Tom Brady beat out Peyton Manning in the NFL’s Top 100 players of 2011. He’s also a better fantasy option … find out what puts Brady ahead of the Colts quarterback.

Wednesday is Nnamdi Asomugha’s 30th birthday. So why is NFL.com’s Bucky Brooks taking this opportunity to tell NFL teams they shouldn’t be so eager to sign the Raiders’ Pro Bowl cornerback?

Since Joe Namath eclipsed the mark in 1967 – a running era when a 4,000-yard campaign was more myth than reality – there have been 88 instances in which quarterbacks threw for that many yards in a season. Peyton Manning has done it 11 times himself, far and away the most in NFL history.

What better way to conclude the NFL Coaches USO Tour than by spending the Fourth of July with the troops. Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt, Texans coach Gary Kubiak, former NFL coach and current NFL Network analyst Jim Mora Jr. and former Saints and Colts coach Jim Mora Sr. had an opportunity to do just that Monday in Iraq.

Almost time to fire up Favre Watch 2011? On one hand, says NFL.com’s Gil Brandt, yes. Then again, Brandt says, NFL teams might not be all that interested.

We know you’re all waiting impatiently for the new season of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” this summer, and so are we.

Who’s the best corner in the game? For years, Champ Bailey was the popular choice, but does that still hold true with Darrelle Revis and Nnamdi Asomugha in the mix?

Adrian Peterson stops by the NFL Network Studios for a quick portrait session.

Which NFL franchise has produced the most consistently effective offense of the 2000s?

NFL players crowned their No. 1 on NFL Network’s “The Top 100 Players of 2011″ on Sunday night, completing a 10-week voyage that generated as much controversy as it did consensus before coming down to yet another battle between Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. This time, it was Brady’s hour.

The Top 100 has come to a merciful conclusion, and the boys talk about the finale.

U.S. troops serving in Kuwait pose with (left to right) Houston Texans coach Gary Kubiak, former NFL coach and current NFL Network analyst Jim Mora Jr., former New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts head coach Jim Mora Sr., and Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt on Friday, July 1, 2011. This is the first USO tour for the group, who join the growing list of NFL coaches to travel overseas on USO entertainment tours.

Tight end is addressed in today’s Player 2K debate, and the two players debated as the best at their profession in the 2000s — Tony Gonzalez and Antonio Gates — are tough to argue with.

It wouldn’t be a salute to America’s finest here at the NFL if we didn’t take a moment to remember someone who put the NFL a distant second behind his love of country: Pat Tillman.