Green Light with Chris Long - Lions & Broncos To Cover & Packers To Score Points | Backdoor Cover With Stanford Steve

Episode Date: December 20, 2025

Chris, Macon and Stanford Steve pick their best bets from the NFL's Week 16 slate. The fellas love the Lions and Broncos to cover as well as the Patriots and Buccaneers. The Broncos-Jaguars game also could go over and Steve goes against the team that has had him in the lead all season as he selects the Cowboys-Chargers under. Also, nobody has any faith in the Raiders with Steve taking Geno Smith's under passing total and Chris nearly taking the Texans team total. Happy Hunting! Chris: Lions -6.5, Broncos-Jaguars over 46.5, Chiefs-Titans under 37.5, Dolphins-Bengals over 47.5, Packers over team total 23.5 Steve: Broncos -3, Patriots +3, Geno Smith under 188.5 pass yards, Eagles -6.5, Chargers-Cowboys under 49.5 Macon: Giants +3, Buccaneers -2.5, Falcons-Cardinals over 48, Commanders +7, Cameron Dicker over 1.5 field goals made HELLO, Locals! Green Light is hosted by Chris Long and is joined weekly by Beau Allen, Nate 'Dr. Fax' Collins, Macon Gunter, Stanford Steve + many more athletes and celebrity guests. Subscribe to get in-depth analysis, instant reactions and team highlights | Presented by BetMGM 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]‬ Listen to the Full Episode and check out all our content: https://greenlightpodcast.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Give me the Lions. Like it. I knew you would. Good pick. Thank you. Give me Denver. Damn it. It was great seeing all the old footage.

The last time Jacksonville won there, Mark Brunell. You know, I had the Broncos and the Lions on my card here. Well, they're gone. Give me the Green Bay Packers over team total. Love it. They're going to have to be aggressive this week. White Steve. White Steve.

Boys. What's up, player? Uh, you guys. Welcome to backdoor cover featuring Stanford Steve. Who no longer outright leads the deal, does he? No, there's a tie. Wow, that didn't take long, huh? Yeah.

Well, no, we just wanted to get it out of the way because I'm done with that whole thing. You're done with the competition? No, the whole thing about, you know, Guilt Tripp and Steve for his performance last week, which is very uncharacteristic of him. He's been picking his ass off. Easy, easy. Easy. What?

he has you've been like you've been nails this year there's an ointment for that yeah you want to by the way jul julian edamon does dude wipe ads now oh good did you know that i did not yeah not listen to up post welker did it depends did he yeah super week super bowl week yeah which is a crazy thing to do at that young of an age fun fact it's actually depend. Is it? Yeah. That's it?

That's it. That's the entirety of it. That's interesting. Wes Walker was a teammate of mine for a hiccup in St. Louis. You probably don't remember that. Really? Yeah, in the dark ages. 2015, we were two ships passing the night.

I remember we went to Napa for, do we go there getting ready to play the 49ers? Yeah, yeah. Anyway, that guy likes wine, and we had a great week. Wes Walker. I wonder if he remembers me. Make it go to a lot of games in the Edward Jones don't? Half dozen. Like one season.

In one season or like? Yeah, he shut up like once a year. Once a year. Yeah, once a year. Yeah. Is he married? No. Not at the time, no.

Oh. Did he stay in hotels? No, usually stay with us. Stay with the longs. Yeah. We leave some, we leave some like. You like staying in hotels. I've heard.

Why? Because of his kitchen. Hey, hey, it's almost done. Come on, update. It's almost done. It's almost done. You got microwave? Idiots.

What's it look like? Mostly white. What kind of tiles? Mosaic. Nah, man. It looks like marble, yo. It's a subway tile. Yeah, we put some marble on the countertops.

Let me tell you something about marble. Shit's hard. Chips, soft. Chips, cracks, sticks. stains not good Yeah but you put it up But you put it on

Yeah you can't get cheap marble I didn't get cheap marble I got honed Aegean marble Honed a JAN Yeah From the Aegean C Mm-hmm

Aegean Would you say Would you say about marble I said it's cheeks Just like you said You think it's cheeks I know it's cheeks I knew it was cheeks

And I got talked into it Yeah I didn't get talked into it I said, I vote no on this. And you went honed. Yeah, it all. Big mistake. Why?

It's just a lot. You're bullshit and you don't know shit about it. No, I do. More prone to chip. I know at all, dude. No, no, not more prone to chip. Less prone to chip, but still chipping like crazy. Already?

