Green Light with Chris Long - NFL Awards & 2025 Best Moments | Green Light Season Awards

Episode Date: February 3, 2026

Green Light 2025 NFL Season Awards! Chris, Macon, Beau and Nate rip through the best and the worst from the 2025 NFL season and the Green Light season. The fellas give out their picks for the best NFL offenses, best coaches, best old head in the NFL and then review their best and worst takes, give out the NFL's meme of the year and relive Green Light's greatest moment this season. Enjoy our end of the year show ahead of the Super Bowl! (00:00:00) - Intro (00:02:32) - Greatest Show On Turf: Best Offense (00:06:52) - '85 Bears Award: Best Defense (00:12:41) - Bill Belichick Coach Of The Year (00:18:34) - MVP (00:23:50) - Most Fun Player (00:29:25) - Most Memorable Season (00:35:19) - Joe Flacco-Philip Rivers Award (00:40:17) - Fantasy Football (00:46:14) - Best Take (00:49:18) - Worst Take (00:53:51) - NFL Meme Of The Year (00:55:19) - Respectful King (00:57:23) - Moment Of The Year (00:59:51) - Best Backdoor 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]‬ Head to https://nicokick.com/zone and use code GL20 for 20% off at checkout. 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

I'm going to go with Kyle Shanahan because the NFC West is the first division to have three teams win 12 games. This guy's age like the president. Let's give him a greenie for coach for the year. Eric Henry's getting a little miles on that tread, so to speak, but he's still an absolute dangerous running back and not somebody that you ever really want to see with a full head of steam. I respect, respect, respect, respect, respect. Respect, respect. Respect, respect. I respect the military as much to anybody. Respect, respect. From the military.

You got to respect the military. You know my grandfather has the heart of a lion and a lifetime band from the local zoo. Hello and welcome to the 2025-2006 Greenlight Awards. Here's how it's going to go. First half of the show, Making will introduce the award and the criteria. From there, Bo, Nate and myself will nominate it. a winner and we'll toss it back to Macon,

who will announce the winner based on votes from the Greenlight Academy, our producers. That's Tanner and Cowboy and Charlie's back there somewhere. The back half of the show is going to be a surprise to me. The producers came up with a series of awards that Macon will present to us if it goes poorly, totally on them. So I'm absolved of any stupidity that comes our way. This is great.

I don't have to host the show today. Let me kick it to my colonial fucking game show host who's got a what do you call that this is a suit I'm suited up but what about under the

what's this called oh a bliff come on you know I really don't couldn't tell you couldn't tell you thank you Chris it's a pleasure to be here

pleasure to be here with all of you you know I tried cooking food recently oh god recipe said prep time 10 minutes that's not true prep time is however long it takes for you to realize

you don't own cumin as Chris said welcome to the 2020 26th what the fuck is this dude Jesus Christ QM on what kind of joke was that Greenlight

Awards Q fanfare music no need if you don't have it 10 man alright terrific well without further to do let's get to our first award, eh?

The first award is the greatest show on turf award given to the best offense from the NFL season. The nominees are the Chicago Bears, Chris Long, the Dallas Cowboys, Bo Allen, the Los Angeles Rams, Nate Collins. And now it's over to Chris to explain his justification for the Chicago Bears. Well, we're off to a fucking great start because it's not really the Chicago Bears. It's the Chicago Bears in the final two minutes of the game. There was nobody better. There was nobody you wanted to see less than Caleb. Kaleeb Williams in the final 120 seconds of a ball game.

I looked it up today. The percentages on some of the, the Bears win probability. Let me read them off during their seven comebacks late in games this year. 4.6%, 3%. 15.9% 26%. And I think the printer short-circuited after that. So needless to say, we all remember the playoff comeback where they're down like three scores in the second half.

They needed on-side kicks. You remember the, what was it? What game was it? What the fuck? The Bengals game. They needed an on-side kick in that game. There was just nobody scarier. than Caleb Williams down the stretch

in a football game that they were losing. Their fourth quarter EPA first in the league. Bo, you're up next. The Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, before we get too far into this, making, I just want to say I love your outfit, and I was actually going to dress up for this event as well,

but Chapel Rowan took what I was going to wear and wore already last night. Probably wouldn't have been quite as good. Are you sick? No, I'm just hung over, baby. Gasparilla. Come on. Now, big weekend in Tampa. Yeah. What the fuck was I talking about?

Oh, yeah, yeah, the greatest show on turf ward. So I am going to give it to the Cowboys because I feel like it's just really in the spirit of the, you know, the greatest show on turf. Jerry World is obviously on turf. Greatest show on turf back in the day. I had a lot of great personalities like this Cowboys offense. I'm talking about George Pickens primarily.

Also, C.D. Lamb is a stud. They produced a ton of fucking offense. over the course of the year. I'm not let down massively by their defense. Also supporting cast of characters, Javante Williams. Just overall a good fucking offense. But I, you know,

despite my hatred of the Cowboys at times, pretty big fan of this offense. Fun to watch and very explosive. So, yeah. Facts, talk to us about the Rams. The Rams. What more can you say about the Rams? Pooka Nakua.

You got Matthew Stafford and they just killed it this year. They had almost 400 first downs finishing the season with 396, and then 65 total touchdowns, 46 of them in the air. So that's something that I feel like if you're watching a team on turf

and you're thinking about the greatest show on turf, that's something you want to see. Just that offense as a whole, I just feel like they're very excited to watch. I can beat the Rams. You know about this stuff? Velcro? Yeah.

