Resident handicapper Vegas Vic and the rest of the staff pick this week’s games.
SUNDAY
Vikings (-1.5) REDSKINS (O/U: 42.5), 1 p.m.
Quick hit: Minnesota defensive end Everson Griffin can become the first player ever to record a sack in each of his team’s first nine games. He, Dwight Freeney (2009) and Robert Mathis (2005) are the only players to do so in the first eight. Freeney and Mathis were each playing for the Colts.
Vikings vs. spread: 5-3
Redskins vs. spread: 3-5
Vegas Vic’s take: The kids from D.C. have covered seven of the last nine as a home underdog (a sweet 78% winning rate), and should be ready to rumble after an embarrassing loss to the Cowboys at FedEx Field a few weeks ago.