2010 NFL Draft: Buccaneers Plan Is Anyone's Guess

                    NFL Draft: Four days and counting.....

Someone actually asked marvelous Mark Dominik last week who the Buccaneers were going to take this Thursday night when it's their turn to deliver that card to the commissioner.

As if he'd tell us. As if he really knows.

With the draft now measured in short days and hours, rumors swirl all over the NFL.

And what happens at the top is still a topic for discussion.

The Rams aren't talking.

One wag has the Buccaneers trading up into the first spot to take Ndamukong Suh.

Anwar Richardson of the Tampa Tribune has your Pewter Pirates bamboozling everyone by taking Oklahoma offensive tackle Russell Okung.

The nerve of him.

Former Buccaneer offensive lineman Ian Beckles, now a talk radio guy on 620 WDAE , is swearing on a stack of 32-ounce sirloins that his old team is without a doubt, trading down and out of the third spot.

Suh, Gerald McCoy, Eric Berry, they've all been tagged as Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Truth is it all depends.

Depends on so many factors.

Conventional wisdom is that come Thursday, Dominik will pretend he's one of those guys sitting at the high-stakes poker table in the James Bond movie Casino Royale , and pushing $31 million in chips to the center of the table and declaring "ALL IN." That would mean he's staying in the third slot, ready and willing to hand over that much in guaranteed money to whomever he'd take with the third pick.

If that's Suh, well, it might be money well spent. Suh has already shown to be a character guy as he's pledged $2.6 million of that money he'll get to his alma mater. He did that at the Nebraska spring game. He'll give $2 million to upgrade the weight room and $600,000 to the college of engineering where he will earn his degree in construction management.  

Conventional wisdom is that with the depth of the draft, the Bucs would be hard pressed to find a trade partner to move down. They would have to get fair value to move down and that's a crap-shoot notion at best.

If the Bucs stay in the third slot, it's a fair guess that if the Rams stay at No. 1 and take Sam Bradford, then Detroit will promptly take Suh, which leaves McCoy to the Buccaneers.

If you've read enough and read between the lines, you know that perhaps the Bucs may not be as high on McCoy as they are on Suh.

So does Eric Berry suddenly become an option after Monte Kiffin went completely ga-ga in his opinions over the Tennessee safety?

Fact is the Buccaneers have so many needs, they better be sure the first five players they take turn out to be wonderfully productive professionals that log some playing time come September.

Dominik has said they've run virtually every scenario that could occur Thursday evening. They've got all this down frontwards and backwards.

They analyzed, brought in an outside consultant, and analyzed some more.

Hopefully, the Buccaneers will not end up with paralysis from analysis.