have a successor in the name of Gaines Adams, but the Bucs have been burned before at this position, and with only Iowa’s Adrian Clayborn the only game changer available, the Bucs are going to shock the draft world and pass on their biggest need.
Why? The Bucs already have a Cabbie puncher named Aqib Talib, and he is facing gun charges in Texas. Add to the mix Tanard Jackson’s one year suspension that COULD end upon successful application for reinstatement in September, and you have a team and GM that cannot afford anymore ‘Problem Children’.
Instead of DE, the Bucs are going to put the icing on the cake and beef up the offense even more with the addition of a fast running back to spell last years rookie DB Leaper LeGarrett Blount. That back will be Alabama’s Mark Ingram- whom the Bucs have coming in to town so they can check out his knees, legs, etc.
The Bucs plan will be to join the elete class of power running teams that employ two similar style running backs. Cadillac Williams will be retained on the cheap for the 3rd down back option although the Raymond James occupants will probably feel Ingram’s hands are as well developed as Cadillac’s: the question mark will be the former Tide’s pass protecting skills.
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