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By yourself, Rashid Shahid, look, he's not going to stay on this pace because this pace is just absolutely ridiculous. But by yourself, the idea of Rashid Shahid entering this conversation of potentially a top 25 wide receiver in the NFL. Well, I mean, top 25 is tough, just because the league is really crowded. But I am buying, I'm not buying that he's going to catch a post route touchdown every single game. I'm not buying that. But I am buying the performance so far this year for a litany of reasons. One, I think Shahid's a good player. You go back and look at the RP profile from this past year, from 2023. Really good results there. You know, I thought he was a player who, who's shined obviously on the deep routes. I mean, that was going to be obvious. Just watching him. You could tell he's got the juice, you know, that post route I mentioned, he ran a post round of 15% of his charted routes in 2023, with an 80% success rate, which is pretty bonkers. But also look at the rest of the in-breaking route success rates, dig route, curl route, slant routes, all this stuff. You did? Don't break that well to the outside. Yes. By the way, for any of our subscribers, if you like, go and look at Rishi Chihid's route chart, it's the funniest thing, man. It is everything that's either straight or in-breaking is green and everything out-breaking is red. Even the flat route, even the flat route is red for Rishi Chihid. I know. It's the funniest, it's the funniest route chart, man. It's got to be. It gets the Ben Stiller, you know, he can't turn left thing and he gets the Zoolander treatment. Of course, you know, just because the route chart is designed this way, there are also out-breaking routes that turn right. So he can indeed turn left. He's a couple of those banger post routes have been breaking to the left. Okay. So he can turn left, Ken Rishi Chihid, let's just dispel that notion right now. But, man, number one, good player. He's a solid route runner. He's got so much juice and he is just perfectly deployed in this offense, man. He is exactly. When you saw a Clint Kubiak get hired by the Saints, you just had to think, dude, Rishi Chihid in motion, Rishi Chihid doing this type of stuff, it's just, it's picture perfect. It was picture perfect in theory. It has been just about picture perfect practice so far. So I am buying to a certain degree, obviously, he's not going to keep at this pace, like he said. But if he's a real player, he's going to continue to be a really productive and positive player for the Saints. I'm buying on that. One of his most impressive reception perception metrics that I found was, we're talking about this dude who is 180 pounds, 74th percentile versus press coverage on 18.5% of his routes, man. That's impressive. That is pretty good, given his skill set and given his size. That was really surprising. I certainly was not expecting to see that in regards to his press success rates. Okay. Well, and this is critical too, James, because they're playing a lot of heavy personnel. They have a lot of tight ends. They have a Taysom Hill. They've got running backs. They want to get on the field. They're not slot receiver BS doing the things with Rishi Chihid. He's got to play some outside receiver. So his press success rate is pretty critical. By the way, I just, I have to say this on the pod. Okay. The audacity of Derek Carr to throw that ball to Rishi Chihid, the touchdown against the Cowboys. Have you seen this throw on film yet, man? It is, I mean, live, it looks crazy, but on film, it is absurd. It's not quite, it's not quite the Anthony Richardson, Alec Pierce touchdown in, in week one, because Richardson did not even like have his feet. He was, you know, getting in pressure and he's like, barely set, but still, I mean, it's not, I mean, it's open, but it's not, it's not week one Panthers. What are you doing? JC Horne open, it's, it's, it's a keyhole. He fits that thing through. I mean, Carr is feeling it right now. And that's why I'm buying the Rishi Chihid stuff too, because Carr is feeling it. The whole offense is feeling it. Wow, I love what I'm seeing in New Orleans right now. It takes a lot to prepare for game day as a dedicated fan, and preparing the perfect tailgate meal might be the most important of all. That's why best food's real mayonnaise is the MVP. Best food's mayonnaise is the secret to bring out the rich and creamy taste to all your game day dishes from Buffalo chicken dip to your favorite sub sandwich and everything in between. So give it a try and mayo game day be delicious with best food's real mayonnaise. Drop by your local Walmart, Kroger or grocery store and add some extra deliciousness to your game day dishes this football season.