Yeah? What a rip-off. All righty, fellas, all great choices, but there can be only one winner. I just got that. The greening for best offense goes to the Los Angeles Rams, a true L.A. Memorial Award. I mean, they found a way to lose. The Panthers game, they lost their 500 yards of offense and three. turnovers in their loss.

He's like, one of the first things ever to do that? That's how fucking good they were on offense. I know, what are we doing? I can fade out there. Jesus Christ. All righty. Shout out Colby Parkinson. Colby Parkinson.

That prop at the end of the year. Oh, okay. He's a prop king. Okay. For our next award, it's the 85 Bears Award. It's given to the best. Best defense from the NFL season. It's an award for real ball knowers.

You get to flex your knowledge. Get to be way more excited than the Joe fan sitting on the couch. Chris, take it away. Mr. Unipotent Ball Knower. Tell us about ankle flexion and two gaping. Nominees are the Houston Texans, Chris Long. The Packers before Micah got hurt, Bo Allen, the Jacksonville Jaguars, Nate Collins.

All right, see long. Yeah, hearing the other nominees, I'm pretty confident. The Houston Texans are usually the best defense out of these three. And here's the deal. You also have to take into account what the offense does. That team could have gotten blown out in so many games if they did not have an elite defense. The sudden changes, the lack of offensive production, the lack of complimentary football. They had two elite edges, locked down corners outside, Petrie in the middle of the field,

playing top down, decapitating people, Aziz al-Shayr, To Toe, We called them the taxmen. They were literally the most fun defense to watch in the NFL, just violent, absolutely violent. And you look at other defenses like Seattle, who were certainly awesome. Jacksonville was certainly a very good defense and the Packers as well, but those teams all had offensive production. Houston Texans were better off not playing offense at all. Bobo, the Packers, before Micah got hurt. Yeah, pretty self-explanatory for this one. After Michael Parsons got hurt in week 15, the Packer's defense was not quite the same. But, you know, before that very good unit, incredibly fun to watch Michael Parsons, a little bit of a dog. He's got some of that omnipotent ankle

flexion that you're talking about they're making. But this is a unit that was, you know, good enough to kind of put Jeff, Jeff Halfley, you know, out there in serious discussions for head coaching jobs. Now with the, um, with the fucking dolphins, but honestly, just a very good unit, very fun to watch. Um, I love Michael Parsons. I'm excited for him to get back. And yeah. Can I tell you something, Bo, Micah on the field, Micah off the field splits. Yes. Um, when he's on the field, minus. 0.037 EPA per play allowed. That's top 12 in the NFL. And then when he's not on the field,

plus 0.084 EPA per play allowed, bottom five. So it kind of strengthens your point in a way. Yeah, that's, but that means the other guy's kind of sucked. So I don't know if this is the Mike Award or day. You know, I mean, it's a, yeah, it's, yeah, it's 85 Bears award. Hey, facts.

Begin dragging off. Let's take it down to Duval, who, with only four losses this year, this defense getting turned around this year by Camp and Liam Cohen. Takeaways, we scored touchdowns. We're exciting defense. And this year, no one could run the ball on us. I think we maybe had one or two rushers over 75. yards the entire season.

Like that is defense. And I know, yes, Houston's defense, rah, rah, rah. They're exciting. They hit hard. But when you think about it, more, I mean, four losses. We only have four, like, you know, like, we only have four. And Houston, they had a, they had a harder road. And yes, your, your starter quarterback was hurt.

Houston did lose more games. But, but, I mean. What can you say? The Jacksonville Jaguars. I can't say anything, dude. I just, I can't say anything. I just, I think that the Jacksonville Jaguars, man, most fun defense to watch. I mean, you want to see guys.

Like, I mean, Houston is fun. But Jacksonville, if you recap this year, Jacksonville was fun to watch. They were probably better. You're right. Rahr. You know, my grandfather has the heart of a lion. Oh. And a lifetime ban from the local zoo.

Okay. And the greenie for best defense goes to the taxman, the Houston Texans. Yeah. It's nominated by Chris Long. Just want to put that out there that I picked the Texans, but I got bullied out of my answer. Yeah, I wanted the Texans also, but, you know, pretty unanimous. Great. Free unanimous.

On the scenes, I see how they're doing. Give it to them. Yeah. Congratulations to Mo and Nate. Before we keep going, the greenies, isn't that the little dog tree for the, you got it? For their teeth.

Yep. Maybe. Yep. I don't want a healthy mouth for your pet. Don't you have dogs? You don't get those treats for your dogs? My dog eats shit. There's nothing we can do about it.

That's right, Nate. Everybody is getting one of these as an award at the end of the show. Next up. One singular greenie to the Houston Texans defense. Congratulations, Bo and Nate. The Bill Belichick Coach of the Year award. You're at Greenlight, Coach Belichick. You are a first ballot hall of famer.

Today's nominees, Kyle Shanahan, Chris Long, Ben Johnson, Bo Allen, Liam Cohen, Nate Cohn. Nate Collins. Chris, take it away. Okay. So I'm going to go with Kyle Shanahan because the NFC West is the first division to have three teams win 12 games in a season. Obviously that's affected by the length of the season, but it is historically one of the best divisions ever.

And Kyle Shanahan led a Niners team to an effort that had them within a game of winning, this division. They were the third best team in that division easily. They had a tough strength of schedule, 95 million on IR, couldn't run the ball, Kittles Achilles there at the end, but you forget Ayuk was even on the team. Pierce all missed games. And half the year they were cooking with Mack Jones, Bosa and Warner all year. They went a playoff game in Philly, which I don't think a lot of people thought that would happen. But if Drake May is an MVP candidate, and I believe he is, I actually think he is the MVP of the league. Then you're comparing mission difficulties between Vrable and Shanahan, and it's Shanahan.

