Green Light with Chris Long - Amon-Ra St. Brown Talks 2026 Lions Offense, Jared Goff & St. Brown Podcast

Episode Date: August 26, 2026

Amon-Ra St. Brown joins from Detroit Lions training camp and dives into the 2026 Lions outlook, his connection with Jared Goff, and his relationship with his father, former bodybuilder and three-time champion of Mr. World. Amon-Ra talks about his 'dominate' demeanor on the field, his precise route running and the St. Brown podcast. Amon-Ra also surprises Chris with a WILD statement about the easiest position in the NFL! (00:00) - Intro (01:02) - Detroit Offense (04:15) - 2026 Lions WR Group (07:20) - Connection with Jared Goff (10:15) - Easiest Position in the NFL (11:38) - Lions Game in Germany (12:47) - Lions Celebrations (13:58) - Relationship With His Dad, John Brown (17:05) - St. Brown Podcast Have some interesting takes, some codebreaks or just want to talk to the Green Light Crew? We want to hear from you. Call into the Green Light Hotline presented by Zone Nicotine and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open: ‪[phone]‬ With the return of the Layup Line, make sure to check out the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=YP1-ffQ3T_yUDRnJRhDtOw Check out Green Light's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, where you can catch all the latest GL action: Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beating someone just by little was never enough. The word Dome is a word that just stuck with me from my dad. So that's something I always try to, you know, implement, whether I was in high school, college, NFL, like, just dominant. Not even just beat, you want to kill. I told Hudge, I think, you know, edge rush was the easiest position in football. I think it is, man. I really think it is. Running routes is like, it's like you're being an artist.

Every artist is different. Everyone draws differently. They run their routes differently. But as long as you have that spot, when the quarterback's ready, I think that's the most important thing. Another great player here at Lions Camp. Amin Raus St. Brown, joining us one of the best receivers period in the game, not just inside. Welcome to show.

Yes, I appreciate you having me. Dude, when you walked in, I kind of flinch because I've seen the way you chips some of the D.E's, man. I was like, you really take some joy in that, don't you? Yeah, I feel like, you know, you don't really, as a receiver, most of the time you're taking hits. Yeah. When you get a chance to hit someone, especially at D.N., it's like, usually you like to stay out of there because those guys are pretty big. Hell yeah.

But when they don't see it, you don't see. see you come and say let me get a free shot yeah do you like cracking down on people too you you you you love blocking yeah i mean i feel like when you have a i've been spoiled to have really good running backs here yeah um with demo swift when he was here jimir i mean they're like a block away from you know taking into the house every play so for us as receivers it's like man let's do our part the old lines is going to do their job obviously they're blocking every play but for us as wide outs man we run a lot of routes we get the ball we get open but when it's in the run game and jimmy and The O-Line does their job.

Jamir's, you know, it's one-on-one with him and safety on a corner. And we don't, you know, we don't block our guys. Like, damn, that could have been a, you know, 70-yard touchdown and set it to 15, 20-yard gain. So we understand that. Me, J-M-O, to slot all the receivers here. And so when you got a back, like, you know,

like we do here, it's like, just stay on him for a second and he'll make it, you'll make the rest happen. Also, with you and Gibbs work in the middle of the field, like talk to me about how having a guy who's just as dangerous as a receiver in the backfield opens things up for you as well. Yeah, I think, you know, it's great to be on a team like this. I think I take it for granted to have as many playmakers as we do.

It wasn't like that always when I first got here. But I feel like we just kept getting better each and every year. But for me, it's like every play, obviously I want to make the play. I want to get open. But I think it's more on a defensive coordinator. When they try to game plan us, it's like you can't double everyone. You want to double me. You want to double Jammal.

