Green Light with Chris Long - Stanford Steve! NFL Week 5 Best Bets & NFL Quarter Season Awards!

Episode Date: October 5, 2024

Chris, Macon and Stanford Steve give their EXPERT picks for the NFL's WK5 slate - the games to bet, the games to stay away from and the absolute toss ups. They also give out their Quarter Season NFL Awards - the best coaches, players and executives through week 4 of the 2024 NFL Season. (00:00) - Intro (4:35) - TNTM (6:30) - NFL Week 4 Best Bet Recap (10:03) - NFL Week 5 Best Bets (21:46) - Quarter Year Awards for the 2024 NFL Season Want your Green Light Merch so you can look exactly like Chris and the fellas? Hit the website below and get kitted! https://stores.kotisdesign.com/yotehouse/products 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]‬ Send any Talent Search submissions to: [e-mail] Include any video of your talents, takes and bits as well as a little bit about yourself. Love hearing from the Green Light fans. 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. https://paddleva.com/ Green Light Spotify Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/951jyryv2nu6l4iqz9p81him9?si=17c560d10ff04a9b Spotify Layup Line: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=675d445ddb824c42 Green Light Tube YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxWFAA-wuB7osdiAJyLOcw 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

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Welcome to the Greenlight podcast. Thank you for jumping on today. A quick little episode, we've got NFL Week 5 best bets. Chris Maken, Stanford, Steve, run through their favorite picks from the Week 5 slate, and they give out quarter season awards. The best performing coaches, players, and executives from a quarter of the way through the 2024 NFL And enjoy today's episode. Catch it on YouTube as well. We'll see you on Monday for the NFL week five reactions.

Steve, how's Berkeley? It's good. I asked you if you were born here because I thought you were born here because a lot of people like the same things you like here. I was born in in Redondo, well, not Redondo Beach. What's the area? Santa Monica. Oh, I'm here.

I'm a big surfer. No. Have you ever surfed? Fuck no. I'm not getting eaten by a shark. over a honey making it make it

no I've never surfed but I like being thrown tennis balls in the surf what do you like my golden retriever

yeah to a degree like my friends and family get hit by the waves you try to make stunning catches it's actually

I got you it's a good out of banks game great you got it guys tired those kids out guys where do we start

I think we get right into pro football this week and then we finish with some college ball. All right. Make him wanted to give out quarter year awards. I proposed it. No, we're going to do it. Oh, okay.

All right. Oh, wait, no, he goes to his computer. And that face. Look at the face. Looks like he just hit himself with that golf. Never mind. Let's not do that because he's not ready for it. Jane and Daniels wins everything anyway.

So, yes. There's no other award. Unfortunately, he also posed Jaden Daniels as a topic, and I think my listeners are getting really tired of me talking about Jaden Daniels. So we're going to give that kid the day off. Hey, C. Long, have you sent Cowboy Reed your Thursday Night Time Machine pick? No, I'll do it right now. If you want to say yours aloud, mine is in.

Let's just do it. Oh, his is in? Mine is in, and I think that we are going to have the exact same score with the same. score with the exact same team winning. Okay. I'll give me the first since yours is in. I'll let Cowboy Reed say mine after you go. So Steve, number one, this is an under game.

Yeah, I was hoping, I was listening to a Roslopod. I was hoping, I love the way you say 12. I'm hoping one of your scores is 12. What do I say when I say 12? Yeah, you say 12. There's like a emphasis on, you get somewhere on that TW, that no one else does. Really?

There's like a CH on the end, yeah. Do it again. 12. Yeah. Gosh, Steve, I'm hearing 12. Yeah, I hear 12. That's like I got on Rich Eisen's show the other day. And I said, you know, Rich, remember last week when you said,

Hey, Chris, are the Buffalo Bills the best team in the AFC? And he goes, that's not how I heard it on your show. And then he ran the clip of the show. and it sounded exactly like that. Okay, I'm going, I'll go. I don't think people understand when they see the scores. It's not really a prediction of the exact score, but I'll try to keep it.

20 to 18, Atlanta Falcons. Oh, wow, I was wrong. We've got a straight up this week. Macon says Bucks 24, Falcons 20. Yeah. I mean, I can see it go either way, but I do see an under more than anything. It's Thursday night football. It sucks.

It's under every week. Well, yeah. Hey, I texted you the other night, Steve, over in Miami. Yeah, you're disgusting. Just an unbelievable ride. How about the sequence of play calls, though? Like, just. What's happening there?