I mean, New England spent $160 million in free agency. San Francisco fielded a very young unharalded defense. They found a way to nearly pull off the one seed. This guy's age like the president. Let's give him a greenie for coach of the year. First coach to have to deal with radioactive wave. I know. He's got to deal with electricity.

He doesn't get to choose where the facility is. Bobo. Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson. Yeah, I mean, pretty exciting first season in Chicago for Ben Johnson. Took a shirt off a lot, which he did after wins, which is kind of deeply in support of that. Won the NFC North, 1, 11 and 6th. But I think the big thing for me is, you know, when you hire a new coach, it can sometimes it feels like it can take a season or two to kind of establish a culture.

or, you know, creating an identity offensively. I think Ben Johnson pretty much did that immediately. So a big rise in, you know, the offense for the Bears, obviously. But then Caleb Williams took a huge step under him in year two and became such an exciting player. You know, Chris talked a little bit about how the Bears have been absolutely weaponized in the final minutes of games, which is fun to watch. So, yeah, I'm just excited for Ben Johnson in Chicago, I think, you know, took a, took, Like I said, just sum it up, took the Bears of playoffs, and he's got them fucking on the right path going forward.

Nate, continue dragging off. I mean, just like both said, when you get a new coach, a lot of organizations, maybe you don't expect that much. And what Liam Cohen did this year, taking the Jags from four wins to 13 wins in just one season and just bringing his offensive, genius and the way he helped Trevor hopefully start going back into that direction of what everyone thought he was capable of being at that quarterback spot and just seeing the type of guys like Parker Washington emerging and Brian Thomas Jr. didn't have the best of the season, but

just as a coach, keeping that guy his head in the game and pivotal part of the the offense, them going out and getting Jacoby Myers and then getting him incorporated. I just feel like Liam Cohen had an amazing year, just getting everyone on that team and in that organization, like, all on the same page. And it was a great season for them. You know, I was addicted to the hokey pokey, but then I turned myself around. This has probably got to stop. Please. He's God.

I've kind of backloaded them, so maybe I'd use your best material. Bo better take notes because he lost fantasy. He has to do stand-up at some point, right? You might need to use the 15-minute. Well, there might be a stand-up, free stand-up night in San Francisco that we'll have to. Oh, my God. Nice. And the winner of the Bill Belichick Coach of the Year award is the substation himself.

Kyle Shanahan That was That was fucked us Chris Nobody's happy Yeah Nobody's happy Was there a mention

of Mike McDonald Uh There wasn't Which I mean It's a tough year To win coach of the year Tough year I mean we didn't even mention

Mike Vrabel You did Well I mean I mentioned him But you know Nobody nominated him Not nominated Yeah Yeah

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The nominees are Miles Garrett, Chris Long. The Patriots Schedule, Bo Allen. Nick Eamon Worry, Nate Collins. Chris. Talk to us about Miles Garrett. He's the best player in the league. He was the best player in the league this year, regardless of position. I don't think there was anybody better. I think that's not a hot take, but you really, I could fire a bunch of numbers at you, but here's the number. When he's on the field, Brown's deep pass percentage is league average.

When he's off the field, it's the highest in the league with 17%. And he's not off the field on third down. So just take that in the case. consideration that when he leaves the field coordinators say we have to get aggressive here because we're damn sure not going to be aggressive with this guy on the field when you look at the attention that was paid to him the game planning he's the first thing out of an offensive coordinator's mouth to start the week like don't let this guy wreck the the football game he's the Calvin Johnson a defensive players the remember when you saw Calvin Johnson with like three guys lined up in front of him um yards per play goes from 5.2 to 6

without him on the field. League best yards per play with him on the field, and that goes about a yard up every time he's off the field. So I think it's Miles Garrett, but this is a tough one to prove. Here you go, Bo. Give us your hate for the New England Patriots schedule. Whoa, Macon.

Let me do the talk in here, all right, buddy. There's no hate involved at all. The Patriot's schedule actually great performance from them this season. Third easiest strength of schedule. throughout the course of year, featuring key matchups, such as playing Jared Stidham and the AFC championship in Denver, you know, so Patriots are going to be in the Super Bowl here next week. Excited to watch them.

You know, incredibly talented team. Great job under Mike Brable. But let's be honest here. I like to call a spade a spade, keep it a buck, keep it a bean, as Cam Ward says. And that is the simple fact that the Patriots schedule was pretty easy this year. Nate, Nick Emanwari. Mick Eamon Worry, a guy that's playing out in Seattle, and unless you're on the West Coast, you might not be familiar.

But listen to this. From the safety position, on one of the best defenses in the league, obviously playing in the Super Bowl, 81 tackles, nine TFLs, four QB hits, 18 pressures, one interception, 11 past deflection, and two and a half sacks. We're good. That boy is good. He is good. And it's one of those things if you think about most valuable player. Usually in history, you would think it would come from one of the best teams.

And he's on one of the best teams and one of the best players on that defense. So if you're not going to pick a QB, I feel like the safety. Some might say the linebacker is the QB of the defense. But for certain teams, the safety is the QB of the defense. And that's who I will pick as my. MVP what was your Chris what was your nickname for him was it hitman it was he man worry but but also supposedly they already have some demon warre demon war oh demon war like demon worry oh demon warry yeah it doesn't fucking matter

the guy's incredible so great and wait he's a rook too right yeah and he's a rookie so it's just one of those things yeah south carolina yeah it's one of those things where it's going to be excited to see this this guy grow as a player and to come out and have a season that they're having and have a chance i mean does that does that like i wonder how that feels and how many guys have that chance to play a great season yeah be on a team as a rookie and then win the super bowl let alone make what helps you have green it helps you it's uh it's a chicken or an egg thing yeah like helps you have a great season i mean all the careers yeah but also He's a big reason.