You want to double Jemar. I mean, pick your poison. And, you know, it's Jared's job to get the guy open or find open. guy and I think for us man we all want to make that play and so we're all hungry and so when we know we have that matchup the one-on-one that we're getting we feel like we can win but I think you know our coaches do a great job of understanding what defense are trying to do to us whether it's third down they want to bracket me put a safety over jam or whatever it is you got one-on-one with jimir laporta is one-on-one test law is going to be one-on-one a lot we all know that so I think we have

so many weapons that it just makes it hard for defenses we just got to be you know when the ball comes our way. We might not get it for two series, but when it does come away, we have to make play. What's the hardest thing about changing schemes? Because now, you know, last year, I don't know how much of a scheme change it was, but it was a different play caller. Petsing runs a little bit of a different scheme. What goes into that for a receiver? You know, I'm sure offensive line-wise, there's a lot of new run concepts and that sort of thing, but is it kind of this is this, is this, it's a different language, or are there new wrinkles in the passing game that you've learned under Petsing? There's new wrinkles. I think a lot of it for us to stay the same.

you know, Petting came in and ended up learning a lot of what we have done here for the past three, four years. But like you said, he's added some of his stuff from Arizona, some of the wrinkles that worked for him. And so it's just a blend of everything. But honestly, it hasn't been too bad. The terminology for the most part is pretty similar. Like I said, he's added new plays, a few new formations.

But for the most part, we've been doing it since OTAs. A lot of the install was heavy in OTAs. And so now in camp, you kind of already know all the plays. He's adding stuff here and there. But we're rolling. We're, you know, we're playing fast. And I think that's the biggest thing as an offense is play fast. You don't need too much stuff.

And especially when you got a lot of good players like us, man, they just let us go out there and play ball. No question. Part of that's with a coordinator, probably checking their ego at the door. That thing doesn't seem like an ego guy, but like, you know, some of these coaches, they get a little full of themselves.

Doarch, he brought Dorch over. I think he's a good player. Like, what have you seen from Dorch? And what does he add to your wide receiver room? Yeah, Dorch is good. He's shifty. He's feisty. He's a competitor.

You know, we lost Khalif Raymond. in the prep, return game, and Dorchester done a lot of that. So hopefully he can come here and take over that role. But George's been great. He's been working hard. I think some of the way we practice, the way we do things here is it was a little new from at first. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard a couple of people say that.

We're going live and practice. We're doing, you know, it's just a little different culture around here. It's all that's cool. Yeah, I'm used to it. That's all I know. I feel like a lot of us that have been here, Jemir, Hutch, Panay, Jack. I mean, this is all we know. We've been here our whole life.

So for some guys that come in, like George, some other guys, it's new for them at first, but I mean, he's used to it now. What do you want to see out of Tesla because it felt like last year, every time he touched the ball, something really good happened. Right. He made a great catch late in practice. Pylon, like, what can he do to take his game to the next level? And how hard is it?

Because he walks in the room and you're the vet. Right. You can tell him, hey, you should do this. You should do it. But y'all are so different. Right. That's a great question. I think Isaac's still learning his body.

I think, you know, NFL is a lot different from college, the way the game is played. And so, you know, he's come along great. I think for him, what he knows going into each and every game is he's going to be a lot of one-on-ones for him. They're going to try to stop me, try to stop J-Mo, try to stop Jemar, try to stop Jemir, try to stop Leporter. You're a defense according to looking at our team. Tesla is the first guy you want to make a play before anyone of the players that has made a lot of plays. So he knows that going into it. And like you said, that play he made today, I mean, it's one-on-one, him against a corner.

And he makes a big catch. I mean, I think the big thing for Isaac is making those contested catches. He's a big body. I mean, you throw a fade, slant, stop route. That's to be his bread and butter by himself, isolated. Other than that, I mean, he's in the run game. He's a beast. He's blocking safeties.

He's big. He's strong. Great teammate. He can run. I mean, he's going to be really good for us. But I think for him, it's just understanding that he's not us like he. you said. We use different releases. We're all different. I'm not Jamo.

Damo's not me. I'm not Isaac. Isaac just has to play to their strengths. He's a big body. I mean, corners don't like to get touch, really. They want to touch you. So once you get engaged with them, they kind of don't like that. So I told Isaac, man, just use your strength in your routes, releases, top of the route. I promise you, these Dibs don't like it. Well, yeah, speaking of that, when you get a guy that doesn't like hands on him in the run game or physicality, are you kind of leaning on him the rest of the game?

You go in a bully mode a little bit? I think so. You kind of a bully, it feels like. Yeah, yeah, you kind of know early on in the game what kind of player are going against. Yeah. Especially they call a few run plays and they don't really want to, you know, get involved in the run game. It's like, okay, this is the type of div I'm going against. I usually, you know, it's a pretty good game when the DB is like that.

