four major candidates. >> al: again to the ha yard line. >> cris: mike zimmer's come in here and really does a good job. i can remember telling owners around the league, you should really interview mike zimmer. because he was in cincinnati and interviewed his players. i think defensive coaches are at a disadvantage sometimes. >> al: did you get a commission? >> cris: not even a nickel. you know, but he really does -- he has this feel. and i appreciate, i asked him about it. he said, i'm not a ceo type head coach. i spend some time with offense and special teams, but he's the defensive play caller. he said i wanted this team to know that i knew something about something. >> al: on second and one should take us -- matt lacosse takes the catch. to the two-minute warnings.

nassib getting up to the line, trying to maybe run a play off before the two-minute warning, but he cannot. and so we go to that break. with the score 49-10. ♪ looking right on sunday night ♪

report, michele will be in the field. stars of the game, bob, tony and

>> al: over in loomington. >> cris: i loved watching this division, didn't you? >> al: purple people eaters. fran tarkenton. black and blue division. >> cris: wow. don't get many of those 11s. that's late draw. >> al: i was hoping that was a shot from the old metropolitan stadium. but it's here, right? that will be caught by myles white for the touchdown. >> cris: that was a nice catch there. looks like xavier rhodes was going to make this but it went right over his fingertips and somehow myles white was able to concentrate and make that play.

nassib was one of those guys coming out of college he was very much under control, quick release, tikt throws motion. got the ball out of his hands. i remember thinking this guy might be a decent pro. just never know. >> al: nassib. run run and five passes. extra point makes the score 49-17. mvp candidates, well, peterson is always in that group, but not this year. you go with brady, you know, another great year. what else is new? carson palmer, tremendous season. cardinals flying high. and cam newton, obviously. finally lost today to atlanta, but a tremendous year through the year, on the ground, you name it.

and, of course, andy dalton had been in that conversation, and then got hurt. >> cris: russell wilson went through a great streak. >> al: he did. >> cris: i've got a vote. and i have to tell you, i don't know who i'm voting for yet. i'm hoping somebody does something spectacular, but i think it's going to be one of those years where it's very close. cam newton when he was orchestrating the season, it would be tough to vote against him. now the loss, does that change your mind? tom brady certainly working without the benefit of his star receivers. a lot of injuries to those offensive linemen. cam newton and russell wilson, what they can do with their legs. carson palmer with the magic and the high scoring that they've got going on in arizona. it's a tough vote. >> al: can you be bought? >> cris: oh, you know better. of course. >> al: a guy like tony romo, he's as valuable as anybody and that came to the forearm,

obviously. >> cris: i think with tony romo, they're throwing me out of the club. >> al: i don't have a vote, but i would vote for newton. >> cris: would you? >> al: yeah. he loses his number one receiver in training camp in calvin benjamin. you know, carolina's been an amazing story. >> cris: i can't argue with it. i really can't. the problem is when you stack statistics, if you want to look at those, other guys have better statistics, but it's so hard to measure what he does with his legs. i mean, that game last week and you know, i thought it was really interesting in talking to steve spagnuolo. he said if i spied against him, i didn't have enough guys to rush. and he would sit in the pocket for ten seconds and beat me that way. if i tried to rush him, he would scramble out. and he has a lot of different ways to beat you, i will agree with that. >> al: run the clock out here.

peterson had 104 yards tonight. so peterson will go into the last weekend of the season with a 64-yard advantage over tampa bay's doug martin in his quest for the title. i think you should call the guys at pro football focus and find out what they think. about the mvp voting. >> cris: there you go. >> al: malibu kelly hayes should be living back in malibu. other whole gang. andy freeland here. and we want to thank the whole gang for braving the elements. as they do week in and week out. probably will next week in green bay as well. >> cris: michele down on the sideline. >> al: correct. and the giants go to 6-9, minnesota clinches a playoff berth as they go to 10-5.

and minnesota never looked back. never trailed. led 19-3 at the half. teddy bridgewater, 15 out of 25 for 169. peterson 100-yard night. and it's over with the final score 49-17. volkswagen post game report on the other side of the break.

