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Now that one-third of the professional football season completed, franchises are beginning to reveal their true colours

Tampa Bay and Indianapolis emerged as the pioneering teams to achieve a 5-1 record as they persisted with their impressive openings to the campaign

Seattle and New England Patriots are emerging as competitors, while Pittsburgh are seeming settled in the Northern division

This campaign seems over already for an important preseason title game favourites the Ravens, but things be starting to develop for The Chiefs

Tampa Bay's leader Gets MVP Shouts

Would Baker Mayfield in the running for top honors? That is exactly what Bucs supporters were yelling subsequent to another all-action display from their field general in a 30-19 victory against the San Francisco 49ers

Mayfield is the main factor the Bucs are with five wins and he directed as a leader once more, throwing two scoring passes and making each important moment - featuring an remarkable third down run when he barged past several opponents to get a vital new set of downs

He possesses a knack that you can't teach or instructed

Mayfield's crucial performances had led to each of the four prior victories occurring in the final minute - the clearer way this past Sunday only enhanced his expanding top performer arguments

The Colts quarterback is a parallel resurgence tale in for Indianapolis after the Colts defeated the Arizona to reach five victories - their finest beginning from nine years ago

Ball carrier the Colts RB is the other key player of the the team's surprise start, but the quarterback makes important plays at the appropriate juncture - registering a pair of passing TDs and one running on Sunday

Definitely Concerning That - New England Are Back

Being a New England field general includes a unique burden thanks to the former Patriot, but in Drake Maye they might at last have their future face of the franchise

Following merely his sophomore year, Maye appears composed in the passing area and is not scared to throw the ball out - passing TDs of multiple lengths and witnessing a long completion ruled out by a violation in the weekend's success at the The Saints

He's just the fourth different QB under 24 to record five straight contests with more than 200 passing yards and a QB rating of 100 and above

The last two featuring a primetime win in against the Bills followed by, in the deafening atmosphere of the Superdome, demonstrate the reason Pats fans are growing excited that - under recently appointed coach the new coach - they could be a force once more

The Seattle Seahawks equaled the Patriots on four and two as they achieved their ninth in a row visiting contest - an notable twenty to twelve success at the The Jaguars

Sam Darnold is proving the previous season's comeback in with the Vikings was no fluke and he utilizes a premier pass catchers in the sport in Smith-Njigba, who made eight different receptions for 163 total yards and a TD in the Sunshine State

The Steelers' Play-off Route Opens Up

The Steelers advanced to 4-1 with a 22nd consecutive successive in Pittsburgh victory against the The Browns in the campaign - and they seem to have an clear path to the playoffs at present in a less competitive American Football Conference North

Normally a particularly challenging groups in football but Rodgers' 4-1 The Steelers seem in absolute command, with their opponents all declining

Cleveland have only one win and a persistently unsettled signal-caller situation, while the Baltimore Ravens seem completed after a seventeen to three in Baltimore setback by the Los Angeles Rams dropped them to one win

Merely four clubs in professional football history have qualified for the postseason following a 1-5 beginning and, as Lamar Jackson heading an all-star casualty report, Baltimore won't be adding to that statistic

The Bengals were defeated 18-27 in Green Bay to fall to two wins, with forty-year-old Flacco hardly a direct replacement for {Joe Burrow|Burrow|