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With a third of the professional football schedule completed, franchises are demonstrating their actual capabilities

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and The Colts emerged as the pioneering teams to achieve a 5-1 record as they persisted with their remarkable beginnings to the season

The Seahawks and New England Patriots are emerging as challengers, while The Steelers are looking comfortable in the American Football Conference North

The season appears over already for a major pre-season Super Bowl favorites the Ravens, but could only be beginning for The Chiefs

The Buccaneers quarterback Gets Most Valuable Player Calls

Is Baker Mayfield an MVP candidate? That's what Tampa Bay faithful were chanting subsequent to a further dynamic performance from their quarterback in a successful outcome versus the San Francisco 49ers

Mayfield is the key reason the Tampa Bay are with five wins and he led from the front once more, delivering a pair of TDs and making each important moment - featuring an remarkable crucial situation carry when he powered past multiple defenders to get a vital new set of downs

He possesses a ability that isn't coachable or instructed

The quarterback's clutch performances had resulted in each of the four prior victories happening in the last minute - the clearer way on Sunday only enhanced his growing MVP arguments

Indianapolis's signal-caller is a similar resurgence story in with the Colts following the Colts defeated the Arizona to go to five and one - their finest opening after 2009

Running back the Colts RB is the second star of the Colts' surprise opening, but the quarterback makes big plays at the right juncture - registering two throwing TDs and one rushing this past Sunday

Definitely Concerning That - The Patriots Have Returned

Serving as a New England Patriots quarterback involves a special pressure due to Tom Brady, but in Drake Maye they may at last have their next franchise quarterback

In just his sophomore year, Drake Maye looks composed in the passing area and is fearless to air the football out - throwing TDs of 25, 29 and 53 yards and seeing a long completion disallowed by a violation in the recent success at the The Saints

He is only the fourth quarterback below age 24 to record five in a row matches with over 200 throwing distance and a passer rating of 100 or higher

The most recent pair featuring a prime-time victory in versus Buffalo followed by, in the deafening sound of the Superdome, show the reason New England fans are getting enthusiastic that - under new leader Vrabel - they could be back in business

The Seahawks equaled the New England on four wins as they secured their ninth consecutive away contest - an impressive twenty to twelve win at the Jacksonville

The quarterback is proving the previous season's comeback in for Minnesota was not accidental and he utilizes a premier pass catchers in the league in Smith-Njigba, who made eight grabs for 163 yards and a TD in Jacksonville

Pittsburgh's Playoff Opportunity Opens Up

The Steelers progressed to 4-1 with a twenty-second straight at home victory against the The Browns in the regular season - and they look to have an clear path to the playoffs now in a softer American Football Conference North

Typically one of the toughest divisions in football but Rodgers' four and one The Steelers seem in total command, with their rivals everyone struggling

The Browns have just one success and a continuously complicated quarterback situation, while The Ravens seem done for subsequent to a 17-3 in Baltimore setback by The Rams reduced them to one win

Only four franchises in NFL all-time records have reached the postseason subsequent to a single victory opening and, as Jackson topping an elite injury list, Baltimore will not be contributing to that stat

Cincinnati fell eighteen to twenty-seven in Green Bay to decline to 2-4, with forty-year-old Flacco hardly a equivalent substitute for {Joe Burrow|Burrow|