He's a big reason they're dominant. Hell, yeah. Hey, why is it that when you donate a kidney, everyone loves you, but when you donate five kidneys, they call the police. That's good stuff. You guys just have these in the tuck?

No, they're from the internet. Okay. And the MVP, if it wasn't just the best QV award goes to Miles Garrett. Jesus. They're going to say it's fixed. Cleveland Browns. This is going to become a hate fest, dude. You don't understand. People in the studio, they hate your boy. Hold on.

All right, what do we got here? You know, my wife asked me if I'd seen the Dog Bowl. I said, I didn't know he could play sports. The next award is the Jamis Winston Red Zone Most Fun Player Award. It's for people like the fans. It's for people like the fans. What? The James Winston Red Zone Most Fun Player Award.

This one is for the guy who made your Sundays more enjoyable. The nominees are Cam Ward by Chris Long, Cam Scataboo by Bo Allen, and Trevor Lawrence by Nate Collins. What's so funny? Chris, take it away. I've read a funny joke. Oh, yeah?

Yeah. Cam Ward, just for the simple fact that he has the most arrogant arm in the league, it's just he was already, I mean, the team's not very good. I mean, statistically, it's hard to back this up with anything. He didn't have a year that I think like people are bought in 100%. But I think when we went to Tennessee in camp, which feels like 10 years ago, and talked to Borgonzi and all those guys in the Tennessee building, many of whom are not there anymore, I kept hearing Patrick Mahomes' name. And I was like, yeah, that's fucking rich. And then sometimes on Red Zone or on my side computer,

I would see Cam Ward make a throw that only a couple guys on the planet could make. And that's what has me in on the player. It's pretty easy to talk about completion percentage. It's easy to talk about interceptions, stats, this sort of thing. But I'm looking at the top end plays. That ball that he threw early in the season where he's, He's fading backwards. And basically it's an arm punt into the end zone to the opposite pylon and lands perfectly

in the receiver's hands. He did that what feels like three to four times on the season, some of the most difficult throws of the season. And why would you ever in your right mind be watching a Tennessee Titans game? He is banished to the red zone for his entire rookie season, but it was something to watch. Bo, Cam Scadaboo. Cam Scatabooia. I mean, dude, come.

This guy is so much fucking fun. I watch. He's like, thank you. Thank you, thank you very much. I'll be here all night. Hopefully not. Just the way he plays is like, he, yeah.

It's like he just fucking runs as hard as he can. Try to fuck people a lot. He seems like the kind of guy just wakes up and rips a white monster energy drink. I love that. You know, he played incredible. I think it was week six. Six against the Eagles, he had three touchdowns or whatever, and everyone was like, holy shit, him.

and Jackson Dart are going to be phenomenal to watch all season. Then we were robbed with that Red Zone, most fun player magic two weeks later when he completely dislocated his ankle. Also, like, you know, cinematic fashion, I guess you could say. Kind of crazy to watch that as well. But then he's kind of been following it up with some off-the-field antics. I saw him like shotgun and energy drink out of a cleat and shit like that. So just a fun got to watch with wish him all the best in his recovery.

And hopefully he can keep fucking trucking. dudes and having a great season coming back next year after his injury. Big fan of Ham Scataboo. Facts, you're almost there. Trevor Lawrence. The Jamis Winston Memorial, I mean, this award, it's obviously has to go to Trevor. Trevor's the only guy that, I mean, just like the person the award is named after is exciting and fun to watch, even if he does throw interceptions.

He was throwing interceptions at the start of the season, but then ended the season throwing touchdowns and dimes. And that was exciting for me and a lot of Jaguars fans. Actually, very exciting for 13 Sundays this year, which I think, you know, when you're thinking about the most fun player award, A player that can kind of hit the switch during the season going from throwing interceptions to majority throwing touchdowns and big plays. Yeah. I think that's fun. Helen Keller walks into a bar, then a table, and then a chair. That's the one you're laughing at.

You're waiting to get that out. I mean, actually, that's about pointed. No, that was appointed. Where's her handler? And the James Winston, terrific insight, all three of you. And the James Winston Red Zone Most Fun Player Award goes to

Cam Scataboo. Okay, thank you. Running back, New York Giants. He wins everything. Oh, you thought kids. Yeah, I was like, fuck, man. Oh, too kid. And everybody's going to be

shuffling around the Airbnb this week oh this motherfucker he wins everything winter weather has overtaken so much of the country in recent days snow these sorts of things yeah the shovel

now that was a groundbreaking invention poebo's mad at that joke bro I hated that one I hated that one all right our next award is one that makes very wait for years to come the most memorable or historic season. This can be positive or negative for a player or a team. What is something you won't

forget from this NFL season? The nominees are the Chiefs implosion, Chris Long. The Jets getting no interceptions, Bo Allen and Miles Garrett, Nate Collins. Chris, go ahead. Yeah, it's just crazy when you think about like dynasties and teams that won one plus Super Bowls, you know, like coming off a year, like the year they had before where they got shelled in the Super Bowl, I think people thought maybe it would be hard for them to get back, but to just totally implode and to lose their quarterback in the meantime. And actually, like, lose the division in earnest

and then lose out on the playoffs in earnest. It had nothing to do with Patrick Mahomes' health. They just weren't good enough. And the confounding part about it was they were better than last year. I think it's a very memorable year. I think a lot of people are going to remember this year, Chiefs fans, and everybody else who de facto hates whoever's on top like the Chiefs.

