Green Light with Chris Long - Dak Prescott Will Score Points vs Broncos & Ravens To Cover | Backdoor Cover with Stanford Steve

Episode Date: October 25, 2025

Chris, Macon, and Stanford Steve select their favorite picks from the NFL's Week 8 slate. The Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos over looks enticing, the fellas fought over the Baltimore Ravens to cover and the Browns-Patriots under. Lamar Jackson's return makes the Ravens a great pick. Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, and George Pickens will prove that their offense display is for real. Tua Tagovailoa's passing might on the out in Miami, how will he play on Sunday? Our full picks below: Chris: Cowboys +4, Ravens -6.5, Falcons -7.5, Browns-Patriots under 40.5, Colts Team Total Over 29.5 Stanford Steve: Cowboys-Broncos Over 50.5, Jets +6.5, Browns +7.5, Saints team total under 21.5, Titans-Colts under 47 Macon: Bills -7.5, Saints +4, Tua Tagovailoa under 206.5 passing yards, Packers -2.5, 49ers-Texans under 41.5 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 and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open. Green Light Hotline: ‪[phone]‬ Also, check out our paddling partners at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Appomattox River Company ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠to get your canoes, kayaks and paddleboards so you're set to hit the river this summer. 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

Cowboys over. All right. It's going to burn them at some point. Playing this week. Oh, Denver. Speaking of Javante Williams, revenge game. Javenta Williams. A lot of points.

Bro, you're wearing goggles every year. Yeah. Like this. King Titty over here. This is you every year. Cald will say, they're you. I love your picks. That's you.

Cleveland, New England, under 40 and a half. Obviously, dickhead. It's a good pick. It's going to go under. Oh, I mean. Steve, welcome to the. show. Hi, guys.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Oh, no. You didn't inconvenience us at all. This is just, it's Thursday night. This is just, uh... Well, no, he did inconvenience us because this is four hours later than we usually tape with Steve. Yeah, but I actually have more time to prepare to lead the last podcast, so it actually

worked out fine. Eat shit, Derek. Ha! Steve. Ah! is in a great mood, which we may want to think about for the... Yeah, where is he?

He's in Nashville. Oh, yeah. Vanderbilt, huh? I don't... Yeah, I got an issue, though. I talked about it this week on our pod. I don't really like live music. He's trolling.

It's not the word I take. Well, I'm becoming increasingly more antisocial. I don't like it as much I used to, but... But I think live music is great. Some of it. The crowd. By the time you get a beer, it's warm. It's...

I'm not all in on this. It's not great. As somebody who's going to continue attending concerts, it just depends on the venue. I'll tell you what. Some of the groups I used to like, I don't want to go see them live now because they play big stadiums.

You know? Not to be that I heard of the first guy. That's where I think in Nashville. It's the biggest stadiums. You know I saw Kenny in Nelson County, Virginia? No fucking way. I was 16. No way.

No way. We weren't married at the time. 16? We were just friends. Yeah. Now we're 40. Do you hold hands? Ah, I don't think so, no.

I think they were JF back then. Ah. Is that? Just friend. Yeah. Okay, just checking. I was JSD. All right.

Let's MP, make picks. Already? Yeah. It's seven o'clock, bro. Well, Steve's got to get to a bachelorette party. I, it's a joke.

No, I know. They're seriously, you can get trampled by them. They're all just like running around all drunk. We don't need to put this in the framework of an America's team. Oh, American teams. I don't.

Can I just tell you all a quick story that I've only told three other people in my life and I've saved for this very show. Sure. In an effort to avoid an unmarked white utility van in my driveway, I crashed my

new car into my old car on Monday morning. No fucking way. I'm sorry. What did you say after you did it? Nothing. Just sat there in silence.

