What’s a Monday morning without a chance to hear Dave Dameshek vent about Sunday night’s episode of “Top 100 Players of 2011,” which aired on NFL Network?

A group of 10 elite running backs have earned their place on NFL Network’s “The Top 100 Players of 2011″ series. Kansas City Chiefs blazer Jamaal Charles (No. 33) and St. Louis Rams mainstay Steven Jackson (No. 38) were revealed in Sunday night’s telecast. NFL Network analyst Marshall Faulk, one of the greatest running back to ever suit up for the Rams, thinks Jackson deserved to be higher. The rankings are based completely on votes from NFL players. “When you look at what he brings to the table, he’s a complete back,” Faulk said on Sunday night’s “Top 100: Players of 2011 Reactions” show. “He can take it the distance, he gets the tough yardage, and yes, he carries the [...]

The most recent edition of the Top 100 might have battered our heroes Dave Dameshek and Adam Rank into submission.

It’s one of the better debates around the NFL, and luckily Rich Eisen wouldn’t let Marshall Faulk ride the fence on this one: Who is better between Adrian Peterson and Chris Johnson?

The way Philip Rivers sees it, maybe the Chargers can fly below the radar during the locked-out NFL offseason. As much as he’s stir crazy during the lockout, he sees the lack of attention focused on his team as a good thing.

The signs pointing out Steve Smith’s future seem to be angled in every direction.

It raised plenty of eyebrows around NFL Network a few months back when Ndamukong Suh said there’s no reason the Lions can’t go 16-0 next season.

No question we’re getting a lot of blog mileage out of LaMarr Woodley’s visit to the NFL Network studios on Thursday.

Many involved with the NFL feel the best way to rate team offense is by how often they bloat the scoreboard.

The Broncos plan to run the football more often in 2011, which is good news for the value of Knowshon Moreno. Or is it?

And we’re down to No. 1. In Elliot Harrison‘s breakdown of the top 20 games of 2010, his gold medal goes to a late-season thriller between the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants — that essentially ended the Giants’ playoff hopes and invigorated those of the Green Bay Packers.

While Andy Dalton and Jordan Palmer throw the passes at the workouts organized by Bengals players, the Carson Palmer-Mike Brown stalemate hangs over the organization like a dark, polluted cloud.

Steelers LB LaMarr Woodley, who says he did not vote in “The Top 100,” told fans he thinks he should have been rated better than his No. 82 overall ranking and that the AFC Champions were underrepresented on the list.

Young NFL.com readers will hear the name Ed O’Neill and think of Jay from the current TV hit “Modern Family.” Slightly older fans will immediately think of Al Bundy from “Married… With Children.” And even older fans will remember Ed O’Neill as a rookie with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The locked-out offseason has afforded us ample time to discuss where Randy Moss will play next season, and just how much the 13-year veteran has left in the tank after a forgettable 2010 season in which he played for three teams.