Yeah. Because once you get to the past game, I mean, he doesn't know what's coming runner path. You run at him. He's thinking it's run. Now he's, you know, already backpedaling. You just slip him. Play action. I mean, we do such a great job with the play action here.

So I think just marrying the run game with the past game, being aggressive in the run game, gets you open in the past game. I was going to ask Jared this because he's coming up next, but nobody throws the dig better. Yeah. And you guys have a really good rapport. And a lot of the times, like, you know, it'll be play action. You guys will be, it'll be like a duo action type thing.

And then all of a sudden he just whips his head around and he knows somebody's there. Yeah. What's the key to running that specific action the right way? Yeah, I think, I mean, in terms of his job, I don't know, he does a great job of doing what he does, his accuracy and whatever he's down, flipping his hips, whatever. But for us as receivers, we know, I mean, we've wrapped it so many times in RVAs and practice. But we know, you know, we got to get a certain depth, obviously, to get behind the backer, the hook defender. And then we just got to make sure we're wide enough to when we come

in, that backside guy can make the play. And Jared knows it. And I mean, he's ripping it before we before we're out of play. Right. Yeah. He's like, he's already throwing it. So he's built that trust with all the receivers. But it's great. I mean, like you said, it's one of our most cop passes, explosive plays here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we do a great job of doing it. He does a great job of throwing it. I mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? Hell no, dude.

People haven't figured out how to stop it. With the free access thing, you probably don't get it much. Like, people are always building their game plans around you. What's the most creative thing you've seen done to deny you free access, the most annoying thing you've seen done? It's like a, you know, double double. They have a guy outside of you. Yeah.

So the Niko, wherever the corner's playing, you know, outside leverage, especially when I'm the slot and third down, usually you play outside of me with the guy head up of me. And then a safety would just come down right before the play. Yeah. And basically it's like a bracket. I mean, at that point, I'm still going to run my route. But for the most part, no, I probably won't get the ball.

Right. Unless they're really falling asleep. And Jared, like, doesn't get sacked in like five seconds. I run behind the double team. But for the most part, it's like, I kind of know when I'm getting the ball and when I'm not getting the ball. But I still have to do my part so that other guys can get open and things like that. But like I said, I'm blessed to be in this office because you can only do that so much to us before other players can make you pay. So I'm just, I'm blessed to be guys that can make place.

How much you think about it like, you know, like as a pass rush, I watch y'all work your releases sometimes. It kind of feels like it's a parallel deal. Yeah. How much do you think of it that way? And do you get creative with your releases? Like, when I talk to receivers, it's about being in a spot at a certain time. Like everything you do between snap and there is up to you, it seems like,

or is it more rigid in this offense? No, I think it's, I think's exactly what you said. you know the rush start getting to the quarterback. You've got to get in and out of your releases. You can't spend too much time at the line. If they're sending a blitz, you might have to speed it up a little. But for the most part, I mean, running routes is like, it's like you're being an artist.

Every artist is different. Everyone draws differently. They run their routes differently. But as long as you have that spot when the quarterback's ready, I think that's the most important thing. Not taking too much time at the line and creating separation. Whether you create it at the line of scrimmage, at the top of your route and then catching the ball.

That's the most important thing. But I told Hutch, I think, you know, Edge Rush was the easiest position in football. I think it is. Fuck you, man. I really think it is. But, hey, the money's out of whack because they're still paying us. All you got to just make one play a game.

Yeah, but you know what? So much of is out of our control, though. What is? A cover sack? If the DVDs play well, oh, there's a sack, dog. Here, here's 50 million dollars. Like, what the?

I played in St. Louis. We didn't have any coverage sacks. I'd never heard of that. Like, or the quarterback is just fucking jerking off in the bike. He's just jerking. fall up yeah come on like you make one you get one sack a game yeah I already told them you make

one sack a game that's so great and you get what 17 sacks you're the highest paid defense you set the franchise record you get one sack a game in football you know that would mean it's hard attack has to do everything right that sounds like a hard job attack has do everything right all game no one notices anything they do one thing wrong they let up a sack

it's like oh it's a tag it's fault but they get beat all the time but if you don't get to the quarterback no one's like oh what the fuck like this is crazy think about it one second All you got to do, like one second game. Hey, bro. What happened with Paraguay in the World Cup, man? Don't get me started, like, I saw, I saw some videos.

