New York Giants vs. Minnesota Vikings Week 17 NFL Picks: Minnesota (11-4) is headed to the playoffs for the second straight season while New York (8-7) will miss out for the first time since 2004. Spectators at the Mall of America Field will get lots of action once the game kicks-off at 1:00 PM ET. Favre and Minnesota have struggled in three straight road losses, including Monday's 36-30 overtime defeat at Chicago as a 9 point favorite. Vikings are the lone NFC team with an unbeaten home record, and what better time to be home than the last game of the season. The New York Giants are easily one of the league's biggest disappointments this season. The Giants were slaughtered last week by the Carolina Panthers 41-9 also as 9 point favorites.
 

KGB Sports Matchup Analysis: Favre’s clashed with Childress on the sideline two weeks ago in a loss at Carolina has given the media a story to run with for a couple of weeks now. Let the media call it what they want; a power struggle, Brett Favre running out of energy at the end of a long season with just five touchdowns and four interceptions in the last four games. As it stands, the two claim their relationship is fine; but everyone knows actions speak louder than words, and winning speaks for itself. Minnesota's offense has been forced to rely on Favre the last four weeks with opponents slowing down Adrian Peterson, who is third in the league with 1,329 rushing yards and first with 17 rushing touchdowns. Adrian Peterson's per-carry average the last four games is down to 3.3 after being at 4.7 through the first 11 games. Mr. Peterson will be looking forward to facing a porous Giants' run defense that allowed 247 total yards on the ground and 206 to Jonathan Stewart in last week's loss to Carolina. New York Giants vs. Minnesota Vikings Week 17 NFL Picks NFL Betting Total is at 42.0 points.
 
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New York will be without Brandon Jacobs, who is out with a knee injury and only amassed 835 rushing yards after back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons. RB Ahmad Bradshaw will play, but has battled ankle problems all season. Coach Tom Coughlin has indicated that Ahmad Bradshaw isn't capable of a full workload, which will put even more pressure on QB Eli Manning. The Vikings lead the league with 45 sacks, but in the past month, they have not been able to get as much pressure on opposing quarterbacks. They have just five sacks in the last four games, and that lack of pass rush has put too much of a burden on a secondary that has failed to hold up. Minnesota has given up an average of 386.0 yards in their three losses over the last four weeks. Only the Lions have surrendered more touchdowns than the Giants this season. New York's defense has been abysmal this season and last week it was obvious that the Giants packed up their tent and went home.

KGB Sports Quick Insight: The intangible for this game will be the New York state of mind. If they failed to show up against a backup quarterback and a subpar Carolina Panthers team at home for the last game at Giants Stadium with a playoff spot on the line, they will not show Sunday to win a meaningless game. The line has been jumping around from Minn. -9 to anywhere between -7.5 to -10, the only constant has been the total of 48.

KGB Sports Free Sports Picks Play: Over 48 (3 Units)

KGB Sports Bonus Free Sports Picks Play: Minnesota -9 (2 Units)