They're up 12, right? At the end of that game? Yeah. Then they got it down. They got a first down down on like the three. And then there was a timeout. I believe her, that was a two minutes.

They were going to mathematically have to run plays or kick a field goal or take a knee and give them a ball. Taking me. No one takes these anymore. It's amazing. You don't even have to take both knees. Just take one knee. It's just great that they don't. And I'm kind of starting to wonder if, like, somebody with Tennessee organization,

had the under because the play calling at the end of that game, it was not to score. No. Why not? Maybe they got boosted Mason Rudolph's confidence, too. Like, hey, he came in and we scored this. That was a favorite of mine. And we haven't talked since the Cleveland and Vegas under 37. Another 37 total game.

That was a thrill ride for the ages. I mean, they were 30 mid-third quarter. And Deshaun Watson hit the over and it got called back. It was amazing. It was amazing. Charles Snowden, big play. play this weekend. Alameda Zakias, big play

this past week. A lot of Wahoos making plays in the NFL. Let's go back through the locks last week. I don't even know what, I mean, I'm not even sure anymore. You quit any? No, I just, this is a week I don't care.

Well, you got your Jags. You complained about the Jags and they covered. Well, the Jags covered. The Falcons didn't cover by half a point. I mean, it's ridiculous. Basically, a pick-em, but it's not. I don't remember what else we did. What were the standings? I saw Steve was two, two, two and one possibly?

Two, two and one for Steve. Macon went three and two, and two. And Chris, you had a two and three week. Macon surging. And I will say, Chris, the two bets that you were least excited about, you least confident in, Jaguars and Raiders, you hit both. The Raiders hit both those. Nate Wiggins owes me money.

The over was like, I mean, he was in his hands. right at the end of that game. What else didn't hit? Falcons, as I mentioned. What was the other loss? You had Patriots 49ers under and Bill's Ravens over. That was dumb. Bill's Ravens over, yeah.

Do you guys want to complain about any close calls? Yeah, Chiefs are awful, and you knew they weren't going to cover, but they got to push, and bears kicked the field ball to hit the over. Didn't need it. I don't remember my picks. Couldn't have been on defeating.

Making you hit on Rams, Bears over, Eagles, bucks, over. Yeah, I want to get you in that one. Yep. It was an over week. And Ravens minus two and a half and then miss Steelers minus one and a half and Cardinals minus three. Yeah, miss the Cardinals by a margin. Yeah.

The Jaden Daniels kid. I'm not going to break the rule, though. All right. Do we want to give out these locks? And totals. real fast. Chris still in the lead at 12 and 8. Macon, 11, 7, and 2, Steve 9, 10, and 1.

Okay. I had a commanding lead. Did he work? No, anymore. Back to the original order, I believe Macon goes first, I go second, Chris goes third. Oh. You are correct. Okay. Are you ready? Born ready.

Are you ready? Yeah, we're going to Houston. We're going to score a lot of points over 47 and a half. How does that lose? If, I don't know, like, I don't want to, I'm not taking the other side. I'm not making a play opposite you, but I am saying like devil's advocate is mixing up this week? He should be playing.

That's a big deal. Yeah, it is. Hey, Chris, the Texans just sent Kingston a personalized jersey in the mail. It looks dope. You for real? I'm for real. White or? They're like midnight navy.

H town. They're H town that they're debuting this weekend. Oh. Does it say Kingston on the back? Yeah, it says Kingston on the back. It's dope. Holy shit. Why didn't you bring it in?

It's right over here. It just arrived today. Let's see it. They're just going to keep it a giant mystery at Studio. Yeah, exactly. Talk about it. And it's four feet from the screen that he can't read. Oh, all right.

That's pretty dope. Yeah, but they're not going to wear white pants. They're going to have the same color. That's just... Yeah, but this is for Kingston for the rest of his life. He can shadow box that thing. What's he going to do? Wear it around?

Yeah. Steakball game of the week. Patriots, Dolphids, giving New England. I see more fight. Yeah. You're right. I will take the Pittsburgh Steelers. I feel like one of you guys might get there.

I don't know what the line is. I'm sure Matt's going to juice it up to like they're laying six all of a sudden, like fucking 20 minutes ago was to pick them now. It's six. What is it? Two and a half. Two and a half. It's two and a half.

Yeah, I'll take two. If they win, that game goes way under, right? 44 right now. I don't know about that. Like, who's rushing the passer for Dallas? I see. I just think Pittsburgh wants to punish them. Not play fast at all.