So the new car is great and that it literally vibrates your seat when you're close to something. Yeah, yeah. A little buzz buzz, and it's cool. Yeah. But it doesn't, it does it so frequently or I drive so erratically that I don't notice it. So I'm looking out the back at the white van and I run straight into the side of the Jeep Grand Cherokee.

that I'm waiting on Carvana to come pick up. And when Carvana asked if it was drivable, I marked yes. Because while it doesn't run, you can put it on the back of that flatbed and drive it wherever the fuck you want. So if they want to come to my house and give me any shit about the drivability of the car,

we're going to have a problem. I'm going to need that $5,890 you say you're giving me. Algorithm. But no, I crashed the Tahoe on Monday morning. It's been in a different county getting fixed. How, uh... Not good. So how fast were you going when you hit it, you think?

Four? But like I leaned into it. I thought you were smarter. I just like, that's not a smart guy thing, dude. I've never done anything like that in my entire life. Yeah, it's a dumb guy thing. That's fucking incredible. Not in a good way, obviously.

No, I feel bad now. He didn't answer any of my texts all week. Yeah, I don't take any. You should have called. I got a call from a guy called Dave. Yeah. Today. He said he's got it looking brand new.

Oh, good. There we go. Positive vibes. Is it going to cost mid-four figures? You're damn right. Four? Yeah, bud. Oh, definitely four, but mid-four.

America's team's Dave. Dave, yeah. Shout out Dave. Dave. And we're not going to, no accident report. We're not going through insurance. So when I go try to sell this in the next one to seven years. You're going to be in there with Chauncey Billups, bro.

Hey, I got a good quote for you. Godly, I hope it's still up on my phone. America's teams, the stoics, you know? Because we talk a lot about impermanence. Nothing lasts forever. People, things, moments. All right? So we had a good ride, Tahoe.

Fuck. That was the new Tahoe. not the old one uh 2, 2022, Steve. It's a fucking futuristic Tahoe. U.S. Attorney Joseph, uh, Nosella Jr. on a legal gambling operation involving NBA. Your winning streak has ended. Your luck has run out and you can bet on that. Wow.

One three for three. It's like a fucking, there was actually a quote I read was even worse. Um, there's a lot of them. What did Chauncey say last night? Let the Choms fall where they may. He said that in his postgame presser. I'm not making a joke. Oh, yeah. Oh, this is it. Hold on.

Where is it? No, I'm done. I'm done on that story. Shouldn't do stuff like that. All right, let's talk gambling. Okay. Shall we? Do you have an America's team, Steve?

Nothing but bet. Nothing but bet. Nothing. Yeah, the Wizards. Their own one, but they're going to be... Get it? Yeah. The operation was called.

Operation What were they calling the operation? You guys didn't see this. I didn't know how to name. I don't remember it, but they had some really... I know what you're saying? Yeah, you know what I'm saying? There was like some corny playing on words,

some sports playing on words. There was like five of them. The mafia was, would named them. It was the mafia's names for these operations, right? Yes. It was like Operation Nothing but Net.

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Nothing but give Calp some help for what he has your record at up there. Oh, what are he putting at? He's got you at 19 and 18. Bro, I saw that today and I was like, that's not possible. No, you're 19 and 16. You're 19 and 16.

You're right. It's okay. It's just a clerical error. But I'm such a good guy. don't say dick i'm just sitting here like i don't know no no no chill chill chill hey no positive reinforcement yeah yeah yeah uh yeah i just have a suggestion sure like when we get the text at noon with the lines just put the records on there he's gonna do it he just gave you a thumbs up can't no no chiming in yeah well he was great last week i just don't know i don't know what's gotten into him

He's 22, 12, and 1. There's no 5.0. Was there? Yeah, 5'0. You were 5 and 0. You want to argue that? All I was doing was rooting against Javante Williams' reception. Unbelievable.

That was funny. And you know. Are you ready? I had a stone cold winter last week that I let go by. Not ready. Under Dylan Gabriel passing yards. I thought it was a misprint. And I just went to Javanta Williams instead.