welcome to the volkswagen passat post game report. here now bob costas. >> the vikings clinch a spot and move on. they blow out the giants tonight 49-17. three ball games to be given out. one goes to adrian peterson. he ran for 104 yards. teddy bridgewater gets another. a very efficient 15 of 25. threw a touchdown pass. no picks. and safety harrison smith from notre dame had five tackles plus an interception which he returned 35 yards for a viking touchdown. they are the three game ball recipients. and thus they get to speak with michele tafoya. >> bob, thank you. teddy, just your second season you take this team back to the

playoffs it will be your first time what does that mean to you? >> it's awesome. it speaks a lot about this team. the group of guys who are determined all year long and we were faced with some adversity. i'm happy for this team. >> you head to green bay for the division title on the line. and 0-3 against the packers so far in the last two years. why do you think this will be different? >> we know there's a lot on the line. we have to approach this as another game. the guys have the same intensity. the arizona cardinals the past two weeks, it shows. looking for my guys preparing for next week. have that focus. >> congratulations. >> thank you. see you next week. >> adrian peterson, we talked before the game about getting back to the playoffs. now a shot at the division title. what would that mean to you? >> it would mean a lot. you know, for this organization. we haven't been there in a long time. we knew what this game meant tonight. we played physical and put

ourself in a position to take the title next week. >> and you put yourself in the position to take a third rushing title next week. you'll know going into that game. it's the last game of the regular season. how many yards you'll need. how do you think that might impact your mind-set going in? >> you know, i don't know. so that's a good thing. i was laughing with some guys on the sidelines. doug martin, on the sideline. just blessed to be in a position to get the title. i'll put my best foot forward. and god willing, we'll finish on top. >> see you in green bay. >> yes, ma'am. >> harrison smith, the last time this team made the playoffs was your rookie season 2012. what does it mean for you to be going back? >> incredible. offense, defense played great, special teams played great. no matter what happened, if we won tonight, we were in. we're just looking forward to next week already. >> green bay came in here

earlier this season. and really handed it to you guys. why do you think this game out there will be different? >> you know, just the guys that make up the team. a lot of fighters, a lot of tough guys, guys that love the game. so just go out there and see what happens. >> good luck. congratulations. we'll see you there. >> see you there. thank you. >> bob? >> michele, take a look at the nfc playoff picture. with this result tonight we now know all six playoff teams in the nfc. the only questions remaining are questions of seeding. among them who wins the nfc north and that, as you know by now, will be decided on sunday night as the vikings go to lambeau to take on the packers. carolina and arizona have the byes wrapped up, but if carolina were to lose to tampa bay and arizona beat seattle, then the cardinals would seize the number one seed. let's bring in tony dungy. tony, which of those nfc playoff teams would you least want to face in the postseason? >> well, bob, you have to look at arizona right now and the way

they're playing. they're on a roll. and they are healthy. and that is the biggest thing. i look at defending nfc champion seattle, they need marshawn lynch back. i look at carolina. they need jonathan stewart back. arizona has offense, defense, special teams rolling right now. that's the team that i think is on a roll and i certainly wouldn't want to play them in the playoffs. >> tony, here's a quick look at the afc. new england will be the number one seed if they get a win on the road at miami. denver plays cincinnati tomorrow night, then san diego in week 17. if denver wins both, the broncos will get at least a bye, but if they should lose twice, they could end up completely out of the playoffs. a kansas city win and one denver loss would give the division to the chiefs who clinched a wild card with pittsburgh's loss today. and that means the jets will be in if they win at buffalo against their former coach rex ryan.

as for pittsburgh, they now need to win next week against cleveland and hope for either a jets loss or two denver losses in order to make the playoffs. got all that? tony, how do you see it all shaking out? >> well, i think mike tomlin and the pittsburgh steelers have to be sick today. they had everything in their hands. all they needed to do was win their last two going to baltimore. they couldn't get it done. now they need a lot of help, probably from the buffalo bills. i just don't see that happening. i like the way the jets are playing. todd bowles has that team playing with a lot of confidence. ryan fitzpatrick is doing a great job with that offense. they need to go up and get a win and they'll be in. i believe that's what's going to happen, that the vets make it into that last slot in the playoff. >> coach, thanks. we turn as always to mike florio of pro football talk. you reported that some of the giants assistants believe that if they won the last two games they'd be safe. well, they lost big tonight. what impact do you think that

