Edward E. Cambas

Week 10 Power Rankings by Adam Caplan RSS add thisUpdate: November 16, 2010, 3:51 pm ET BIGGEST MOVERS +7 -6 Well, that's it. I give up. Any team I put at No. 1 can't hold the spot for more than a few weeks. We should just start the rankings at No. 2 since you could probably find five to seven teams who deserve to be ranked in that area, but none of them deserve to be ranked at No. 1. I still think the Giants are the best team when you examine their personnel from both sides of the ball. However, they now have major injury issues to deal with. Any team is capable of laying an egg in a given week. That's what happened to them against the visiting Cowboys. That was their one mulligan. FOX SPORTS NFL POWER RANKINGS RK Team REC CHG High/Low Comment 1 Jets 8-2-0 1 1/9 Here you go. The Jets are ranked at No. 1 this week. That could change soon because the NFL is truly a week-to-week league. Out of all the teams I considered for this spot, the Jets are the one team to hav...

PHILADELPHIA On a night where Superman was merely mortal, the Philadelphia Eagles showed the New York Giants — and the NFC — that they are more complete team than one-man show, and a force to be dealt with down the playoff stretch. NFL WEEKLY REVIEW PAGE Get caught up on all the action from Week 11. After he accounted for six touchdowns in last week’s victory over the Washington Redskins, quarterback Michael Vick was held without a touchdown pass on Sunday night. But thanks mainly to players such as receiver Jeremy Maclin and running back LeSean McCoy on offense, and tackle Antonio Dixon and cornerback Asante Samuel on defense, Philadelphia took control of the NFC East with a 27-17 victory before 69,144 at Lincoln Financial Field. Maclin, not DeSean Jackson, led Philadelphia with nine receptions for 120 yards and a game-high 14 targets. Jackson gets the most attention of the Philadelphia receivers which, combined the Giants’ propensity to blitz, left Maclin with one-one-one c...

The Jets have won a lot of close games. It's obvious they're a very talented team. Usually, defensive-oriented teams have close games because they run the ball and rely on playing solid defense in order to win. The most impressive thing about the Jets is how confident they are that they're going to win. They make the plays at the end of the game like they did today for the simple reason that they expect to make them. It looked like their fans had already given up on them and left the stadium when Mark Sanchez hit that long pass to Braylon Edwards down the right sideline. There were only seconds left when Sanchez threw the winning touchdown pass. He's a really young quarterback, but he handled that entire situation like a seasoned veteran. And that's a credit to Rex Ryan. NFL SCOREBOARD Bears 16, Dolphins 0 Steelers 35, Raiders 3 Bills 49, Bengals 31 Cowboys 35, Lions 19 Chiefs 31, Cardinals 13 Packers 31, Vikings 3 Ravens 37, Panthers 13 Jaguars 24, B...

CHILL OUT IN MINNESOTA Glazer: Vikings fire Childress Caplan: Questions following firing Video: Vikings' owner had enough Video: Childress' final press conference The team relieved the head coach of his duties Monday morning. Defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier will take over as the interim head coach. Childress, 54, compiled a 39-35 regular-season record in five seasons in Minnesota, including 3-7 this season. He guided the Vikings to a 1-2 mark in the playoffs. ''I am proud of our accomplishments and believe the foundation of this football team is stronger today than when I became head coach,'' Childress said in a statement released by the team. The team had visions of a Super Bowl berth after quarterback Brett Favre put together perhaps his finest season in 2009 and the Vikings went 12-4. But things went sour quickly, as the Vikings lost three of their first four games. Then the team acquired embattled receiver Randy Moss, then, only weeks la...

There will be no more part-time franchise quarterbacks. Brett Favre has exposed the inherent danger in that setup, and Michael Vick 2.0 is demonstrating just how much added value there is in having a talented QB fully invested. Franchise quarterbacks don’t get an offseason. They’re members of the coaching staff. They show up early and leave late. They study game film like it was narrated by Jenna Jameson. You want to be paid like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, then you must be willing to prepare like Manning and Brady. We’ll call it the “Ted Thompson Rule.” Thompson, of course, is the Green Bay Packers general manager who made the gutsy decision to dump Brett Favre when it became obvious The Old Gunslinger wanted franchise money for part-time play. Three years ago, I criticized Thompson for his bold move. I was wrong. You can’t build a consistent, winning football team around a quarterback who isn’t all in, and the repercussions for taking the risk can be devastating. The de...