2019 NFL Week 15

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Happy to see the Eagles and Vikings win. If only the Rams could have showed up today. To ignore Cooper Kupp makes no sense. It would be like not giving Cmac carries the last
3 or 4 games of the year? Very strange if you ask me. I know you guys feel the same.
 
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Robert Woods plays every down and has become the Rams' leading WR while Kupp has from out of nowhere been demoted, sickening stuff even for those of us who have observed the NFL with open eyes for a long time. Anyone who watched the Rams this season could see that Kupp was literally uncoverable, stronger and fast coming back from his knee injury. The tipoff should have been Crissy Collinsworth, owner of Pro Football Focus (the league's and the media's equivalent as far as an always bowed-to "bible" to the ADL and SPLC) never giving Kupp anything but grudging acknowledgment during the Rams-Browns Sunday Night game earlier this season (and any game Aunt Crissie calls involving the Rams).
 
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So does anyone have an explanation why a team in a playoff race suddenly stops throwing to one of the best receivers in the game?
 
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Kupp over 1000 yards receiving. I was getting very nervous, TPTB might destroy him going forward but he will always have this to be proud of.
 
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Usually when a star black WR has a down game or two, he starts to grumble, has the media on his side, and the next game he ends up with something like a 10-180-2 line. In the case of Kupp of course, not a peep will be heard from anyone, certainly not Kupp himself who would be permanently blackballed from the NFL if he dared speak up. Such is the life of a white NFL player.

After his outstanding 200+ yard game in London, he has officially been removed from the offensive game plan, never seen anything like this.
 
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Is he even playing? How many snaps per game has he gotten since his 200 yard game?
 
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Woods was away from the team on a family issue for a few weeks and since he has been back Kupp has been forgotten.
 
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Yep, it's not just the reduced snaps, all of a sudden Goff looks to Woods as his primary receiver. And Higbee was ignored in the offense for 3 3/4 seasons until becoming a major target the past three weeks when Everett was injured. Until then the tight end was mostly an afterthought in the Rams offense. What's going on here is as despicable as it gets.
 
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Kupp getting the garbage time looks, but why was he ignored again when it counted???
 
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Kupp up to 41 yds receiving in garbage time. What a disgrace that one of the best receivers was hardly played in a game the Rams needed to make the playoffs!

George Kittle with his best game of the year today. He had 13 catches for 134yds! :)
 
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In week 14 Josh Reynolds got over twice as many snaps as Cooper Kupp did.
 
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Good to see Josh Allen get the rushing TD here.
 
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Allen with another rushing TD. I believe he leads the league for QBs.
 
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Allen continues to do his Lamar Jackson imitation, to 1/100 the media applause. And to top it off, the demon Aunt Crissie calls him a "fullback" after he scores
 
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That was Allens 9th td of the season. Outstanding. So happy for the fans in upstate NY. They are some of the most loyal fans in the country. The media never talks about this team since the glory days. They live up in the frozen cold tundra and are finally getting a team to root for. This is one of the best stories of the year. We see Pittsburgh all the time. Nothing against the Steelers as they have guys we like too. I just would love to see this Bills team start making the playoffs consistantly. It starts with this year and a win tonight will put them in the playoffs no matter what happens the rest of the way.
 
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dwid said:
I couldn't find a game by game log for snap counts on pfr but the one extrapoint shared says he was in for 29 percent of the snaps for this week and 72 percent last week. The weeks before that it was usually around 90 percent.
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He was at close to 100% every week, then suddenly dipped to 72% then 29%. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/K/KuppCo00.htm

I have no idea what his snap count was today, but it's irrelevant as he was kept out of the offense for the most part until garbage time. It has to be unprecedented for a rising young superstar WR to out of the blue be demoted this way. Despicable, despicable, despicable.
 
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Kupp wasn’t targeted for the first time in the game, at least according to my review of espn’s online play-by-play, until 5:27 left in the 3rd quarter. he, of course, caught it for a first down. in fact, when he was finally thrown to (he wasn’t targeted again until 4:55 left in the 4th quarter), he caught all 6 passes that came his way. no surprise there, but why the lack of chances for the meaningful portion of the contest?

he doesn’t appear to be injured, so what is the deal? is Dallas’ secondary just that good?

strangely, when the commentators mentioned Kupp, they had nothing but praise for his dominance. yet they said nary a word on his almost-complete absence from the Rams offensive plan for the rest of the game.
 
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