\n 2. Offensive Play of the Day:<\/p>\n
There were plenty to choose from, so let’s get to it. Rattler capped off an opening drive of nine plays and 65 yards with a beautiful touchdown pass to Rashid Shaheed<\/a> of 31 yards down the left sideline. \u2026 Shough hit wide receiver Bub Means<\/a> on a right sideline pass that Means somehow came down with for 11 yards, despite excellent coverage by Jayden Price<\/a>. \u2026 A few plays later, Rattler found Brandin Cooks<\/a> on a tremendous back shoulder throw and a better catch by Cooks for 12 yards. \u2026Shough had his own 65-yard drive one series later. This one took only five plays, and the last three were outstanding. On first down at the plus 47-yard line, Shough avoided a blitz from defensive end Jasheen Davis<\/a>, and rolled toward the right sideline, and uncorked one deep down the sideline where wide receiver Dante Pettis<\/a> made the catch in traffic (my personal play of the day). The gain would be 32 yards to the plus-25. On the next play, Shough stood tall and calmly delivered a quick slant to the speedy Mason Tipton<\/a> who by all accounts scored a touchdown. Much to the chagrin of the entire offensive sideline, the official ruling was down at the 2-yard line. Shough then made it moot by executing a perfect fake on a read option to running back Cam Akers<\/a>, and kept it himself, finding nothing but Bermuda grass for the easy touchdown. \u2026 Two series later, Rattler on a third-and-goal from the five, threw a self-admitted ill-advised back foot pass to the back left pylon of the west end zone where Cedrick Wilson Jr.<\/a> would somehow come down with it, despite being surrounded by black jerseys. \u2026 Finally, Shough added his second touchdown on a third-and-goal from the 3. First avoiding a would be sack by Chase Young<\/a> and tossing a perfect floater to Kevin Austin Jr.<\/a> for the touchdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. Offensive Play of the Day: There were plenty to choose from, so let’s get to it. Rattler…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[23699,7,47727,81,896,55,2572,2571,47728,6,397,8896],"class_list":{"0":"post-273329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-2025-training-camp","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-keys-to-training-camp","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-new-orleans","13":"tag-new-orleans-saints","14":"tag-neworleans","15":"tag-neworleanssaints","16":"tag-news-todd-graffagnini","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-saints","19":"tag-training-camp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114996774479988439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}