The biggest worry I see for Eagles fans is that the Birds' offense has tended to be much more inconsistent on the road, but really, if the Eagles somehow get to 20 points in this game, I'll be really surprised if they don't win.
EAGLES, 20-16
Ed Barkowitz
The Vikings are a little like the Redskins, a team the Eagles struggled against twice this year.
Minnesota has a young quarterback who surely is a question mark, but the Vikes also have the league's best running back and a defense that can put heat on quarterbacks. Minnesota was fourth in the league with 45 sacks.
While it's possible the magic of last Sunday could carry the Birds onto an extended run, the Vikings are no speed bump - especially for an Eagles team that was just 3-4-1 on the road.
VIKINGS, 16-10
Bill Conlin
In the Chop-Socky film genre, the Ninja leading man always gets tuned up by the Ninja Master one last time before going forth into the world to right wrongs and annihilate several hundred evildoers. Ninja Master Andy-san Reid will give apt pupil Brad Childress one last tuning Sunday in the Metrodome.
It's probably a draft accident that the Vikings have the No. 1 running back in the NFL, the superb Adrian Peterson. But the Eagles run defense has evolved to the point that no running back is going to keep them on the field very long. But Childress also has a steel trap rushing defense, which all but guarantees Reid has strapped the wing tanks on the South Philly Air Force and will be planning max sorties in the passer-friendly Dome against a pass defense disguised as a spaghetti strainer.
