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The Giants beat the Vikings in the Wild Card round after losing to them in the regular season, and now hope to do the same to the Eagles.
In Week 16, the New York Giants lost by three points to the Minnesota Vikings. But on Sunday, they went on to beat the Vikings when it mattered: in the Wild Card round to earn their first playoff win in over a decade.
Now, the Giants have to hope they have similar good fortune against another recent opponent whom they recently lost to.

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Philadelphia will host New York for the second time in a three-week span.

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The NFC’s top-seeded Eagles will host the Giants in the divisional round after New York’s 31–24 victory over the Vikings on Saturday.
It will be the third meeting of the season between the division rivals and will be the second time the teams have played in the last three weeks.
The Giants rested most of their starters in Week 18, but still gave the Eagles all they could handle in Philadelphia as the home team worked to secure the No.

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New York kept its postseason alive with an upset win over the Vikings, but fans were upset over a late-game penalty that could’ve altered the outcome.

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The Giants advanced to the divisional round after pulling off an upset road win over the Vikings on Sunday, but a questionable late-game defensive penalty nearly threatened to compromise New York’s eventual parade.
With the Giants up 31-24 and just under three minutes left in regulation, Kirk Cousins and the Vikings re-took the field on their own 12-yard line.

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This penalty call in Giants vs Vikings was pretty weak.
The NFL has had a rough season with their roughing the passer rules. Though the spirit of the rule is correct — to protect quarterbacks and to heighten player safety — there are many moments that seem to take it too far. In the fourth quarter of the Vikings-Giants Wild Card playoff game on Sunday, it appeared to everyone watching that the NFL took it too far.

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