Man, listen. if you're Pittsburgh, they show me a little something in the second half. You don't have to wait for people to get there to throw the football. And I look at Dallas and I'm like, you can run the ball on them. You can throw the ball on them. I just don't think Dallas is very good. You're up, Chris. Oh, I'm up again.

Give me Jets, Vikings over. Whoa, against the grain. 40 and a half. I did play in London. How's the surface? Slick. They want the ball to skip over the pitch. And then the people in Brazil tried to claim the same thing.

They were like, oh, it's a soccer situation. It's actually good grass. I'm like, yeah, well, you don't understand. Like, for American football, it's not good grass. Same thing in London. So you got to wear the right cleats. Got it. Two inches.

People falling down. People falling down, you know? Just wear the two inches. This tackle we're in the end zone. Shack Griffin on the ground. Only one team, worse than New England in the league. That's the Jags locker room. Lost.

Not lost. Lost. Not lost. Why are they giving points? Give me Jacksonville. They're going to win. Damn it. And they're wearing the unies.

They're going to win. Steve, that's the next pick I have here. I don't care. Now, that's a good sign. It means we're aligned. When we're aligned, we win. All right. All right.

Here we go. Denver Broncos at home. Give me the Denver Broncos minus three against the Raiders. Give me the New York Jets in London plus two and a half points against the Minnesota Vikings. Hmm. I've changed my motherfucking pick. Under 40 and a half Panthers Bears. It's 41.

Even better. Wow, that's the only time this year so far. It's been in the favor of all of us three. We are in unity. I don't even care. Another giggle. Another giggle. You're up.

Oh, sick. Give me the whoever. Spin the fucking wheel. All right. I got, what do I got so far? Pittsburgh. And the Jets Vikings over. Yeah.

You mean the Cardinals team total over 21 and a half. There you go. What cares. When it lands on 21, I'm just going to go back there and flip all the machines over. Yeah. I don't know whether or not to tell you this, but you're still up. Now we're doing co-hosting stuff. You know what?

You know what? What? I'll take the fucking Vikings. Oh. All right. Welcome to the Thunderdome. That's what I would say to you. I got a commanding one game lead.

He said that and he sat back and crossed his arms. I'm not messing with that guy. Me. Over. Or wait, no, I already. What do I got? One left? Two left.

Two left. One total. One wild card. What's the commander's team total? 23 and a half You can't stop them Over Wow

You wouldn't believe the talk radio in D.C. It's unbelievable. It's like a switch went on. MVP. Disgusting. Well, currently

we're about to get in these quarter awards. The Ravens Bengals under 49 and a half. That's what They want you to do. You still got your wild card left and you do anything you want.

Okay. I'm going to take... Get crazy. I'm going to take the under in New England. 36 and a half points. Okay. I'll take the over in Baltimore, since you. You son of a bitch.

You son of a bitch. I was about to do that too. Did you know what I do? Because I really did think about this one. Give me the over. in New England. Key numbers 37. I've been really good reading these 37 games.

36 to a half, you say? Oh, what is it? Yep, 36.5. You guys are being weird this week. No matter what happens, these standings are going in opposite directions after this week. Wow. Hey, I'm here for the gangbang, Steve. Woo.

Woo! All right, we need some half points, pimp. Yeah, we do. Let's start with you. Oh, God. I'm all around key numbers here. Every single one of mine is a key number, as they say. I'll take Jacksonville. Gotcha. Give me, I'll take the Broncos down to two and a half, please.

Thank you. I mean, there's nothing, I don't know what to do here. Hey, one of the guys that I pay, can you tell me which half point? I need to take. The Steelers. None of them actually. None of them hook. None of them hook.

That should be a strategy in this thing, huh? Well, you never know what Reed and Matt's lines are going to be, so they just make it up whenever you pick the side. To be fair, they do type it out. They move, Steve. They move. You can take. After you type them. I think you guys jinx them because you type.

I think the game that's most likely to push is Pittsburgh. but my man you can bring a big time push into play with cardinals team total of 21 no here's the big time push I want I'm gonna tell you the big time push I want big time push other week 26 24 Pittsburgh something like that no Pat's Dolphins to 37 fuck it fuck it what I said Steelers to two Steelers to two If it comes down to it again, who cares? Right. Mere hours from now, no one is going to care about any of this. Exactly.

And then I'll say when we actually care about the actual bets we're making. Yeah. Yep. It's going to be like the whole board. By the way, I like Buffalo too. I almost did that. But just so you guys know, on the record, are you Buffalo or are you Houston? this weekend, Steve.

