The A-Team: Christian Kirk Is A Texan, But What About Other Needs On This Roster?

News broke during The A-Team today, that the Texans have traded for Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Christian Kirk. The report says the Texans are sending the Jags a 2026 seventh round pick for Kirk. Is this a good move for the Texans? What about other needs that should be addressed this offseason? We will see what Nick Caserio has in store, as the new NFL league year starts next week. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why. I think this is a very smart play. Of
course it is yesterday. Prediction already came true. It didn't
take you long. I predicted that Kirk Lockett or Elijah
Moore would be a Texan. Those are the three names,
and Christian Kirk is a Texan. So no applause. No,

(00:24):
it's I'm I'm fine with it for me. For Nick,
I'm sorry. Did I miss the part where he fixed
the offensive line in there? It's a process. Brother. You
got Stevan Diggs last off season and it was so fast.
I'll read you the latest from Tom Pellisero trade. The
Jaguars are sending lightweight, undersized offensive lineman Christian Kirk to

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the Texans, per source. Now do you feel better? He
really wrote that? No, okay, it's okay, it's okay. To
help your team, you don't have to only fix the
biggest problem first. But why not? Why not tackle it first?
Because there the Jaguars weren't looking to release a productive

(01:05):
offensive lineman only to have a team call. They did
have one of their linemens say goodbye today, Mitch Morsh
announced his retirement. Started every game for them last year.
That's a new hole. They may or may not have
already known. Again, Christian Kirk's deal this year just under
seventeen million, mentioned that yesterday that's what he would be do.
So that's up to the Texans to figure out how

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they want to do that. Like I said, I'd be
real surprised even though the what they gave up is
next to nothing. You it's not the end of the
world if you don't sign him to a longer deal
and you let him play out under that deal. I
think that's more of a financial issue than a what
we gave up. We can't You can't possibly he can't
be a rental. You can't give up a seventh round
pick for our one year rental of Christian Kirk. But

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Christian Kirk, again, not knowing all the specifics of Nick
Cayley's new offense, he should be phenomenal. He should be.
He was very good in Air Arizona. I thought it
was very smart from a player perspective for Jacksonville to
target him when they wanted to get more weapons for
Trevor Lawrence. I thought they paid him a lot of money.
I was surprised by the figure they gave him. And

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now the Texans are on the hook for the most
lucrative year of that deal, but they'll probably put a
different deal in front of him. But he was very
productive there before. He missed little more than half the
season last year, went up to catch a pass down
the middle of the field, wasn't able to haul it
in because when he landed on his left shoulder, he
broke his collarbone. So he'll be returning this year off

(02:31):
of a broken collarbone. Wonder if they still bring back Digs.
I know this looks like on the surface, well that's
basically a trade off, but I wonder because of the
Tank Dell situation, if that's even a possibility. It's a possibility,
but I think this is exactly why they will not
bring Yeah, that's the it's not how many veteran wide

(02:54):
receivers you bring in at this level of talent. They're
going to bring in probably two other veteran wide receivers,
but Kirk's probably the best among them, I would think.
Doesn't mean alway, he's only twenty eight years old. Oh
he's gonna kill it.