I you might want to think about giving me a three and two how do we do last week calbs uh steve five and oh you two two and three yeah it was shitty um two and oh two and oh had a little trouble iRL too is that right oh yeah i'm chase long right now that's why i need to get home and get the last guys got to come back agree oh i'm teasing i'm teasing you once after we get done with this i'll give you a couple teasers this weekend yeah all right Good. Steve first pick. All right.

He's got never left. Cowboys over. All right. It's going to burn them at some point. Playing this week. Oh, Denver. Speaking of Javante Williams, revenge game. Chavanta William.

A lot of points. 50.5. You say, Cowboys team total over? No, sir. He takes the over and the Cowboys game. Well, you would say that differently. Yeah. I think he thinks it's integrated into the fabric of the show that everybody just known.

over a month. Okay, is it, whose turn? I don't know. Calves already a rating. You gotta be fucking kidding me. I'm not sure who to take. Is,

is, is, just take the one I'm gonna take. No, I'm not. I'm not. Do the last week. You fuck stick.

I like, I like a lot of these sides. No, I like half of these sides. I don't love this one, though, and I'm going to take it. You ready?

Imagine, picture this. Final from Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. Buffalo 28 Carolina 13 God damn damn you piece of shit

I'll take the bills and the points seven and a half of them you like that they're going in a teaser okay that's for damn sure they ain't losing

I hope it's sweaty um I root for your pick you have two Chris you fuck you you fuck you fuck you you fuck you I'm rooting for you this week

I'm taking the I get two you get two that's great I will take Dallas plus three and a half. Okay. All right. I will also take...

Wow, speed route. Don't mind if I do. It's just normal making. That's what it's called. It's normal. I will take... Don't like that one. The Baltimore Ravens.

Yeah. No! Yep. That's a good. pick. Thank you. That's a good pick. You bitch you.

You they weren't getting back to me. They weren't. Hey, underline right there, Ravens. That's a nice pick. That's cool, man. I didn't look at the other underlines. I didn't look at the other underlines. I didn't care less.

Right. I can win this thing six years running. Do we? Is that? Don't I normally win this exercise? No. The last two years he has taken the dub. You would say that.

Yeah, and last year it was like I was dragging my balls across your face. Arabian goggles is what you had. And Steve did win the year before. You're fucking, no, no, no. That's, you're wearing it up. Bro, you're wearing goggles every year. Yeah. Like this.

King Titty over here. This is you every year. Cald will say, they're you. I love your pics. That's you. Oh, I'm sorry. If I don't like it, I don't say anything. If I don't like it, I don't say anything.

Being supportive and shit. Being a friend. Fuck you. You know, I hate this pick, but I'm going to make it. A few moments later. Okay. All right. Okay.

Ooh. Okay. See? Okay. Okay. Oh. I like two of these. I don't.

It was great. Thank you. I appreciate it. Great. Great. Speaking of my testicles, it took. testicles to better one in five team land six and a half points but Lamar's back baby okay hey we're still waiting right oh we're still waiting New Orleans Saints plus four points I hope that blows up in your

face is that serious yeah in the preview I was just you know just reading the doc he was like yeah miss that Hey, first quarter, though, first quarter, you might want to bet the Saints. That would have been the sharp play. Too late, though. Steve. Big coin toss. Two to you. I got two.

You read a different four. Your four is off. I'm going to do it. And then this is going to be the only time I do it all year. Give me. Don't do it. The jet. Fuck.

Fuck. Oh, you guys are idiots. I love the Jets. You guys are fucking idiots. You think you're... Love the Jets. And... Give me...

They're my third round pick, the Jets. The Browns. No, you bitch you! How do I... I've been backing them for weeks. I'm going to take yours. I know. And then now they're going to win.

It might win outright. The problem is I don't know where to use my half point. Well, that's... We're half a point. You're 22 and 12, Steve. You know? You're 22 and 12, Steve. You don't like my Saints pick?