Someone's scared to take the PK. I don't know if you saw that. Some of the guys were scared to take the PK at the end of the game. I was like, man, it was disappointing. It was bad. Hey, you're pretty into that, huh? Yeah, I love it. Man, that was a great.

This was a fun summer. Yeah, it was lit. And you get to play in Germany this year? We do, yeah. Are you just like, when you saw it on the schedule, what did you say? I mean, I feel like, I don't know, I might be like, you might be why the reason why. Right, but I feel like the Lions haven't had an international game.

And I don't know, I'm the only team I feel like that hasn't played. Really? Overseas. When I was, I mean, this is my first game overseas. The Vikings had like two last year. All these teams get to play overseas are like, damn, one of the lines is going to play overseas. And then finally this year we got the Germany here. Yeah, in your home country.

I was excited. My mom is probably more excited than me because she's from Germany. Yeah. But it's going to be, it's going to be lit. I've seen videos like when Brady played, when he was on the Bucks and they played the Seahawks there, the fans are crazy. They didn't leave the stadium. They're, you know, shouting all, all game. I think the sports is growing fast and, you know, I feel like it's my duty to help go in Germany. You're doing a good job.

My high school, I rolled up last year. I'm like, where did we get these big dudes from? We got the biggest O-line we've ever had. It's three borders from Germany. Really? Yeah. So will you say in German, good luck to the St. Anne's offensive line. Fier de good luck to the St. Anne's offensive line.

Fuck you. It sounds, I mean, I can speak German. That sounds kind of like the same thing, dude. That sounds like the same thing. You got any new celebration ideas this year? You know, I haven't even thought about that. I feel like I started thinking about that like a week before the game. Yeah.

Me and some of the guys, Jemir, J-mo, would just start bullshit and like, what should we do if you score? Yeah. Usually on like a Friday practice and then that's what we'd come up with it. But it just off the cuff, man. Whatever's fun, whatever is interesting, whatever is trendy, we just do it. What's your favorite you've done so far? I've been asked just quite a few times.

I just have to say the headstand. It was just too... Oh, dude, that was, yeah, it's iconic. I don't know how you do that. The whole city got behind it. They started making snowmen's of the headstand, the cake of the headstand. It was just crazy.

Dude, you have my kids standing on his head. I'm like, what are you doing, bro? Yeah. You can't break your neck, brother. If you've ever played sports, you know the competition can get pretty heated. Same goes for the all new flavor of zone nicotine pouches. Introducing jalapeno line.

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for exclusive rewards and offers. We both have big, strong dads. I was asking about your dad before he came in. He's still lifting weights. You know what? The last time I checked, he was. I think he's still getting in there trying to pump some iron every now and then.

What are conversations like after the game between you and dad? like for me my dad played so when I after the game he kind of know he cut through the bullshit right and if I thought I had a great game he was usually the one to say hey I know those three things you didn't do right yeah is it kind of like that with your dad or what's he like after game when you call him up see it's a little different your dad played my dad didn't play and so he's so it's like there's levels to you know your dad understands the levels my dad just understands what looks good and my body language and things like that um so

there's some things that it's hard for me to explain to him. Like he wants me to get the ball every play. He wants me to score five touchdowns. I was like, what the hell? So I try to, you know, explain to him that sometimes it's not going to go my way. Like, it's a little different. I'm pretty sure the conversations you're having are different than mine. But my dad, man, he's, he's supporting me.

