Giants LB Mike Barrow picks off a Troy Aikman pass during the Cowboy QB's debacle. (AP)

Aikman will be back in the lineup next Sunday against Arizona despite throwing nine interceptions and only two touchdowns this season. He was intercepted a career-high five times in Sunday's 19-14 loss to the New York Giants.

"Troy is our guy," Campo said. "I felt we had the best chance to win with him. He just had a rough day and some of the things were beyond his control. I thought he did some good things as well. I think our team has confidence in Troy."

That confidence could be waning. Running back Emmitt Smith said after Sunday's game, "I don't think this could happen to (Aikman)."

Campo, whose team is 2-4, knows Aikman could get well next week because the Cardinals, also 2-4, have only one interception this season and none since the first game.

Still, Aikman will enter that game with a league-worst 38.5 passing rating.

His rating in Sunday's game -- 35.1.

Jones said the Cowboys never came close to pulling Aikman in Sunday's debacle. "Even though he had his interceptions in the first half, we came out and had a chance to win the football game in the fourth quarter," Jones said.

Aikman doesn't like the thought that he's still in the lineup only because of his close relationship with the owner.

"We're not in the business of making people feel good," he said. "When the (coaching) staff thinks a decision needs to be made, they'll do it. I hope I'm the guy, but if the staff thinks differently then I would hope they base the decision on my performance -- not anything I've done in the past or anything I've done for the organization."

Cost of doing business

How low can the Washington Redskins go?

The Baltimore Ravens began their day on Sunday by having to pay $120 to park their three team buses in the FedEx Field lots. A passenger on one of those buses? Team owner Art Modell.

That move won't do anything to improve the already bad relations between the Ravens and the Redskins.

Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, acquitted of murder charges in Atlanta, entered the game furious that Redskins fans yelled at him at a summer scrimmage, "We know you did it."

Bank on it

Ravens coach Brian Billick, whose team hasn't scored a touchdown in three consecutive games, is learning what the St. Louis Rams already knew -- quarterback Tony Banks will break your heart.

Banks threw an interception with 10 seconds left in the first half of a 3-3 game with the Ravens at the Washington 1.

That was the closest the Ravens could come to scoring a touchdown in their 10-3 loss.

"I liked the call when they called it," Banks said. "In practice, it works all the time."

But Billick deserves as much of the blame as Banks. He could have run the ball. The Ravens had one timeout left.

Now, the Ravens enter next week's game against defending AFC champion Tennessee having not scored a touchdown for 86 minutes and 36 seconds.

"They made one play," Ravens tight end Shannon Sharpe said. "We made no plays. How can you go 60 minutes without one play on offense? I can't fathom it. I've never seen it. Offense has been killing our team."

Two to go

If it seemed weird to see the St. Louis Rams forced to go for 2-point conversions after every touchdown following the injury to kicker Jeff Wilkins, it was a case of déjà vu for Falcons coach Dan Reeves.

In a 1997 game at the Georgia Dome, Broncos kicker Jason Elam was injured in the first quarter on a kickoff and Denver had to keep going for two points. The relationship between Reeves and Mike Shanahan was so strained at that point, of course, that the Denver coach had to have one of his trainers call over to the Atlanta sideline and inform Reeves about the injury.

Shanahan didn't want Reeves to think he was intentionally trying to run up the score or embarrass him.

The Rams went for two five times and made an NFL-record four after kicker Jeff Wilkins suffered a strained right quadriceps muscle on his first kickoff.

Wilkins converted one extra point and attempted another kickoff before leaving the game.

He was replaced on kickoffs by wide receiver Chris Thomas, a former soccer player who had no experience as a kicker.

"Coach (Al) Saunders said, 'Hey, Chris, you might have to kick off next time we go down there and the next time we score,'" Thomas said of the Rams wide receivers coach. "I said, 'Really? Where's that tee? Let me warm up.'

"I've never kicked off a tee before. I've never kicked off before. So, it was all new to me."

Rest for the wicked

That one-game suspension by 49ers coach Steve Mariucci has done wonders for wide receiver Terrell Owens.