It's hard to forget something like this. You think about the New England chapter when Brady tore his ACL. I think Matt Castle came in and they found a way to win like 10 games that year. And they didn't really fall off until he left. So it's one of those things that's like, man, if you want the answer, like what dynasty is more impressive, Patriots or Chiefs? I mean, it looks like the verdict is in. 11 wins that year and I think the Patriots missed the playoffs that season.

And it's going to be so interesting seeing can they rebound, you know? I mean, like, this is crazy shit. A whole generation of kids grew up like with the Chiefs automatically winning the West and having like the one or the two seed. And it's not so. Bo Allen, the pickless New York Jets. Yeah, I mean, when you think about a team that wasn't able to get an interception all year, That's crazy, especially they consider considering the fact that they played in Jacksonville against the Jaguars and Trevor Lawrence.

Still weren't able to come away with any interceptions. It's kind of wild. But, you know, Aaron Glenn is a defensive head coach. It's got to be something that's going to keep him up at night for a long time. You know, they had Soss Gardner on the team there in the beginning of the season. Tradeaway a lot of key defensive talent. you got to think that this isn't going to be something that's going to continue for them, considering how many loaded up draft picks they have and a defensive-minded head coach,

think of that nature. But just when you see that, no fucking interceptions all year is truly historic in its own right, in a not positive way. So, congrats. Congrats, New York. Love that for you. Facts. I mean, most memorable historic season, how can it not be Miles Zee?

Garrett. And then on top of being now the sack king holding the single season sack record, it's just doing it on a trash-ass team, a team where I don't know how many games they had a lead this year. So you're out there getting sacks, whatever it is. Garbage time, not garbage time. It doesn't matter. Not a favorable situation for rushing. ends and you still find a way to go out there every game and get a bucket or two or five or whatever you need to help your team potentially win some games and I just feel like it's very just being a fan of football and obviously a ex-D lineman just watching someone like Miles Garrett play every week and every snap just kind of the same way balls to the wall just trying to get it done

It doesn't matter the score or what's going on. It's something special, honestly. Well, and it's going to be hard to forget the last month where he was chasing it. Yeah. And teams were doing everything they could. Even that. And then on top of it, it came down until the last game

against your division rival. And no one will talk about that later on. Like, obviously it's the stats, and obviously luckily he got it. But, like, it's one of those things you think about if he didn't get it in the one-ifs. And, like, will people give credit to, like, hey, teams were literally strategizing,

hey, we're going to play this entire game and not let him get a bucket. We're going to change our offense and our schemes to make sure that he doesn't get this record on us and he still was able to get it. And the Greenlight Award for Most Memorable or Historic Season goes to The New York Jets

not recording a single interception all season long. Do I clap like Nicole Kidman? You ever seen Nicole Kidman clap? It's fucking creepy. Have you ever seen her clap? Yeah. You look it up. Look up Nicole Kidman clapping.

Take a second out of this. It's magnificent award. Speaking of award shows, we should just use this every time somebody wins. Look. Why? They're going to go back there. Look at that fucking, you know how to clap. She has a broken wrist.

Also has, like, massive mitts, dude. Look at that shit, dude. Nicole Kiven doesn't know how to fucking clap. Anyways. Calbs, I'm terrified of elevators, so I'm going to start taking steps to avoid them. Smart. The next award is the Joe Flacco Award.

Wait, we renamed it the Philip Rivers Award for the old guy of the year. Whoever it's named after, it's just definitely not the Pete Carroll Award. Award. The nominees are, Trent Williams. Nominated by Chris Long, Derek Henry, nominated by Bo Allen and Cam Jordan, nominated by Nate Collins. Chris? Trent Williams is 37 years old and he's still a relatively dominant tackle in the National Football League. It's a key part of an offense that I mentioned earlier that really didn't have a lot of talent but scored a lot of points at times this year. I just think about like one of the hardest positions to play into your late 30s has to be offensive tackle.

And it's evidenced by the fact there's not a lot of guys that have done it at a high level. If you Google guys that played tackle late in their career, I mean, obviously there's the Jackie Slaters of the world. Jason Peters, but Jason Peters not dominant at that stage in his career. Trent Williams still a top whatever you want to call it, 5, 10 tackle in the league at his age. 37 years old. Pretty fucking impressive. I didn't want to give it to Philip Rivers. The award is named after him.

And quite frankly, I thought about Mercedes-Lewis, but I don't think he was out there enough. Trent Williams is out there all the time being Trent Williams, 37 years young. Bo, Derek Henry. Yeah, I mean, Chris just mentioned how hard it is to play offensive line in an elite fashion when you're late 30s, completely agree, but another position where there's, you know, pretty limited shelf life is obviously running back,

especially when you're as massive as Derek Henry is. He's 32 years old, six foot two. He feels like he's like 260 pounds, but he's been doing at a high level for a long, long time and added some more cornerstones of his electric career in 2025, surpassing Jim Brown for six most rushing touchdowns in NFL history. And that was in week six. So I mean, definitely, you know, Eric Henry's getting a little miles on that tread, so to speak, but he's still an absolute dangerous running back and not somebody that you ever really want to see with a full head of steam. So he's still King Henry for a reason, and I thought he had some great fucking moments this year as a slightly older man.

