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With 33% of the professional football season completed, teams are demonstrating their true colours

Tampa Bay and Indianapolis emerged as the pioneering teams to achieve five victories as they continued their impressive openings to the schedule

The Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots are appearing as challengers, while Pittsburgh are appearing established in the AFC North

The season appears finished now for an important pre-season title game favorites the Ravens, but might only be beginning for the Kansas City Chiefs

The Buccaneers quarterback Receives MVP Calls

Is Baker Mayfield in the running for top honors? That is exactly what Tampa Bay faithful were yelling following another all-action display from their field general in a successful outcome over the San Francisco 49ers

The 30-year-old is the primary reason the Tampa Bay are five and one and he directed with authority once more, throwing a pair of TDs and producing each important moment - featuring an amazing third down carry when he bulled past tackler after tackler to get a crucial first down

He has a knack that isn't coachable or trained

Baker's crucial performances had resulted in every one of the four prior wins occurring in the dying moments - the more definitive way on Sunday just strengthened his expanding Most Valuable Player arguments

Daniel Jones is a parallel resurgence story in with the Colts after the Colts overcame the Arizona Cardinals to achieve five victories - their finest opening after nine years ago

Running back the Colts RB is the additional standout of the Indianapolis's surprise opening, but Jones produces significant actions at the correct juncture - registering a pair of aerial touchdowns and one rushing on Sunday

Certainly Regarding This - New England Have Returned

Occupying the position of a New England field general includes a unique pressure thanks to Tom Brady, but in Drake Maye they may finally have their upcoming team leader

Following merely his second season, Maye seems poised in the protection and is not scared to air the ball out - throwing scores of various distances and having a long completion disallowed by a penalty in the weekend's victory at the New Orleans

He is only the fourth QB below age 24 to produce five in a row matches with over 200 aerial gains and a efficiency rating of 100 or higher

The last two being a primetime win in Buffalo then, in the deafening noise of the Superdome, illustrate the explanation for Pats supporters are getting optimistic that - under recently appointed coach the new coach - they may be competitive again

Seattle joined the New England on 4-2 as they achieved their ninth in a row road game - an impressive 20-12 win at the Jacksonville

Sam Darnold is demonstrating last year's comeback in with the Vikings was not accidental and he has a premier receivers in the game in Smith-Njigba, who secured eight grabs for substantial yardage and a touchdown in Jacksonville

Pittsburgh Steelers' Postseason Path Becomes Clear

Pittsburgh moved to four wins with a twenty-second straight home victory versus the Cleveland in the regular season - and they seem to have an favorable opportunity to the play-offs now in a softer AFC North

It's usually among the most difficult sections around but Aaron Rodgers' four and one Steelers look in absolute control, with their competitors each flagging

The Browns have just one success and a continuously unsettled signal-caller situation, while the Baltimore Ravens appear completed subsequent to a 17-3 home loss by The Rams reduced them to one and five

Merely four franchises in professional football all-time records have qualified for the play-offs after a single victory start and, with the quarterback leading an elite injury list, the team will not be including to that record

The Cincinnati Bengals lost 18-27 in Green Bay to decline to two wins, with veteran Joe Flacco hardly a direct stand-in for {Joe Burrow|Burrow|