So maybe the kitchen's not almost ready. Sounds like the kitchen is shambles, dude. It develops a patina after a while. Anyway. Did somebody tell you this or you read about it? About what? the marble? The own marble chipping.

Honed. Honed. The word is honed. Yeah, but you own it. He does own it. No, I heard he financed it. Just wrote the last check today. No, bullshit. We went to somebody else's We went to somebody else's house

to see a honed Aegean marble. And then we left. And then I said, damn, all the chips and the cracks and the stains. Right. Is that what our shit can look like?

My wife said, I love it. And that was that. Yeah, everybody knows marble soft and porous, dude, easily stained. Bro, what kind of

countertops do you have? Not marble. Marble. Marble sounds all hoity-toity. It's not. It's an affordable store. It's a little hoity tootty. It only sounds

hooty-toity. I'm going to budget. We're going to move on from marble in a moment. Budget for replacement, you know. Steve. Before we sell it.

Steve, how was Monday night football? Cold as shit. When I said, what's the play? Steve said he'd invest. I text that. Thank God. Thank God.

Oh, my God, dude. Well, you, you actually. I don't know how we used to play in that, man. I don't. Um, mental toughness. It sucks. Yeah. Yeah.

It's a decision. The hardest part is like before you go out, honestly. Correct. Once you're out there, it's kind of like. Yeah. Once you get, but like, the onus of getting yourself. out there and ready to go. Kind of fun.

I can't believe we used to do it. Kind of miss it. You know, some of us. I think playing in the cold is sick, dude. Oh, but Steve, you did get to see history to his last game as a starter in Miami. That was a wild deal. I was standing there watching the clip, the postgame clip with Jalen Ramsey, and I'm like, this is not going to go.

overwhelmed. I know. And honestly, standing on the sidelines watching it. I'm like, man. It's bad. And, and optically, it's terrible. They were teammates, but it really doesn't matter. You're the quarterback. And I think that's the problem. Like, you know, you see it after every game with, with players, position players, you know, catching up, bullshit. And you can still do that. But I think what also made it look bad was like everybody else was off the field or there was nobody else in that frame so it kind of looked like they were like the only two out there um yeah that was a shot of him laughing on the sideline and i did this this week i was on damashex pod and he was he was kind of like crushing players who do it and i was like dave like i actually don't think players have to

project sadness after games i don't think that's like a thing you know like players don't have anything to prove like we just actually went out risked it so like if i want to yuck it up with my brother or a former teammate, I think I'm entitled to do that, considering all the car accidents I just got in. And you know how it is on team playing. Some guys are, some guys are dead silent, and some guys they deal with, with loss is a little different. But the quarterback has to project a sense of. And I also, Chris, I think it tells a lot about you when you told the story about playing in the Super Bowl against the Patriots, and you made it a point to go behind closed doors and meet up with McCordy and those guys the week of yeah like there's ways to do it

yeah yeah and then on top of that your your point of you're the quarterback man like you guys just looked abysmal for three hours and got to have a moment go in the tunnel and text them and be like hey it'd be one thing it'd be one thing if they were if he was lighting it up um but yeah you lose your job the same damn week and i don't think the two are directly related but What do you think about Quinn yours? I'm really interested to see this. Because the whole argument, right? It was like, Tua is the only one.

This offense is designed for Tua. He's a lefty, the ability, all the play action. And Quinn sort of has the same deal. He anticipates, throws, how he handles all the motion and the movements, I think is basically what has to be done to play well in this offense. Right. So I think McDaniel has. confidence in him doing that.

He's playing in a bunch of, you know, differently started Ohio State. He went to Texas. He was the number one quarterback in that class. Like the ability's there. He got dinged up a bunch with injuries. So I wonder about his mindset going in. Like he has to get rid of the football.

Like he's not a mover around to the pie. His pocket presence isn't great. His mobility is not great. So I look at them putting more of an onus on the run game and how they, you know, try and spread you with that. So I'm very. curious to see how this goes. Thinking about giving out one of the training camp.

Thinking about giving out one of these aside there in that in that Miami game. Just going to telegraph that. You are. You are the first pick. Oh, that's good. So I can kick this thing off here. Well, Calib should probably tell us where everyone stands. What happened last week?

That sort of thing. Yeah, do it, do it. Last week, Steve two and three and making three and two. And Chris also three and two. we are tied to the top. Steve and Macon both with a 43, 30, and two record Chris right behind at 42 and 33. And that is how many games above 500?

