The New Orleans Saints registered their first win of the NFL season, snapping the longest energetic shedding streak (8 video games) after a 26-14 victory over the New York Giants on Sunday. Huge receiver Rashid Shaheed caught 4 of 5 targets for 114 yards and a landing.
It included an exhilarating 87-yard rating off a Spencer Rattler move within the second quarter. After the sport, the 27-year-old had a hilarious plea for EA Sports activities’ Madden 26.
“Ayy repair my velocity @EAMaddenNFL,” he wrote on X in response to a clip of the landing.
Shaheed has an total of 79 in Madden 26 with a velocity score of 93. Whereas that’s undoubtedly a excessive quantity, the previous Weber State star clearly believes he deserves higher. The Saints have had a troublesome begin to the season and had earlier opened the sport 0-4.
“It feels good to return into the locker room to music, with everyone smiling and dancing. That is what we work arduous for. All of it paid off this week,” the extensive receiver claimed afterwards, per KSL.com.
The landing got here after he initially offered a faux run throughout the sphere earlier than working towards the sideline and grabbing Rattler’s move. In response to the NFL’s Subsequent Gen Stats, he recorded a velocity of 21.72 miles per hour on the run, though the TV broadcast recorded him at 22.72 miles per hour.
“We’ll go together with that one. TV’s proper,” he claimed after the sport. Rashid advised that his workforce had been “ready on a play like that” for the previous couple of weeks, and was pleased with the general execution, claiming that it constructed momentum for the remainder of the sport.
The Saints took cost after a 16-14 first half, going 10-0 within the second to see off a cushty victory. Now 1-4, New Orleans will tackle the New England Patriots subsequent as they try and construct on what was their first win since December 8 final 12 months.