NFC Championship, 1986: New York Giants 17 Washington 0

Game information
The Giants shut out the Redskins, allowing only 150 passing yards and 40 rushing yards. New York won the coin toss. With the winds at Giants Stadium blowing at 32 miles per hour, the Giants chose to defend one end of the field. While this meant that Washington would receive both the opening and second half kickoffs, the Giants were able to avoid kicking into the wind for the first and third quarters. After the Redskins were forced to punt on their opening possession, punter Steve Cox could only manage to kick the ball in the strong wind 23 yards to the Washington 47-yard line. Six plays and 17 yards later, the Giants scored on Raúl Allegre's 47-yard field goal, his longest of the season after joining the team in week 4. After the ensuing kickoff, the Redskins were forced to punt again and Cox managed to only punt the ball 27 yards to the Washington 38-yard line. From there, New York advanced to the Redskins 26. On third down and 10, quarterback Phil Simms threw an incomplete pass and center Bart Oates was called for holding. Rather than take the incompletion to bring up fourth down, Redskins coach Joe Gibbs accepted the holding penalty, hoping to push and keep the Giants out of field goal range. But on the next play, Simms completed a 25-yard pass to Lionel Manuel for a first down. A few plays later, Simms finished the drive with an 11-yard touchdown pass to Manuel on third down and goal.

Washington's best chance to score came in the second quarter, when a 48-yard reception by receiver Art Monk set up a field goal attempt, but it never got off the ground because quarterback Jay Schroeder fumbled the snap. On their next drive, Simms completed a 30-yard pass to tight end Mark Bavaro and later rushed eight yards to the Redskins 1-yard line on a quarterback bootleg. On the next play, running back Joe Morris completed the 51-yard drive by taking it into the end zone from there. Just before halftime, Morris gave the Redskins a scoring opportunity by losing a fumble deep in New York territory. But Washington came up empty when "The Big Blue Wrecking Crew" stopped them on a fourth and 1 conversion attempt.

In the second half, Washington completely abandoned their running game, passing the ball on all but one of their plays, but to no avail. By the end of the game, Schroeder was sacked four times, intercepted once by linebacker Gary Reasons and finished with just 20 of 50 completions for 195 yards.

Washington's lone bright spot of the day was Monk, who caught eight passes for 126 yards.

This was the second postseason meeting between the Redskins and Giants. Washington won the only previous meeting.

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