NFL Week 16 Predictions

The Washington Redskins, easily the biggest long shot before the season, can clinch the NFC East crown with a win at Philadelphia vs the Eagles, in the final NFL Network telecast Saturday night.

I predict the Eagles will win that game and thus control their playoffs destiny.

Eagles 19 Redskins 10.

Saying that will happen, and if it does, the New York Giants will still have a chance to win the woeful NFC East.

With that incentive, I predict: Giants 20 Vikings 19, the same score the Giants won a key game at Minnesota in 1986.

A reason the Giants might win Sunday night in Minnesota, at least why one might pick them, is I also forecast an Arizona Cardinals’ win earlier that day, at home vs the Green Bay Packers.

That will lessen the Vikings’ intensity for their tilt with the Giants, as no matter that result, for Minnesota, the final week game at Green Bay will decide the NFC North.

Cardinals, four plus point favorites, 27,  Packers 24.

Click below for a video which includes CBS TV’s Tim Ryan’s call of Phil Simms’ huge completion to Bobby Johnson, in the aforementioned Giants’ win at Minnesota in 1986.

Phil Simms to Bobby Johnson on fourth-and-17 – Giants.com

Giants’ kicker Raul Allegre, (pictured above) who also once booted the rival New York Jets into the playoffs with a last game of the year field goal in 1991, kicked the game winning field goal in that (20-19) win.