Obviously, he still has a two cents, you know, every game to tell me some stuff. But I just listen to him and, you know, whether I agree or disagree, I just try to keep it, keep it cordial because I don't want to start no arguments because it's like, dude, this is what's going on. You don't want to explain shit. Exactly. So it's like, you know, my dad's still going to be my dad because as a kid, it's like he was my trainer, he was doing everything for me, me and my two brothers and my coach basically. But, you know, as I gotten older and the game, you know, I've gotten to the next level, college,

NFL, just like the game just changes a little. And I think that's, you know, one aspect that's just he might never understand, but that's okay. He's still going to be my dad and tell me when he thinks I could do better or things like that. What's the one mentality thing that he gave you? Like was there a dadism? Like my dad had a couple isms that just stuck in my head and you could apply him to whatever. What was the besides just all work hard? What specifically gave you a mental edge do you think? The discipline, the self-discipline, I think my dad was super disciplined. He would tell me stories of him bodybuilding. Like I mean, he would, you know, he was naturally leaner. So he had to eat a lot to gain weight.

Yeah. And so he said, you know, he would tell me. stories like when he was out he went out too he had some fun but he knew when he was burning too many calories he'd be at the club he'd have to sit down and stop moving because he couldn't burn too many calories he would just sit in the corner and not do anything then he'd wake he'd set his alarm for like 3 a.m to eat because he has to get enough calories in so he's setting his alarm at 3 a.m. eating crazy food um so his discipline was like at an elite level so I feel like I learned my discipline from him um but another I mean one of the things he he taught me I think is just to to kill like dominant in anything I do like beating someone just by a little was never enough um the word

dominant is a word that just stuck with me um from my dad so that's something i always try to you know implement whether it's whether i was in high school college NFL like just dominant not even just beat just you want to kill you know there's a monster that comes out on you when you get on the field isn't it i feel like i mean yeah i feel like i feel like i just like to compete i hate losing yeah that's that's awesome how's the podcast man you you if i first off how's the podcast and second if you had a short list of like a, you know, a guest list, you know, who would be like the top four guests you could have, just wave a wand and put them on the St. Brown podcast. Podcast is going good.

We're going to start back up in a few weeks here. So it's almost like a job, like a part-time job. Yeah. But I've gotten used to it. Me and my brother, it's kind of a chance for me and him to catch up. Yeah. Because our life, you know, so busy now that sometimes you can't always text or call your brother. but I know I'll talk to him once a week at least in the podcast, which is nice.

But for a dream guest on the podcast, I mean, I got to go one. I got to go with Cade Cunningham, just the way he's been playing. He's a hooper, brought some life back into Pistons basketball. That's pretty cool. So I would say Cade. I'm a huge Justin Bieber fan, so give me Justin Bieber fan. So give me Justin. No way.

The week. Yes, my God. Dude, I was at a resort one time. Somebody walked up was like, can I use those? It was like 35s? I looked over to my right. It was Justin Bieber. Really?

Where to you? We're at? In the Bahamas at the Albany. Crazy. Dude, it was, I didn't bother him. Yeah. He's not the biggest guy. Right.

You know? Yeah. I would say Justin Bieber for sure. Give me him any day on the podcast. Two more. Shoot. I can say LeBron, but I feel like he's done a lot of stuff.

Give me KD. KD. KD. I feel like, KD's a guy that's kind of like mysterious. Super interesting. Yeah. I would like, I would like Katie on the pod.

I feel like, you know, I mean, I love watching the plays. He's a hooper. Give me George Pickens. Pickens. Really? I feel like he's a little mysterious too.

He's mysterious. He's volatile. Yeah. I like him. I like him. Some of the stuff he does, I'm like, you never know what he's going to do, man. But last question, what's something EQ does and vice versa that annoys the shit out of each other on your podcast? On my, that he does on the podcast.

Well, number one, he always thinks he's right. So it's like, he's been like that since he was this, you know, this big. He's never wrong. Yeah. He'll tell you that too. So any argument we're having, it's like he's right. Like there's no debating that.

Okay. Yeah. I digress. Um, and another thing is, just like sometimes like social cues of when he should ask the question. Like dog, I'm up.

Like, you're up. Ask the question. I love this, bro. I love this. Hey, podcasters just talk and shop here, dude.

I know what you mean. I want it to be smooth. Like, I don't want the viewers to see a hiccup. Like just, well, and then like, you know,

conversational, you know? Yeah, like, hey we were here you just totally changed the topic like i had a follow-up he's like not as organic as me so it's bothers me sometimes you know that's awesome dude hey check out the st brown podcast if you haven't dude this guy's a natural great football player appreciate you stopping by yes sir and joining us have a great year appreciate it yeah ma'am