Brian Daboll's Giants and the Minnesota Vikings will get a rematch of their Week 16 game after all.

With Sunday's results -- the Vikings' 29-13 win over the Chicago Bears and the San Francisco 49ers' 38-13 victory against the Arizona Cardinals -- Daboll leads New York back into U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, where the Giants took a 27-24 loss on Christmas Eve, as part of Wild Card Weekend.

"When you play a team close all the way to the end, usually the team that makes a few more plays wins the game -- and (the Vikings) did," Daboll said, from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, after Sunday's 22-16 loss to the Eagles. "All of our preparation will be geared towards that team. They're a fantastic team, well coached. We're going to have to do a good week of preparation."

The Vikings (13-4), who won the NFC North, settled for the No. 3 seed and get the sixth-seeded Giants (9-7-1).

"That's playoffs, you know?" Daboll said. "Whatever the seeds are, the seeds are. We'll prepare as hard as we can to play a really good football team in a hostile environment."

New York led 13-10 at halftime before a back-and-forth fourth quarter ended with a 61-yard field goal by Greg Joseph to win the game for Minnesota.

"I think every week is a new week in the NFL," said Daboll, who rested starters such as Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley in Week 18. "We have obviously division games -- played teams twice -- and, usually, in the playoffs, you're playing good teams. You probably get a crack at them twice, too.

"We need our best week of preparation."

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