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Fantasy Fantasy Football: The Experts' Week 7 Picks

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It's time again for the most important weekly feature on the Internet: Fantasy Fantasy Football. Throughout the NFL season, we'll be evaluating five fantasy football gurus as they tell us who to start and sit each week. Using a highly flawed method based loosely on mathematical principles, we'll attempt to reveal the one true football prophet. (Here's how it works: A pick counts in their favor if he ends up in the top half of the weekly scoring leaders. There are four categories — QBs, RBs, WRs, Defense/Special Teams — and points are awarded on a 5-1 scale in each.) The experts are:

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COUSIN SAL ON GAMBLING

Cousin Sal's Gambling Blog: Week 7

By Cousin Sal at
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We're back in the black baby! Last week I hit on a monster proposition bet — a 30/1 long shot paid out when the Bears were the highest scoring team in Week 6. 30/1! Seriously — what other bloggers are giving out 30/1 winners? Arianna Huffington? Perez Hilton? I'm guessing hardly ever.

I also hit Monday night with the Matt Moore throwing an INT before a TD pass prop. (Yes — an INT run back for a TD counts as a win)

The Pats and Bills screwed me with their point totals but instead of facing me like men they decided to take their bye this week. Yellow-bellies!

My overall total is now -14,000 jermajesties. That's nothing. Honest — I looked it up — a jermajesty literally amounts to exactly nothing.

Here's my Week 7 NFL proposition bonanza:

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