Oh, 13 and 1313 is 26. And another nine is 35. 35 games above 500. Whoee! For this three. I don't know those two games in front of Skinny Boy. No, just one. No, unfortunately.

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I knew you would. Good pick. Thank you. That's a good pick. Hey, hey. The Lions are off the board. It's in pencil. They all are, but Lions right there.

Are those the sheets we had to wait a half hour for? Yeah, sorry about that. There was a train coming. I had to wait for the train. You had to print it out. Uh-huh. You had to print it out. they were in my car i had to go back to my car to get them

you didn't have like a electronic copy i do print these out no no no it's all look at this look at this shit look at this shit is that come from like the cloud or something or never mind steve it ain't from the kitchen uh uh take you time give me denver damn it i can't wait until dr fax yo everybody's talking about the gags I like Denver, too.

Oh, it's a perfect spot. Perfect spot. It's a good pick. I couldn't make four picks in the first pick. It was great seeing all the old footage. The last time Jacksonville won there, Mark Brunel. Hey, quarterback. Hey, hey, I'm talking about that on another show.

Come on, man. I mean, it's, I'm on. Yeah, he's only got so much material. Jeez, Louise. It's not on the other sheets in the train. Hey, here's a riddle. Just looked at your hat again, dude. Hey, the Broncos in the, hey, the Broncos.

If I squint, you look like Mother Teresa. Listen, listen up. I can't. Hey, the Broncos and the Jags played two playoff games in the same year. How's that possible? It's different seasons. It's pretty possible. How do you mean?

The Broncos of the Jags played in two playoff games in the same calendar year. well one was in one playoff and then the next was in the next playoff how you figure how do you mean what do you mean different playoffs in the same January and December that's right all right you guys got it no shit all right

relax jeez you got any more brain busts in that hey galves look at this who's the Broncos underlined lions underlying see that making you can't answer this you can't answer it okay who's the only NBA team to have

his same nickname as a power four football team. Why are you looking at it? Oh, dude. Oh, yeah. Power four? Yeah. Just say it, you know it. You got it.

You know it. Is this like a trick question? No. No. You should know this. Cavaliers. You got it. Yeah.

You got it. There's a whiteboard that somebody wrote it up. You got it. Cleveland. Yep. I don't call us the Cavaliers. so it's just not to, you know. I know.

It's a good trivia question for you guys. The Cavaliers, the French guys on horses with skinny swords that wear you know, fucking women's clothing, basically. You wonder why we have a branding issue? Yeah.

A bunch of French guys, dude. And flowers in their hats. Macon. A bunch of uncool Enigo Montoyas. Calps. I, You know, I had the Broncos and the lions on my card here. Well, they're gone.

I'll take the New York Giants plus three points at home against Minnesota. What was that breath? Composing myself. Golly, dude. Next? This is snake. Yeah. So you guys know.

Calbs. I don't like it. I don't like anything about it. Okay? You bet the Giants? I don't like anything about this pick. Okay. I'll take the bucks.

Cool. Ling. I don't hate that at all. I don't. There's nothing wrong with that pick at all. All right. Thank you guys. Thank you.

Nothing wrong with that pick at all. Thank you guys. Mike Evans back. If you're into trends. You're back last week. Yeah. Yeah. No dick.

I'm... What? Good luck. Steering out of this one. The proper phrases would have been like Mike Evans came back last week. I mean, Mike Evans is back. It's factual.

Steve, you're up. Take forever Steve. Uh-oh. Raiders team totals 10 and a half. I know. It's like, it's like I dare you. I dare you. I dare you.

to be a sacrifice out there. They're going to be pulling Gino Smith limb from limb. It's going to look like a medieval torture chamber in there. Give me a Patriots. They're going to have them in the rack. The Patriots? You took the Patriots. That's an interesting play.

Is it, is it movement week? Is it, is it, is it, is it, is it movement week in our little contest here? I think it might be, am I up? Yeah. Give me the over in, uh, Denver. Hey, I got a down arrow there. That's okay. All right.

So take it. I might. I have other arrows, Steve. You guys got arrows. They have one arrow? I come prepared. You're up, Chris. Arrows con pollo sounds pretty good right now.

You know what I mean? And I will take the Chiefs Titans under 37. Wow. Cowboy probably moved all these numbers, huh? Did you guys hear that? Did you hear that? Pin drop? No.