Oh, I can't wait to see Houston's D-Line against Buffalo's O-line. I'm going to say games in Houston. Kingston got a Houston jersey giving Houston. I was Houston, then I was Buffalo, and now I'm Buffalo. I think it's Buffalo. I think I'm Buffalo. Chris, do you feel better about Seattle for four games in than you did before the season? I feel just about how I thought I feel about him.

Gotcha. Yeah, I picked him to win the, the, West. I know. But, like, I didn't pick them to win the West. I thought they'd be world beaters. I thought San Francisco might struggle. And here we are.

I think Seattle's really good. Seattle can be very good. I mean, like... They get those guys. But, I mean, that game was what everybody wants in a Monday night game, points, big plays, this and that. And each team had five starters out. Yeah.

And I'm going to tell you what I didn't want, that uniform match up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Hilltoppers on tonight. They got some, some eyes on the side of their head. That's next Thursday, I believe, for the red out. Yeah.

I love that, I love that helmet they got. I think we could get you one of those. Really? Can you give me a Hilper helmet? The one with the eye, yeah, with Big Red. No way. That's one of my favorite mascots in the whole league. When I was a youth baseball player, our coaches funded an AAU team,

and they asked a couple of us to decide on a name. And we decided on the hilltoppers. I love the hilltoppers. Chris, I pride myself on traveling with the ugliest bag when I travel. That's my best. That's amazing. There he is. There he is.

Big red. Do you pride yourself on spending the night in the ugliest hotel room, as Beckham pointed out, because that is hideous. Is it that bad? It's pretty bad. It's not. big you had a mural in teetown yeah that was that thing it weren't you should transition to a different room i'm not i'm not on that scale all right so uh quarter season awards make you want to go first

yeah i got an award just for you to while making goes here uh everybody should give a coordinator of the year award coordinator of the year i mean vance joseph is up there for me right now Like through, but like that would be more of a dark horse thing. Like I think like B-Flow has been an obvious candidate. Kevin O'Connell. I mean, I thought until the other night, Joe Brady was doing as good job as anybody, I think Cliff Kingsbury deserves some love. I mean, let's just let's just, let's hand out some flowers, man.

Yeah. Shane Waldron, opposite of that. You know, Louana Rumo hasn't been as good as I'm used to. Some of the personnel issues have been a problem. How about Taylor down in Jacksonville for like the opposite end of that discussion? And you know, it's hard because so many of these head coaches are play callers on either side too. I do think Zach Gore did a really good job the other night. It also helps some Kyle Hamilton's on the field.

How about that first third down? Just filling it. Hey, we didn't even mention Matt LaFleur, who's probably a candidate for Coach of the Year. We give him making time to pull out his awards. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's like a bunch of those head coaches are play callers on both sides, so it's hard. That's like, try to do coordinator. Okay, let's go around the horn here.

Who's got the awards? Coach of the year, quarter pole. You know, well, there's only one on the feet of team. Yeah, I would lean Kevin O'Connell. Like, you know, people are going to talk about LaFloor because what he's been able to do, or maybe there's somebody else in your mind.

I got one. Who is it? Oh, I mean, Andy Reid, too. Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh. I'm really impressed with that team. I don't know why I should be surprised, but I am. I thought this was the year they would not be 500 or better.

They're going to be. Might win the division, three and one. Well, they got to do something about offensive touchdowns. You need those. Megan, I agree with you, if they can keep playing this way and like, you know, if this four-game sample sizes any indication of what it's going to be at the end of the year, like then most games are going to win rock fights and then every now and again they get outscored that could be how it goes and they can win 10 11 games doing that but i do think like at some point they're going to have to loosen the reins a little bit on fields you know and the offensive line that worries me you got guys that you're down already um you know james daniels i think he's on i are sam alu's not playing so yeah like this is the time to buy him high or sell him high rather if you're looking at coach you because this would be the time i don't

think over the course of a season this is all going to stay the way it is for the steelers steve who you got coached here last year i got laughed at i'm staying with it todd bulls i love that man dude honestly i mean i know they him and light make a decision together on an offensive a coordinator, but I think the Liam Cohen hire has been awesome. And there are real differences in the way they played this year to last year. You know, and I was just looking at something talking about tonight. Like, they take a lot less deep shots. And you could see. I love their approach every game. Going right at Philly. Right at them. Quick game. Keep Baker upright. Like, you know, and they've had to overcome a lot of injuries up front. And if Bucky Irving comes along,

continues to come along. You're going to be a right. They could use a little bit more pass rush. Yeah. Even though the Eagles got worked a little bit up front at times. Do you have a coach of the year, C-long? Already gave it. Kevin O'Connell. Okay.