has on tom coughlin's future in new york? >> it can't be good either for coach coughlin or for general manager jerry reese between being eliminated from the postseason saturday night and just being embarrassed tonight. we have to watch now and see how it plays out. ownership of the giants has kept the cards close to the vest saying decisions will be made after the season's end. hard to imagine they don't have a good idea what they'll do when the season ends next sunday after they face the eagles. and in that same division, nfc east where washington has emerged as an unlikely champion, a couple of other hot spots. philadelphia, coach chip kelly under fire for his work as the coach and in his first year as the person in charge of the football operations. that's a situation to keep an eye on along with the dallas cowboys. owner jerry jones has called out the coaching staff not that long ago for not winning more games with tony romo injured this year. now, it would be very expensive to make a change. jason garrett, the head coach, has four years left on his contract. but we've seen unpredictable

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they play minnesota. what's your initial take on this thing? >> who's hot is the way i always look at it. and the minnesota vikings, 39 points last week, 49 points here tonight. they get their defensive players back, they look tremendous. but you're going to green bay. so how do you know? it's one of those aaron rodgers has been the best player in football probably over the past five years maybe. so you look at it and you say, this is it. this is the one that really matters. but remember there's some interesting twists to this. the loser may end up going to washington. the winner may end up getting seattle comi in. so you know, it's always bizarre at the end of the year trying to figure out what exactly is best for each team. >> bottom line, nobody knows anything. >> nobody knows. >> but that's why we love it. so we'll see you next week for minnesota against green bay at lambeau field in the 256th and final game of the 2015 regular season. tonight it's all vikings from start to finish.

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i'm on the scene of a fatal crash involving an suv and all-terrain vehicle in prince george's county.

the death toll from wild weather across the country rises. we're getting a clearer picture of the massive scale of destruction. one of the most popular players under suspicion tonight after he was named in an alleged cheating scandal. man is dead and a teen is in the hospital after an atv crash in capitol heights tonight. a relative of one of the victims is warning about potential dangers of atvs. darcy spencer has that story. >> he was the life of the party in our family and make everybody laugh. he got married last year. u nephew who died after being involved in a crash on his atv in capitol heights. his teenage stepdaughter, who was riding with him, was also seriously hurt.

>> he was a good person, always making you laugh. he worked so hard, he has two children, a daughter, 5, a son, 1. >> reporter: police say it happened just before 6:00 in the evening. the atv somehow collided with this suv near the intersection of waterford drive. there was family get together nearby. family members rushed to the crash site. her nephew was taken to a trauma center where he was pronounced dead. police say it's illegal to drive atvs on maryland roadways. >> leave those bikes and stuff alone. ride in off-road terrain or where it's illegal to ride them, leave them alone. >> reporter: the scene cleared down here about an hour and a half ago. the crash haemd in this intersection behind me. investigators still trying to figure out exactly how it

happened. erica, back to you. >> darcy spencer, live in capitol heights, thank you very much. the consumer product safety commission looked at recent deaths involving atvs. 12 people in the country died in the first weeks of november. two of the victims were younger than 16. they warned atvs are not toys. everybody should take a hands-on safety training course. the cpsc also says never drive atvs on paved roads and don't allow any under 16 to operate or ride atvs and always wear protective gear. developing tonight, a deadly weekend across the country as wild weather rips through several states. we start in east texas. a string of tornadoes at least 11 in the state. r rowlett was one of the hardest hit. the flooding in missouri, high waters killed at least 13 in the midwest.

in new mexico, everyone there is in state of emergency thanks to a powerful snowstorm. the texas governor says the focus right now is rescue and recovery and helping those who lost so much. nbc has the daunting task ahead as folks try to pick up the pieces and start to rebuild their lives. >> reporter: the destruction spanned nearly 40 miles. >> there's houses torn up everywhere. >> reporter: at least 11 tornadoes slicing through neighborhoods south and northeast of dallas. >> i'd say most of these houses are completely trashed. you can't rebuild but a couple of them. >> reporter: some people trapped when fierce winds swept their carsb off i-30s around dinnere saturday night. survivors recording the ominous warning siren. >> it was terrifying. it was heartbreaking, especially being the day after christmas. >> reporter: the overnight death toll stands at 11. today, the national weather service said an ef-4 tore

through garland with howling winds up to 200 miles an hour. >> this is absolutely unreal. >> reporter: eight people were killed there, including a young child. in nearby rowlett, nearly two dozen people were injured. >> it's crazy. you see this on tv and don't expect to see it when you go outside your front door. >> reporter: candace scruggs is still in shock. >> we lost a lot of roof. you can see holes in our house. it's crazy. this is all neighbor's stuff. these 2x4s flew like bullets and flew through the garage and landed in the wall. >> reporter: since november 29 people were killed almost triple all year. and seven people killed in missouri when flashfloods swept their cars away. locals credited early warnings of saving lives but many never had seen anything like this.