Steve's dream died. Hmm. That was a dream pick for him. He really, he had that one. He had it in his pocket. You sit under? What do we have for Gino Smith passing yards? Hold to the wind.

Who does he play for? Raiders. He's for the Las Vegas Raiders. I'm just playing guys. Here to Mar Hamlin's back this weekend. Gino Smith. Come on. 188 and a half.

Under. He likes it so much. He didn't wait until the last one to get his prop. He does that dig it right now. I can't wait. As much as I was excited for Philip Rivers in Seattle, this Raiders offensive line against Houston, I'm more excited to watch.

It's going to be a problem. It's going to be a problem because you know what? D'Amico Ryan's was pissed off at his defense. coming out of that win. Cubs. Hey. Give me the over in Arizona. They've got the Falcons.

All right. Good pick, fucko. Really? You think so? No. Steve. I don't have it written down. See that? No arrow.

Quite a card. I don't like this, all right? What don't you like? I'm going to hold my nose and do it. Okay. Team in Washington plus seven points, please. It's not the worst play in the world. And honestly, if I didn't play for the Philadelphia Eagles football team,

I might be giving it out. Okay. That makes me feel better. Dan Quinn stabilized the situation a little bit since taking the game of a play cards. It's not just the Giants. The trend is. Eagles. Nice.

Picking against him. This bitch, I forgot to go. I forgot. I forgot. About? I was going to go against him. I was going to take the,

the Ravens or something. Did you say that's your half point, Steve, to six and a half? It's not, typically we do that at the end. I'm not here for typically. Give me the over in Miami. you like that one huh steve i do i think Cincinnati's going to go crazy yeah i think i think you know and i think it's a prime i almost gave out the dolphins backdoor covering or something but it's it's

kind of a stay away because i have no idea what it looks like yeah a lot of people that's why you asked about when you were well i thought you know what's his college quarterback opinion but the only thing we've seen from queen ewers is bad preseason ball with a couple flashy throws the only thing is like he's had what 12 weeks of learning under Tua's tutelage some people pay millions of dollars

and Zach Wilson Yeah and Zach Wilson too Like come on he's soaking it in like a fucking sponge Give me That was funny Look at all those totals man We're gonna have to carry your nuts out in a In a freaking wheelbarrow

I know it's tough God damn I'm going to do you another one. Wild card. No, I know, but it's going to be a team total. Yeah. It's going to be a team total. Hey, double down, go Detroit.

Nah. Come on, player. Nah, give me. Go against Steve in some way. Is Christian Watson playing in this game? That's a great question. He is unclear. He was limited in practice.

Dude, he's fucking playing. Give me. The Green Bay Packers over team total. Love it. They're going to have to be aggressive this week. Haven't seen it. What's the weather there? 23 and a half.

I don't think it's bad. It is 23 and a half. Look at that. Yeah? It's not a bad deal. I'll be watching that one of the deal. This is a ridiculous card, dude. It is.

The other sides I liked. I liked Denver. I liked Tampa. Washington unplayable. 20 mile per hour wins, evidently. That's fucked. In Chicago. But I wonder what it feels like.

It probably feels, yeah. I think both quarterbacks can throw through the wind. And I think, I think Chicago is going to be, I don't know what to expect. Here's the thing, Steve. I can win this whether they win the game or lose it. If they win it, I feel good about it. if they lose it, they're going to be chasing. And these fuckers are going to be able to run the ball on them.

I, you know, now the only other thing is I saw Dunezay and Burden being down, which makes me worry about maybe the pace of the game, but that's a concern anyways. Fuck this, dude. I cannot believe what just happened here. And they're all halves. You want to start over? No, I'm going to go Detroit to six and a half. So you know.

Typically, we, I know, ahead of time. We wait until the end. Let's save you time. Okay. He's just, I'm taking my half point right now. All right. Just to stream.

You know what's been really evident to me, Chris, is how Caleb Williams has not been affected by cold weather. Dog, he throws through the cold weather. He's been very, very good. It turns out that arm talent matters. Give me. And that temperatures feel different to different people. Oh man, I'm just staring at this bronze team total.

This sucks. I can't take it. What just happened sucks. What happened to me sucks. What happened to you? What happened to you? I had Detroit and Denver on my board. Tell me which ones are losers while we wait for Steve.

I can't see totals to save my life. No idea on your entire car. I know it's a problem for me too. I'd fucking. You're at least one and oh. You like Detroit. Love them. I really like Denver.