In his two games since returning to the team, Owens has 20 catches for 269 yards and four touchdowns.

But the 49ers lost both of the games.

Good hands person

When veteran Colts linebacker Cornelius Bennett recovered a Ricky Watters fumble on the first play from scrimmage in the second half of Sunday's victory over Seattle, he moved ahead of Dick Butkus for third place on the all-time list with 26 recoveries.

He now trails only Jim Marshall (29) and Rickey Jackson (28).

"I'm aware of the record and I'd like to get it," Bennett said. "If you are recovering fumbles, you are making big plays and helping your team win. That's an important record I'd like to have when I retire. The good news is I'm still active and have a chance to break it."

Quick count

• The Seahawks are 3-10 since their 8-2 start last year and 11-12 since they gave an eight-year, $32 million contract to Mike Holmgren to be coach, general manager and executive vice president.
• Don't be surprised if the Seahawks trade one of their two first-round picks to the Rams in the offseason for quarterback Trent Green.
• Just what the Rams (6-0) need -- two first-round draft picks next year.
• Cincinnati rookie wide receiver Peter Warrick has lost six games this season after losing only four his entire career at Florida State.
• Rams running back Marshall Faulk is only the second player in league history to rush for 200 yards and have 75 receiving yards in the same game.
• Tony Horne of the Rams has returned four kickoffs for touchdowns, three against Atlanta.
• The Rams' next opponent, Kansas City, has to settle on a feature running back. The Chiefs used four different players there in Sunday's loss to Oakland.
• Cardinals assistant to the president Rod Graves is beginning to take heat in the Valley of the Sun for the team doing little in the summer and fall to improve the team. They didn't bring in a receiver to replace Rob Moore when he was lost for the year in the third preseason game, and the Cardinals (2-4) weren't aggressive in trying to make a deal before last week's trading deadline. General manager Bob Ferguson has the title, but Graves has much of the power.
• The Eagles' Brian Mitchell, on quarterback Donovan McNabb dropping a sure touchdown pass from Mitchell on a halfback option: "He was player-hatin' on my passing efficiency."
• It would have been nice to ask Eagles special teams coach John Harbaugh about the brilliant fake field goal call in the 33-14 victory over the Cardinals, but Eagles coach Andy Reid doesn't allow any assistants except his coordinators to speak the media.
• The Bears did one thing right. First-round draft pick Brian Urlacher, a linebacker from New Mexico, has sacks in five consecutive games.
• The Jets have swept New England twice in the past three years and won three consecutive times in Foxboro. The Patriots have lost six of their past seven games against the Jets.
• Jets running back Curtis Martin, who gained 143 yards on 34 carries in Sunday's 34-17 victory over the Patriots, has four 100-yard games in six games against his former team.
• Winless San Diego must have been reminded again Sunday that this isn't their season when a Bills fumble rolled into the end zone and offensive lineman Jerry Ostrosky recovered for a touchdown.
• Add Cleveland's Chris Palmer to the list of coaches in trouble.
• You have to pity poor Tim Couch, the Browns' second-year quarterback who has no running game to back him up. The Browns rushed just nine times in Sunday's loss at Denver, six times by a running back. All of those were by rookie Travis Prentice, who gained just 27 yards.
• Giants coach Jim Fassel almost came unglued on the sideline when a ruling on whether wide receiver Ike Hilliard scored a touchdown was not made because time had expired. The Giants lost two timeouts in the first half on failed replay challenges.
• Pittsburgh improved to 2-7 the past two years in games in which quarterback Kordell Stewart didn't start.
• For the second consecutive game, Redskins wide receiver James Thrash had career high in receptions. He had six catches against Ravens, one more than he had a week ago against Philadelphia.
• Redskins second-year pro Champ Bailey started at cornerback and wide receiver for the first time in his career.
• Colts running back Edgerrin James, on rushing for a franchise record 219 yards in the victory over Seattle: "I don't think it's the last time I'm going to do that. I'm just getting started (in the NFL)."

SportsLine.com's Len Pasquarelli, Mike Kahn and Mike Lurie contributed to this report.