No, I don't mind it. Remember Giants Broncos under last week? Shut up, Steve. Stupid Steve. Is it the boy's turn? Is it Stanford, Steve, or stupid Steve? No, it's the doc. It's for the doc.

Is it me? No, it's make home. Okay. Okay, all right. You ready for this? Not on your list. I could probably get it in the fifth. round, okay, but I need a little bit of a break.

Tuatunga Vialoa under 206.5 passing yards. I think you could get benched. That's Tua Tunga Vialoa. You can just write Tua. U.26.5 Pass. Yards.

Y. Letter Y. Not asking why. Where is that game? It's in Atlanta, bro. are at the phone. Oh, in the dome, good conditions? He's going way over. No, he's not. He's not. Am I out? Chris, you have two to you. Yeah, you get two. Okay, so I will take the, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the Falcons at home. Why not, you know? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Oh, no, is it, oh, you got another. It could be implosion time. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it could be Quinn Ewer's a clock.

No, I mean? I don't know if that's a clock much better than two o'clock. Well, right, but. Q o'clock. They go from two o'clock to Q o'clock, bro. I don't know if it's much better. All right. I think two,

I think two o'clock is Q o'clock, if you know what I mean. I do know what that means. So, uh, all right. So, oh, those all my sides. Yeah, player. Fuck, I hate that.

Yeah, you took the rape. Because there's one team, I really want to take. Oh, I know who it is. All right, so I will take the... Oh! I will take the... Cleveland, New England, under 40 and a half.

Obviously, dickhead. It's a good pick. It's going to go under. I mean, the lowest total on the board goes under every single fucking week. It's a good... It's a good pick. I like that pick. No, I actually am not... I don't love the pick. I don't like it, Chris.

I don't love the pick. I don't love the pick. I might take it off your hands. No, it's too late. That's how I felt. God, I had some stickers a couple weeks ago. No, that's a good pick. You just took my total off the board.

That's too bad. I want the visiting Green Bay Packers, please, on Sunday night. You bitch you. You like that? That's a good pick. Thank you. That's a three-pointer. It's a PD public, but it's a good pick.

You're zagging on all the trends. which are, fuck, who cares? Oh, Tom, what is he walking on Monday? He's like, guys, this week we're a home dog and we just lost last week. You know it was a trend? What? Backing out of my driveway at 100%

for like five years. You know it was a fucking trend? Zero accidents in five years. Backing out of my driveway. Trends are made to end. Yeah, no, I know. You show me a trend, I'll show you an end. All right?

Dance will make her dance. you show me hate i'll show you jordan love that's interesting stop hate stop hate stop hate NFL start love start jordan love all right we uh who's up steve's up take this thing home steve nice hat too i'm sorry i missed the first time yeah gosh it's gotten dark i get another one do you have any more of those

what do you need one of those hats do you have any more where do you get that one you got a guy Montana football. God, man, why don't I have that guy? Oh. I am going to take... This is getting kind of hideous here. This is...

It's a lot of buy weeks. This is rough. Yeah, you feel that squeeze, huh? I didn't know what that was. Half the leagues and half the leagues and now. Maybe Makin and I can both win. I'm going to go Saints under 21 and a half. Kind of a jerk.

All right. Good pick. That's a pretty good pick there. And... Hold on to your butts. Titans Colts under 47. Wow. I would have gone the other way.

I know. I thought about it, but that's the only game that sticks out. Fucking late now. Give me the Colts over team total. He can drop me. That's fine. Oh, sorry. That's fine.

I didn't know. No, no. You're not ready? Well, it's fine. That's why we need the Jeopardy music. I'm considering going against Steve in the Dallas Denver total. You know, because the thing about Shane Steichen is he's, he's, I feel like he's out to prove something this year.

