Matt Thomas

He'd have to do it on a discount, and I don't think with his agent, if you know who David Mulligat is, he's never a discount guy.

So I think he would like to have a better season next year, maybe get the team deeper in the playoffs, at least get them to the championship game for the first time ever in the franchise's history, and then maybe have some leverage.

But right now, I think from a PR standpoint, the Texans have not shown any initial signs to say, let's lock this guy up and put him in that money that would be close to like this.

Offensive line, defensive line, not necessarily a position of super need.

They went in for agency and got two or three different linemen that have been not necessarily journeymen, but just guys that have had good careers, but not signing the long-term deals.

I'd like to see some stability ultimately with an offensive line for more than one year.

It feels like CJ is going through a different set of five in front of them every single year.

You could probably use an extra wide receiver as well.

You know, Tank Dell has been a really good positional player as a number two or number three, but he's been hurt for back-to-back seasons, and he's just frail.

He's 5'9", 165, and that's going to be tough for him to stay in there.

But Nico Collins needs a legitimate number two next to him because Christian Kirk most recently left, and they've been kind of searching for that number two ever since, you know, the Texans that had battle injuries and obviously Tank Dell being the biggest one.

Emai.

I think if we're having this conversation in two months, it's a 10.

But right now it's probably a three or four.

The reality is this.

You let Frambois Valdez walk and he's now on Tiger Lane playing with the Tigers.

Emai was a guy that they went to the Far East for the first time in his franchise history.

They want to develop a pipeline and bring in players here.

He obviously, when he signed, said, I don't want to go play for the Dodgers.

I don't want to go play for the Giants.