>> it was massive. >> reporter: ashley bowen had be on a family night out, the home she grew up in now destroyed. >> we built the house, 28 years. i don't know what else to say. i'm sorry. >> reporter: sometimes no words are needed. >> indeed sometimes there are just no words. rain from that same system moved through our area tonight and storm team 4 is tracking major temperature changes as the wet weather moves out of the area. amelia joins us with what folks can expect come monday morning. >> they're good tomorrow morning. the 40s will greet you as you step out your door after a high temperature today of 70 degrees. quite a shock to the system. you'll want to locate the warmer jacket for tomorrow. here's the latest. currently tracking a wide range of temperatures from 48 in hagerstown to 60 dress to paw tucpaw

-- the river. temperatures at 46, 8:00 a.m., look at temperatures across the area tracking temperatures in the low to mid 40s, 41 in frederick to 45 in washington as well as manassas. coming up in my full forecast i will have the latest check of storm team radar, the last of the storms moving out and rain moving in tomorrow. i'll have the time on that coming up. >> thanks. redskins tonight still enjoying their division championship. can we get one of those hats around here. jason pugh joins us live with reaction from the coach jay gruden's warm welcome back. >> everybody wants one of those hats. one thing you can never say about redskins is they lack passion. they had every right to give up hope and they didn't. because of that, the fans were given the best gift this holiday season. that was the division championship [ chanting ]

>> that's awesome. there's a ton of people there. a great experience. we're still riding high. to see our supporters come out like that in hundreds and hundreds. a great experience for everybody. the young guys, veterans, were excited, had their camera phones out taking pictures and videos and the coaches, too, it was a great experience. >> one more game left for redskins this sunday in dallas against the cowboys. elsewhere in sports, nationals find one of their key players in the midst of a scandal, ryan zimmerman being linked to performance drugs by al jazeera tv. a pharmacist at the clinic at the center of this investigation says the:ic mailed agh to several different athletes including zimmerman as well as ryan howard. those two had the same lawyer releasing this statement saying extraordinarily reckless claims

made against our client are unfounded. ryan has unequivocally stated that these allegation are false. the lerner family and our entire organization fully support him and confident the baseball investigation will show the allegations shown are unfounded. more on this story coming up later in sports. i'm jason pugh, erica, back to you. >> thank you so much. dozens of friends and family gathering to honor the life of a d.c. teen killed one week ago. they marched from ochoa's home to the charter school where he was a student. the 17-year-old was stabbed to death. police say he was killed after he arranged to meet a girl at pet worth park. sunday night, family members and his teachers are remembering him as a brilliant young man getting ready for college. >> you can tell he was a student that felt this was part of his home. he was one of the good ones.

he was one of the students of all this would never happen to, one of those types, reserved but very humple. >> d.c. police have not made any arrests in this case. police are looking for man who robbed a supermarket at gunpoint in virginia. police were called to falls church just before 10:00 you saturday night. the suspect pulled a gun and demanded money from a clerk who was closing the store. the storeowner said the bad guy got away with nearly 20,0$20,00. investigators have not confirmed that dollar amount. if you should have any information you're asked to call police. two people shot in broad daylight in northeast. police are looking for the man who shot the victim sunday afternoon on v and second streets. we're told one man was conscious when emts rushed him to the hospital. no word on the condition of the second victim. police say the shooter took off in a silver nissan sports car. man in the district facing i

dui charges after hitting a car, herndon crashed and police arrested him on scene. man, woman and two children had to be taken to the hospital with serious injuries. >> in the hospital, something had to happen rather than in the morgue. anger and grief after chicago police shoot and kill two people. find out if the relatives of the people killed are any closer to getting answers. donald trump is taking on virginia's republican party. why trump says party officials are trying to keep you from the polls. and a food fight between guy fieri and one of his re