Denver Jacksonville. I just feel like... I do too. I feel like the middle of the field is open for for the Jags. Honestly, both teams. And I think... I'm going to go against my will. What was the total last week? Under...

Under and Chargers, Cowboys. Oh, wow. Steve. Not dancing with the girl who brought you. Nope. Gino... Never met her. Gino has to... Gino has to play, yeah?

What if Gino doesn't play? Then you've got Kenny Pickett, and he's, we saw him last week. Steve gets auto, Kenny Pickett, Total. Oh, no, no, no, then it's. Fuck, did I, oh, you put Green Bay? I said, you thought I said Packers, I said, Texas scene total. Nah, man, picks on the board. Hey, man.

Cameron Dicker. Over a field goal and a half, please. Thank you. Picture this. Packers, 24, bears, 22. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, even 20.

Yeah. I can see that all day long. Packers, man, they're the hottest show in town. They just beat the next Tom Brady. That board feels very full. Yeah, I just wanted to say. see Reed type a bunch of fucking numbers up there.

Can we get it? Can we get? Could Santa bring Reed aligned whiteboard? Yeah, that would be wise, wouldn't it? That would be nice. Yeah. It's like fucking. You'd hear me start over a bunch. Yeah. Uh-huh. I love how big the first name initials are compared to the teams.

Yeah, too. Gotta let them know. Chris has half the board. Me and Makin are like, smush to the right. Yeah. Warning, this product contains nicotine.

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Yeah. And field goal games. I'm going to take the bucks down to two and a half. Chris had Lions minus six and a half, the Broncos Jaguars over 46 and a half, the Chiefs Titans under 37 and a half, the Dolphins Bengals over 47 and a half, and the Packers team total over 23.5.

Steve had the Broncos minus three, the Patriots plus three. Gino Smith under pass yards of 188 and a half, and the Eagles minus six and a half, and Chargers, Cowboys under 49 and a half. Macon went with the Giants plus three, the bucks minus two

and a half, the Falcons and Cardinals over 48, the commanders plus seven, and Cameron Dicker over one and a half field goals made. Why are you doing that? Well, you think I'm going all in five? I had something in my throat. Picture this. Ooh, I'm not seeing it.

No, I am. Like 28, 24. Oh, okay, so I didn't need to do that. I think it's going over. Okay. Wouldn't you think it's going to go over? Yeah. I think Tampa's Prime for a big game.

I think Tampa's Prime for a big game, and I think frigging... Last time we saw Todd Bulls was like I've never seen him. Oh, yeah. It's your boy. That's my man. Coach of the Year. You know we play indoors.

Motherfucker. That field got it. Where is that game? Carolina. Yeah, which is... I just went potty in their house. Did you? Yeah.

Two? One. Yeah. Do they have mirrored windows on their hotels? Come on, man. What do you mean? Are we talking about people's business like that? What's you mean, dog?

He said he likes to look at windows and hotels. Why do you like to do that? Like look through the windows? No, look out the windows. At what? Other windows. No, you perverts. Typically, I'm here in Charlottesville at my house.

when I go to a different place, a different locality. And I'm in a hotel. I like to look out the window at a different place. So do I? Shout out. Does your kitchen have a window? Do you prefer,

do you only check into, do you only check into horseshoe-shaped hotels? You fucking pervert? Do you think when you get older, you're going to retire to live in a Tokyo high-rise? I don't understand the reference. I'm trying to think of where the most windows are. Sicko.

We got, we got Virginia Bullitt. Move to Thailand like a normal fucking retired guy. No. We don't have a Virginia bowl game plans. That's the one place. We're going to win. Our sport.

Yeah, we're going to win now because the other team's quarterback ain't playing. That's right. We got the bra on the wild this week. Oh, shit. What are you got? What is that? Montana, Montana State to go to the FCS final. I was going to say that.

No way. It's going to be a guess. Where is the game? I don't almost Came out my mouth. And you're going? No. No, I'll be watching.

Why don't we go? I have to work. For who? College game day. Oh, that show. So you can't just be like, yo, can I skip this week and go to Bozeman with Seelong?

That's crazy. Who do you root for? You're a grizzly guy, aren't you? Yeah, grizzly guy, for sure. Grizzly guy. Bozman. forgot the song bozeman sings and it's just basically fuck the grizzlies they say it every word whoa it's all they do it at the stadium it was they did it last week