So that's why he's, you know, he's my, what the fuck is the name of this award? That's why he's my Philip Rivers Award, or old guy of the year. Definitely not the Pete Carroll Award award. Dr. Fax, Cam Jordan. And just like these other two award nominees, Camp Jordan at a staggering 36 years old in season 15, having 10 and a half sacks again on a team.

They excited us a little bit with the Tyler Shuck experiment going on down there, but the Saints were not a team that were leading a lot of games. So for a guy in season 15 to go out there and get 10 and a half buckets, I just feel like it's something that should be talked about. And he definitely should be up for the Flacco, no wait. We named it Philip Rivers, but definitely not the Pete Carroll O'Gye Award. Award. Award. In the Joe Flacko Award, wait, we renamed it the Philip Rivers Award for the old guy of

the year. Whoever it's named after, it's just definitely not the Pete Carroll Award Award award. Goes to Derek Henry. Running back. Wow. They were really trying to fuck you, huh, Nate? Baltimore Ravens. Business as usual, huh? Man, business is usual, huh? Man, business is... Don't worry, Nate. Your flowers are coming, my friend. Oh, man. It's unreal. Unreal. You know, Nate, my wife told me to stop in person. A impersonating a flamingo, so I had to put my foot down. Mm-hmm.

I like that word. You know, most people don't even know they stand on one foot. You did? Well, I do. I got the joke, but... No, I mean, just in general, if you're out there, you don't know flamingo stand on one foot. That's kind of sad. Is it sad?

That means you never watch National Geographic, at least once. Man, I'm going to see a flamingo in real life in a couple weeks, yeah. Yeah, in Africa. They got a ton of them there. It's amazing. Yeah, they all stand on two legs, though. Where's a laugh track? There's no, it's not a joke.

Okay, so. They're different. They're different? Yep. They stand on business out there. They stand on business. I feel you. The Fantasy Football Time Machine Award,

if you took a time machine from August, until right now, you'd be most shocked by this player, performance, or team. This will be our final award, where Chris Bo and Nate submit their nominees. And then I get to really take over the proceedings, have a bit of a monologue planned here here shortly.

The nominees are Chris Kevin Byard, Bo, George Pickens, Nate, the Chiefs, Ravens, and Bengals not making the playoffs. Chris. Oh, Kevin Byard. He was in Philly.

Does everybody remember that? A lot of people thought he was probably washed. He ended up this year. I think he was, was he all pro this year? I mean, first team all pro. name the team's defensive player of the year. Led the NFL with seven interceptions.

He was just all over the field and he was everywhere. The football was. A big shout out to Dennis Allen, especially not playing behind a group that created a lot of pressure. That secondary was pretty cagey. And it was led by a guy that two years ago, most people thought was on the way out. But this year he's all pro.

That is Kevin Byard. Bo, George Pickens. George Pickens. I love watching George Pickens. I love his energy. He is kind of crazy. Also crazy successful season with the Cowboys. The Steelers traded him to Dallas and May before the season started. He was always, I mean, he was very good player for the Steelers. But the highest yards receiving he had in a season was 11,000, basically almost 1,200. Sorry, not 11,000, almost 1,200 yards in 2023. That sure would be making.

That would be worthy of many awards. But in 2025 for Dallas, he had 93 catches for almost 1,500 yards, which is a pretty significant jump. And then earned his first career Pro Bowl, Nod, and AP second team, all pro honors. So definitely took a pretty big jump in his career and was part of that successful Cowboys offensive attack. And honestly, just really fucking fun player to watch.

I think he is kind of hilarious. and slightly unhinged in the best possible way. He's a fun, fun player to watch on the field. And that's why he gets my award for the fantasy football time machine nominee. Nate, a trio of teams not making the playoffs. Yeah, and they left something else. Like, what if I told you in August that the Chiefs, Ravens, and Bengals will all miss the postseason, but also Buffalo will not win the AFC.

It was a crazy year. And when you think about that, if I said that to you, at the beginning of the season, you would probably laugh. You would laugh and you would say, who the hell do you have winning games in the AFC? And end of the year is just one of those things that we actually did get a postseason without all those teams. Will it happen again anytime soon like this? I wonder. I wonder, are the Chiefs on the downward? The Chiefs.

Are they on the downward hill? And are they going to be the odd man out for a next few years? Or is this a little valley? Or is this something? Is this the time where other teams like Jacksonville, I mean, the Pat's get back in there. The Titans have a new coach. Do they sneak in somewhere?

So it's going to be interesting to see the AFC moving on forward the next couple of years. It's all downhill from here. Are you people, do you think that's a positive or a negative connotation? It's all downhill from here. I think it's positive. Positive. Yeah. You think a negative?

Yeah. Yeah. Like it's all downhill from here. Yeah, but like. Usually I think about it. Oh, there's a great argument for it being positive. I understand. Momentum and such.

Yeah. What do you mean it's like, hey, man? Hey, I'm at the top of the mountain. It's only going to be worse. Mentor more, bro. It's all down the better, huh? That's right. And the fantasy football time machine award,

if you took a time machine from August until right now, you'd be most shocked by this player performance or team winner is the Chiefs, Ravens, Bingles, not making the playoffs. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Those players all.