It's not just like winning games. It's like, hey, look how fucking fast my car is. I got a hot take about the Cowboys. Give it while he thinks about this bet for the next. six minutes. George Pickens is better than DK Mecca. Absolutely. Yeah. That's not even

a conversation for me. Is that a hot take? Probably not. Cold? Warm. I'm getting ready for the, is George Pickens as good as CD Lamb take. Niners, Texans

under. 41 and a half. Pick is in. So I wanted to actually take the Houston, Texas. I forgot that I wanted to take them until I already put that that bet in. But yeah, you got them underline. Texans underlined. It's a total zag.

That's all it is. Just like the Niners were against the Falcons. Well, yeah, that's, no, the Niners were not a Zag against the Falcons. The Niners were the right play against the Falcons. The Falcons looked against the bills. I know, but the Falcons are like, they're on crack. Dude, you just never know what you're going to get, which is, I gave him out this week,

laying seven and a half points. What could go wrong? You could use your half point. No, I did this with the Texans, basically two weeks in a row. You know, Monday night I did it, and now I'm falling into the same trap this weekend against the Niners.

They'll play better one of these weeks. Half point for the fellas. Oh, half point for the fellas. Give me, uh, Megan said he'll take it on two as total. I will I mean like God I got a bunch of point five

I will use it on the Browns this is some bitch-ass shit right here that gets me a seven and a half of the Browns yes it does I will do the responsible thing and take the Packers down to two and a half please I would say the most responsible thing for me to do is probably by the Dallas score to four would you say

making. This is where I need help. Yes. Yes. That's good work right there. Yeah. That's a good teamwork right there. And now we can go home. Like that. Yeah. Because unlike Joe Flacco, I can't wait to see my family. Stanford. It's like the opposite. They don't make me talk for three hours at the time. They don't want me to talk at all. Working home is like, it's yin and yang. It's great. I got one more thing to say because this doesn't come out until Saturday morning, but I have a friend who, for his birthday, some friends are attending a Virginia Tech football game at Virginia Tech, and I'm going to be at Lane Stadium Friday night,

which I never thought I'd say, like, as a spectator. So I don't know how do you handle that thing. Flap, Steve? Yeah, I mean, it's a weird thing, dude. You know, like, I think it's going to be a good time and everything. Like, I always thought those people have a good time. You say, you're still going to have a blast. I know I'm going to have a blast, but, you know, like...

I've had this experience. Yeah? I went there for a non-UVA game. How was it? Fine and fun. Did you pay for it? No, I didn't pay for it. In part because while I was rooting for FSU and they beat them.

Well, I don't know. I'm going to be a total, like, neutral guy, like, you know? I know. They play Cal? I will give you... I'll give you the permission. that when you go to a game involving Cal, you root against Cal.

This is tough. This is quite interesting. We got the opposite deal. I just, who's going to win? Being a good guy, though. Who's going to win, Steve? It's the Hokies. Cal won't want me some, no, Duke want me some money in that Cal game.

Cow's trash. I watched Cal. They're not very good. They're five and two. And tech's two and five, but this is a tech spot. I don't know. I think about my. Little league football, dude. Freaking enter sand, man, you win this game on a Friday night. Yeah, that's probably the deal.

Do I bet on tech? You know? How's that flight from Berkeley to... Hey, you can't bet on tech because you're in the state of Virginia. Oh, yeah. With bet M-D-M-D-D. No, I saw the wing. I can't bet on tech.

I can't bet on tech. No, you're right. Drive over to Tennessee. Come on over to Nashville. We'll be here. Pop over, make the bet, drive back. Yeah. I got to be at a legal point.

poker game, so I can't make it. Just kidding. You're going to have fun, Chris. Okay, we'll see. We'll see. And I've got to be back for flag football playoff Saturday. Let's go, boys. There we go. Let's go, boys.

That's backdoor cover with Stanford's team. What time's the Vandy game? 3.30 Easter. I'll see you there. The games ended like four, but I'll see it for the second half. One of these weeks, we'll get it done. I know. All right. Take care, Steve. Love you guys.

Love you.