Chad Johnson wants out of Cincinnati again and I have the perfect place for him to go - Tampa.

He is cocky, arrogant, and more than a little wacky. In other words, he is a clone of Jon Gruden, but with a bigger body, better speed, and hands. But seriously folks, if the Bucs are looking to upgrade at wide receiver - and if they aren’t, they should be - they could do much worse than coax Johnson away from the Bengals on draft day.

And the Bengals basically have to trade him now. His position in Cincinnati became untenable after he told ESPN’s John Clayton, “Nothing has changed from what I’ve been saying for three months that I don’t want to play for the Bengals ... I want to be traded before the draft, and if that doesn’t happen, I want to be traded as soon as possible.’’

The Bengals control his rights through 2011 but so what? It’s not a question of whether they will trade him now, but when it will actually happen. He is owed about $18.5 million over the balance of his contract and, as we know, the Bucs have plenty of room to absorb that cost. The Bengals are reluctant to trade him because of the $8 million salary cap hit they would take, but that’s their problem.

Think of how quickly the face of the Bucs’ offense would change with Ocho-Cinco in the lineup on opening day at New Orleans. He’d bring the same kind of juice to the offense that Warren Sapp brought to the defense back in the day and the Bucs surely can use that. He may be a problem child at times and it wouldn’t be easy pulling this off, but if the Bucs want to make a bold statement about their intention to go for it, bringing Chad Johnson to town would do the trick.