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2006 and you can catch me and LaGarra blunt doing some great stuff with zone darrett arizona this week at waste management check us out back half of the award show these awards were created and voted on by the green light academy award number 10 is best prediction or take we fancy ourselves as ball knowers here at the Greenlight Pod. So the next award is for best prediction or take. We have had some good ones. Here are the runners up. What if I told you you could still have Joe on Sunday? What would you say? Trade for Joe Flacko. Trade for Joe Flacco. I can't get the Joe Flacco playing catch with Amari Cooper out of my head from a couple years ago. He's the ageless wonder. There is a scenario. Let me paint you a picture where all the coaches get replaced

this year. But I could imagine, and it's not too far fast, a scenario where two, three, maybe four coaches getting replaced in this division. That's a bit of a hot take, but it's a crazy thought exercise. And the nine time defending Kansas City Chief, AFC West winning club, it's going to, Fox's going to strike midnight here at some point. Honestly, this is the move for me. I think this is making a strong group even more strong. And we look at it and make so much sense. all right nice hey it's time for man we were on fire this year

huh yeah I wish you to throw it up my feeling to Steelers take that I had that would have been a good one in there you know I miss that one but work out I feel good about that one and there too you know like Seahawks win the west

high on the Panthers Seahawks too you had the Broncos too you said they would be 13 and 4 you got that right Peyton coach of the year yeah and the best The prediction award goes to our own Dr. Fax. Nate Powell.

I love Mike Rable. I just feel like we've all been saying it, and we've seen hints of it. I think Drake May is going to be a player. He can be an electric quarterback for them. They got a roster. I mean, they got Stefan Diggs. Yeah, he's coming off an injury, but if you can get production from him and help your young quarterback get more

confidence throwing to a guy like that, if he's going to perform well, I just feel like they have, and Mike Brable is a guy that kind of know how that locker room is going to be and what he's going to tolerate and what's going to be going on. And just knowing that, I feel like guys are going to be in the position to make plays. Nate, it says here you now briefly accept the award. I do. I do accept the award. I am here. And I accept the award. Would you like to thank anybody, yeah. Shout out to Drake May and Mike Vrable for making me look like really, really great at the start of the year. I mean, they could have did what Pete Carroll did.

And if I had two teams just make me look that bad, like it could have got, it could have got grim this season. But the pets, they kept me alive the whole year. And Rick May's play and MVP caliber play the entire season is really the big thing. factor to think in this equation. Congratulations, Nate. Thank you. Here at the Greenlight Pod, we also make mistakes occasionally. So the next award is for worst predictions or takes.

Roll the runners up. His name's Chase Young. And I'm rooting for him to be the 2025 defensive player of the year. After all the hate thrown his way on this podcast. Coach of the year. Let me give you Todd Bowls just for the fuck of it. Nobody's going to look back at these. AFCW.

I am going with the Las Vegas Raiders. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. What that? Gino! And do we have a video for the best? We do.

All right. Let's do it. Give me your MVP. B.P. prediction. I'm going Jalen Hertz. I think this year, the Eagles potentially make it all way back to the Super Bowl again. But I feel like he's going to be at the top of the list, battling with Derek Henry for the most touchdowns, most rushing touchdown.

Jalen Hertz, who Nates in the chat saying Trevor's better than him. You know, I know you're, what have you done for me lately? You can't honestly believe that Trevor Lawrence is better than Jailen Hertz. I do you. Right now, men live, women live, numbers dope. He was, right? The winner of best and worse, Nate Collins. Nate, briefly accept the award, please.

I'll accept this award, but I'll take this on myself. Poor planning for that day and getting those picks together because how does that even make sense? sometime my trolling brain it takes over like my real thoughts and it's oh we hadn't noticed that why why would I think jalen hurts the media MVP if I'm throwing all my eggs in the basket saying that the pets because of drake may is going to the Super Bowl so you would have thought I would have been like hey Drake may but I don't know I did think that the Eagles had a chance to to kind of rub the tush push in everyone's face. Oh, wow.

Yeah, you know, just keep it going, Rakishi style, if you know about that. Rikishi? You know that? You know that? You're wearing pink eye. Rikishi. You don't know who Rikishi is?

He's the W.W.E. wrestler. And he rubs his ass in people's face? That was his finisher. Rikishi? That was his finish. Oh, I remember this guy. So I...

He's 60 years old now. I thought... By the way, this is random. I just seen the video of a fan. At it. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, what the fuck?

That was his finisher. The original tush push. Oh, no. How about reading the script for, well, wrestling is not necessarily fake, but how about reading the script and seeing you? You have to be at the end of that. Yeah. It's tough one. No, so I just thought this year, if the Eagles, if the Eagles really got it going offensively,

we would see the tush push more than ever. And if we did, like in the past, I thought that would have. You might see like 30 rushing touchdowns. You know, maybe. No need to explain, man. Many people thought that he would win the MVP. To the person who stole my copy of Microsoft Office,

I will find you. You have my word. That's a good. That joke really excelled, making. Nice. Oh. Oh. making some powerful points oh wow holy shit

but you have a great outlook all right is there a reason why beau is switching his glasses is he like promoting thanks for noticing dude yeah no just a little bit just a little bit within the bit you know we're doing a whole glasses thing i'm kind of swapping them in and i'm I want to see if you guys would pick up on it. You did. Nice. Very astute.

These lights aren't bothering me like they usually do now. Our 12th award of the evening is the NFL meme of the year. This year was an insane year for the NFL and had a lot of iconic internet moments. So the next award is for NFL meme of the year. The runners-up are Daniel Jones, Bloody Mouth, Halee Williams, Grading Cheese, Ben Johnson's torso. Fair down. Six inches short.

You know, never trust in Adam. They make up everything. And the award for NFL meme of the year goes to J.J. McCarthy. Yes. Totally, dude. J.J. Absolutely. Did you see the one where they made Jailen Hertz?

