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Fantasy Football: Week 2, As Told Through GIFs

Gosh, that first week was fun, wasn’t it?  All the drama! The underperforming! The injuries! The panic!

Well, that was just the beginning. Here, now, is week two of the Sportsgrid Fontasie Experience, rendered in GIFs.

There comes a point in every week when your hometown team comes through, and that show of grit, pride and perseverance just totally freaking murders your fantasy prospects. And when Eli Manning went HAM in the second half against the Bucs, Max (who was matched up with Jenn) was basically just like:

This is, of course, the great conundrum of fantasy football: your team is winning, but it’s making your fantasy team lose. And it sucks! It sucks hard. There is not a lot to like about it. About the only thing that compares is when you have two super-viable players that you could plug in at running back, and your decision-making process feels a little bit like this:

And then you do something like Glenn did, where you decide that maybe Torrey Smith will be more productive than Trent Richardson as your hybrid receiver/back, and you spend the hours of 1PM to 4:26PM like this:

One step further down the list of Fantasy Heartaches, you have Dylan’s “thinking fondly about Thursday night football, then thinking about Greg Jennings maybe bouncing back from his putrid showing against the 49ers, then realizing that the game has started and Jennings is inactive and still in your starting lineup” experience. It looks a little bit like this:

Of course, those things tend to happen only once. Week two is typically one of the most intense in fantasy, the moment when you finally lock in, make sure your lineup is properly calibrated, and really make the right decisions. It adds some sting to the losses, but when you have a week like Jenn did, and you basically just detonate your competition, it’s hard not to just sit in front of your TV doing this:

Of course, this week’s action is pretty much sewn up. If you’re Jake, and you’re still within striking distance of a win against Glenn, then you really just have to be looking at Michael Turner tonight and going:

And if you’re Matt, looking down the barrel at Foges needing just eight points from Roddy White, Tony Gonzalez, Matt Bryant and, uh, Jacquizz Rogers (secret weapon!) to pass you, or Hank, whose hopes for winning this week come down to Peyton Manning throwing about nine interceptions, then you probably got up from your laptop like so:

But don’t worry! Before you know it, it’ll be Sunday all over again.

[The SportsGrid Fontasie Football League]