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As 33% of the professional football campaign gone, franchises are beginning to reveal their actual capabilities

Tampa Bay and The Colts emerged as the first franchises to achieve five victories as they continued their impressive beginnings to the campaign

Seattle and New England Patriots are appearing as challengers, while the Pittsburgh Steelers are seeming comfortable in the AFC North

The schedule seems over already for an important pre-season Super Bowl favorites the Ravens, but things only be beginning for The Chiefs

Baker Mayfield Earns MVP Calls

Is Baker Mayfield a Most Valuable Player contender? That is exactly what Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans were chanting subsequent to another all-action showing from their field general in a 30-19 victory over the San Francisco

Mayfield is the key factor the Bucs are 5-1 and he commanded with authority another time, passing a pair of TDs and making each important moment - incorporating an incredible crucial situation run when he powered through tackler after tackler to obtain a vital continued possession

He demonstrates a ability that isn't coachable or trained

Baker's pressure plays had led to each of the four prior wins happening in the final minute - the more decisive manner on Sunday just strengthened his expanding MVP credentials

The Colts quarterback is a similar resurgence tale in for Indianapolis following the Indianapolis defeated the The Cardinals to achieve five and one - their finest opening since the 2009 season

Ball carrier the Colts RB is the additional key player of the the team's unexpected beginning, but Jones produces significant plays at the right time - recording two aerial TDs and one running during the weekend

Certainly Regarding This - The Patriots Are Back

Being a New England Patriots field general comes with a unique pressure thanks to the legendary quarterback, but in Drake Maye they might finally have their future team leader

Following merely his second season, Drake Maye looks composed in the passing area and is unafraid to air the football long - throwing TDs of various distances and witnessing a 61-yard pass nullified by a penalty in the weekend's success at the New Orleans Saints

He is only the next quarterback under 24 to achieve five consecutive matches with more than 200 passing distance and a passer rating of 100 and above

The most recent pair including a national television victory in versus Buffalo followed by, in the deafening noise of the New Orleans stadium, show the reason Patriots supporters are growing excited that - under recently appointed coach the new coach - they may be competitive again

Seattle matched the Patriots on four wins as they secured their ninth in a row road contest - an remarkable 20-12 victory at the Jacksonville Jaguars

Sam Darnold is demonstrating the previous season's improvement in Minnesota was not accidental and he utilizes one of the best wideouts in the league in the receiver, who made 8 grabs for 163 yards and a touchdown in Jacksonville

Pittsburgh's Play-off Route Emerges

The Steelers progressed to 4-1 with a 22nd consecutive successive in Pittsburgh win over the Cleveland Browns in the regular season - and they look to have an open door to the postseason now in a less competitive American Football Conference North

Typically among the most difficult groups in the league but Rodgers' four-win Steelers seem in complete dominance, with their rivals all struggling

The Browns have just a single victory and a persistently unsettled signal-caller circumstance, while Baltimore look finished subsequent to a 17-3 home defeat by the Los Angeles Rams reduced them to 1-5

Merely four teams in professional football the annals have qualified for the playoffs following a 1-5 beginning and, as the quarterback heading an premier casualty report, Baltimore will not be contributing to that statistic

The Bengals were defeated 18-27 in versus Green Bay to decline to 2-4, with veteran Flacco not exactly a equivalent stand-in for {Joe Burrow|Burrow|