J.J. McCarthy, dude. That was unreal. AI is diabolical. But he was like mixed race. It's crazy, dude. It's like the DeCabelle. Oh my God. When he plays the white guy, it's just funny.

Our next award doesn't even have runners up. We had a runaway winner who has a lot of respect for everyone. even players or teams or coaches he wants to give constructive feedback to because he's so respectful. So the winner of the respectful king of the year is Chris Long. I respect a hell out of him. I got a lot of respect for the Vikings. He's a guy I respect a lot. And I got so much respect for him.

And I got a lot of respect for the Chargers. I got a lot of fucking respect for this guy. Respect, respect, respect, respect. Respect, respect. Respect, respect. I respect the military as much as anybody. Respect, respect. From the military.

You got to respect the military. Respect. I respect women, too. Got to. You know? Well, well, it's been a full year. I'm looking at, I'm still looking at Jay-J. McCarthy is. It's been a full year, Chris.

What? Are we prepared if we run into our friend at Super Bowl? Which person? That might beg to differ about the women? Oh, yeah. No. She's going to be like... She's going to have a point because I don't think we had any female guests on this year.

We have mean on. I hope we see that person. Me too. Me too, me too. By the way, that was 86 season respects. This from the production team. You know, you got to preface everything now because everybody's a little bitch, much like the audience. Even the athletes are like that now.

True. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. But I got a lot of respect for everybody. Respect. Respectfully. You're all little bitches.

Respectfully. I have a reversible jacket, and I am excited to see how it turns out. I heard you could wear it inside or outside. That's right. Our next award is the Greenlight Moment of the Year Award. This award also doesn't have any runners-up. We had another runaway winner.

This is given to the most memorable. thing to happen to the pod this season and no one came close to this moment. This award goes to someone who said, who checks the location of an Airbnb after booking an Airbnb with one bathroom

for eight dudes in E-Course, Michigan? That's right. So the winner of the Greenlight Mellow the Year Award is Cowboy Reed. We're almost getting us killed by booking an Airbnb in E-Course, Michigan. No. Two bathrooms.

Honestly, honestly, I'm glad he did. What a memory. Look at this shit. Let's look at this door. What? Bro. I think that I don't think I've been the same since I opened that fucking crawl space. I'm gonna sell.

I think the size of this fucking hole, huh? Don't know where that goes? Come on into my base. Which is definitely fine. It really wasn't that bad. The part that I loved was when we left. And then we got to the hotel. Fuck that thing.

I don't think I've been happier all season than when we checked into that hotel. We were giddy, dude. That was a good hotel. You popped up from behind the bar. Yeah, dude. They had like a bar on the third floor. Like somebody's basement. Calves, the stage is yours to accept this award.

I accept this award. Great award. I'm stoked to even get an award. I'm very happy. I didn't know I was getting awards. So this is great. Yeah. To be named Best Moment.

If that's the best moment, that's incredible. That was very memorable. That was awesome. That's dope. E-course, Michigan. You know, every year they add a new password rule, uppercase, lowercase, number, symbol. You know what I'm saying?

My password is now longer than most of my relationships. Is there a safe word for these jokes so they can stop? We're nearly. done. My ceiling isn't the best, but it's up there. Raise it out. I cannot wait to, I mean, hit you with a baseball bat or something. In perhaps final award.

Canuple. Is the best backdoor. I present myself with this award. The Backdoor Award is given to me for beating Chris and Stanford Steve in a season-long gambling competition. I may not have a kitchen. Who wrote this? Or have played in the NFL, or gone to Stanford, Stanford, or been SVP's caddy.

But damn it, do I know ball. So Calbs, bring me the trophy. Oh, well, thank you. Look at this. Oh, it has my name on it and everything. Backdoor goat. Wow. Thank you.

Wow. What? Wow. The greatest of all time taken. that's not what it says congratulations that's exactly what you just said the greatest of all time backdoor goat that that means he could be on the other end of it greatest of all time could be you said taken into the back door he could be entering the back door which brings me to this i'd like to thank my family especially my wife cape for dynamite segue giving me the time necessary

to come up with 60 winners over the season. Backdoor winner. Can we have a door cover. I mean. I'd like to thank Chris, Steve, Calbs, of course, for manning the whiteboard all season long. Oh, so that's why you felt, you felt bad. You beat them in the backdoor cover, so the award show. You're like, you know what?

I'm going to, I'm a puckered Chris up. That's what it is. Everything revolves around me, guys, just like in your heads. Is that really like monogram with your name on it and everything? Yeah, it has the name on it. He just made that up. It says a ward of excellence and then backdoor goat. I didn't know if it was green screen or not.

No, I'm going to cherish this. This is great. They have a beer out of the lake. There you go. Yeah. Or a hot water. Have a beer out of it now. When you have the beer, will you grab it with both hands to take a sip?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah? Nice. Pour it right into my ass. right into your back door what the fuck and Bo's talking

nobody can hear him that's the best joke of the day bacon I give you the award for best joke of the day that truly got a belly laugh for me that was phenomenal I'll pour it right into my ass

it's a good one well fellas those are the awards it's been a great season we'll see you all from San Francisco it's out in California Any parting words, anybody? No.

Our next rip, we're going to be live on Friday, Super Bowl preview, live from our San Francisco headquarters presented by BetMGM. Make sure you check us out. That'll be on Friday on the YouTube channel. So sick. Congratulations to all the award winners and nominees. What a terrific NFL season brought to you by, in part, this year podcast. great work super tight great job me good job me buddy job making thank you bobo all right guys take care