GIF Gallery: The Wins and Fails of NFL Week 5

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Date: 10/6/2013
Player(s): Eli Manning

Manning finds yet another innovative way to turn the ball over. This time he ricochets a pass off his own linesman's helmet and into the waiting hands of and Eagles defender. Your 2013 New York Giants, ladies and gentlemen.

Date: 10/6/2013
Player(s): Chris Johnson

After getting on fantasy owners for making the mistake of picking him, Chris Johnson actually had a semi-decent showing with 63 receiving yards, 17 rushing yards, and one receiving TD. Sadly, there's no extra points given for plays like these.

Date: 10/6/2013
Player(s): Matt Schaub

In a Super Bowl or bust season for the Texans, Matt Schaub and the offense looked like nothing more than busted when they faced the 49ers on Sunday night. Again, you never want to throw a pick during your opening drive. That goes double for pick sixes, and triple if you've thrown a pick six for three consecutive games. Throwing three interceptions in a game will defintely help your team lose 34-3 and have you looking like this. #DoBetter

Date: 10/6/2013
Player(s): Tony Romo

Tony Romo was actually flourishing throughout the majority of the game, with this sequence being a highlight. He became the first Cowboys quarterback to throw for over 500 yards and the fifth one ever to do it with five touchdowns. This achievement would've been better if he didn't end the game in typical Tony Romo fashion: a late-fourth quarter interception to cost his team the game. So childish.

Player(s): Caleb Sturgis
Date: 10/6/2013

Chances are that you could take someone who doesn't know anything about football and he/she could probably infer that the ball would need to go through the uprights to score those points. T.D. (yes, that's his name and it stands for touchdown) either somehow missed the fact that this didn't happen or he really, really appreciated Caleb Sturgis' effort on this 57-yard kick.

Date: 10/6/2013
Player(s): Jon Ryan, Mario Harvey

What Mario Harvey did while protecting Delano Howell on his way to a field goal touch down was a bit over the top. He didn't have to completely obliteration punter Jon Ryan here the way he did. But you know what? We bet Ryan won't try that again.

Date: 10/6/2013
Player(s): David Wilson

The Giants' touchdowns these past two games have a way of cruelly giving their fans a sense of false hope. The Victor Cruz touchdown last week against Andy Reid and the Chiefs was supposed to be the start of something beautiful, but alas, that became the only points New York put up in its fourth straight loss. Against the Eagles, the false hope came when running back David Wilson scored on the Giants' opening drive (and didn't fumble). Plus he pulled the double-backflip. There were no more double-backflips to be done on that day.

Date: 10/6/2013
Player(s): Tommy Kelly

Awwww. After injuring his knee, Kelly was working out on a stationary bike when suddenly the pressures of existential angst and a helplessness suddenly weighed down on the poor soul. And it's raining too. Never has there been more tears shed for a moment of football-related struggle.

Date: 10/6/2013
Player(s): D.J. Fluker, Sio Moore

Did anyone see the utter lack of a chill the Raiders Nation had when they made that banner for the dead-before-she-really-ever-existed-and-not-in-an-existential-sense Lennay Kekua? The Chargers couldn't directly step to whoever made that because that would consequently mean trying to step to Roger Goodell, which probably wouldn't end well.

This means there had to be a sacrifice. Linebacker Sio Moore ended up filling in up that role. In a move that would make the Undertaker proud, Fluker bodyslams Moore into oblivion. He did get flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct, but at least he defended Kekua's honor.

Player(s): Peyton Manning
Date: 10/6/2013

Peyton Manning running it in for a touchdown—his first time doing so in five years—against a kinda OK Cowboy is awesome for a bevy of reasons.

a) No one on the Cowboys was thinking, "Oh shit! Watch out for that naked bootleg." while setting up for this play, because Manning just doesn't have the need to get into the end zone by such means. So not only did the Cowboys allow 50 points and over 500 yards; they let Manning score a rushing touchdown. Shame on them!

b) The jogging speed at which Manning hits the end zone may be a subliminal in itself. It's as if he's saying, "Look at you guys fucking up" by how slow he glides in. Or maybe Manning isreally that slow of a runner.

c) You can't feel bad if you've also been had by Manning here, like 99 percent of other people were. Rest easy knowing that someone who's portion of the check comes from not getting caught on these situations—the cameraman—also got fooled.