sprained MCL, which should keep him out for a couple of weeks, but he should be back in plenty of time for the playoffs, hopefully with Collins in tow. Edelman and Amendola also should be back on the field come January. The cavalry is coming.

ESPN's Football Power Index agrees. Their lead in the AFC might be down to one game, with the Broncos holding the tiebreaker after Sunday night, but the Patriots are still the best bet to make it to the Super Bowl. FPI gives them a whopping 53.4 percent chance of making it to the Super Bowl, leaving the Pats as the only team in football who are favorites to make it to Santa Clara, California, in February. The 11-0 Panthers still seem like their mostWashington: President Barack Obama urged the leaders of three Central American countries on Friday to work with him to stem the flow of child migrants who have surged across the U.S. border and warned that most of them would not be allowed to stay.

In a White House meeting with the leaders of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, Obama had a tough-love message: his administration had compassion for the children, but not many would qualify for humanitarian relief or refugee status. Many of the migrants have fled poverty and crime at home.

The meeting came as Obama struggles to contain a border crisis triggered by the tens of thousands of children who have crossed the Texas border with Mexico in recent months. They have overwhelmed border resources and put election-year