Coordinator of the year. I'll join you, B-Flow, Minnesota Vikings. Yeah, he's been awesome. I might give executive of the year to Quasi up there. I think about all the free agents that I thought it was going to be Houston and yeah Houston is exciting and everything but Mixon hasn't played as much because the injury Hunter's made noise but like I would expect him to be like up near the top of league in sacks and that sort of thing most valuable player of September I'll go Jaden Daniels

quarterback in Washington it's kind of hard to argue with that I'm going Fred Warner Nice, Steve. Off the board. That's nice. Oh, man. Guys, it's so chalky. Honestly, I don't think the Ravens win two games if they don't have Lamar. Yeah. If we're just doing value, and I don't mean he's played out of his mind, he's played really well. Scott's at our pie this week. He's their best team in the NFL. You know why they can make a case for it? And of course, I'm against doing this early, but like... Yeah.

If they can run the ball, like if they realize the addition of Henry fully, you know, like they did the other night. That's a bit of a like. Chris, the way they use Justice Hill, man, that guy's a guy. We've been talking about Justice Hill. We love Justice Hill. But what happens when Keaton Mitchell comes back, is he going to ride the pine again a little bit? And, you know, is Keith Mitchell going to be the same guy you saw a rookie year? I just look at them and I say, you didn't add anything outside.

they've had to work through Andrews barely touching the ball. They've replaced the tackle. They moved McCarty to guard. Rosengarten's there. So that's great. There's been a lot of change there. And their defense started the year poor. And they've had a ton of penalties.

Now, you could look at the quarterback and say, hey, get the penalties cleaned up on the offense side of the ball. But I don't put penalties on a quarterback in every scenario. The coach has got to coach better and keep the field cleaner in that respect. but it's hard for me to think of a guy who if you took them off the field and replace him with, you know, some average quarterback, like, I don't know how much they win. And to your point, who are the teams in the AFC that can stop the run when they're humming? I mean, Kansas City will scrap it together, right?

But they picked up a lot of yardage on that group week one. The teams that you think about, like, dominant defenses, like, where are they? Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. That's a tough matchup for them. That's a tough matchup in division. You could win the division, see them in the playoffs, and that could be the rock fight you lose.

But other than that, like, there's not a lot of teams that I'm like in the AFC match up well with them. Yeah, that's, I mean, I thought when Houston's a team I think of, because that game, Houston, when they went to Minnesota, that was more about their offense being on their heels. now I get to see their defense against Buffalo. Like that's, they're like a weekly deal for me with Houston. I really think they could get home field advantage if they take care about,

you know, go about things the way they should, knowing what they, what they're capable of and the combination of that division. I thought that after the Sunday night game against Chicago, but it's a process. And what are the chiefs going to do? Obviously, they're out ahead now. Buffalo is right there too with the way the rest of that division looks right now.

So Houston's a team I really have my eyes on in the AFC because it's there. It's there for to take it. And they got the goods. Again, for the record, I'm not saying Lamar has been the best player on the field for it. I totally see what you're saying. We can go out of giving it to Josh.

That's what makes this like quarter crazy. Yeah. Like we can't do it accurately. But if we are, yeah. Comeback player of the year. Last one. This is great because I bet him last year when he was on the San Francisco 49ers. Sammy D.

D. D. D. D. D. It should be unanimous. Yeah, I think that is unanimous. It's been excellent. Now, did we do offensive rookie of the year? Do we do defensive rookie of the year? I think that might be getting too far into the weeds, Chris. I think there's one guy for offense. Got a really robust. I would love Chris. I would love Chris.

his thoughts on defensive rookie day right now. Well, who are the candidates? Because Jared Verses' name keeps popping up. We were talking about earlier this week, man. That guy's playing well. My man, Murphy got hurt. That was my pick.

Yeah. Versus got a shot at it, you know? Versus, Latu, Turner, Lassiter, Murphy, Chop Robinson, Quinion Mitchell. Now, Quineon Mitchell has played really well. like I really like him. If you're talking about who might be the important, the most important defensive rookie down the road for a franchise,

it's a corner, right? That hopefully you can play a little bit more competitively in some of these situations of man up or what happens. Right now it's like, and the thing we talk about this on inside the NFL, the Eagles really need to shore up the nickel position. They've gotten killed in the slot. So, you know, at least you have that guy outside.

Maybe DeGine can come along and be really important for them. Once the Giants get to like 12 and 5, look out for Tyler Nubin. Got it. He's going to be the catalyst.