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With one-third of the professional football schedule completed, teams are beginning to reveal their true colours

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and The Colts emerged as the initial teams to attain five wins as they continued their notable openings to the season

Seattle and The Patriots are developing as competitors, while Pittsburgh are seeming established in the AFC North

The season appears finished now for a major preseason title game favorites Baltimore, but might be starting to develop for Kansas City

Baker Mayfield Earns MVP Calls

Is Baker Mayfield a Most Valuable Player contender? That's what Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans were chanting subsequent to another energetic performance from their quarterback in a 30-19 victory versus the San Francisco 49ers

Mayfield is the key cause the Tampa Bay are five and one and he directed with authority another time, throwing two touchdowns and producing all the big plays - including an incredible third down rush when he bulled through multiple defenders to obtain a crucial first down

He demonstrates a ability that you can't teach or coach

Mayfield's clutch actions had resulted in each of the four earlier victories coming in the dying moments - the more definitive way this past Sunday just strengthened his growing Most Valuable Player credentials

Indianapolis's signal-caller is a parallel resurgence tale in Indianapolis after the Colts defeated the Arizona to reach five and one - their finest beginning since the 2009 season

Rusher Jonathan Taylor is the other standout of the the team's surprise beginning, but Daniel Jones creates significant plays at the right time - recording two aerial touchdowns and an additional ground on Sunday

Certainly Concerning That - the Pats Are Back

Being a New England field general involves a unique pressure thanks to the former Patriot, but in Drake Maye they might finally have their next face of the franchise

In just his second campaign, the quarterback appears confident in the protection and is not scared to launch the pigskin out - delivering TDs of 25, 29 and 53 yards and having a 61-yard pass ruled out by a violation in the recent victory at the The Saints

He's just the fourth different quarterback younger than 24 to record five in a row contests with over 200 aerial gains and a passer rating of 100 and above

The previous duo featuring a national television win in versus Buffalo then, in the overwhelming atmosphere of the Saints' home, illustrate why New England supporters are getting excited that - guided by recently appointed coach the new coach - they could be back in business

The Seattle Seahawks equaled the The Pats on 4-2 as they won their ninth in a row road contest - an remarkable twenty to twelve win at the Jacksonville

Darnold is demonstrating the prior campaign's improvement in with the Vikings was no fluke and he has a premier receivers in the league in the receiver, who secured eight different receptions for 163 yards and a score in the Sunshine State

Pittsburgh's Postseason Path Emerges

The Steelers advanced to four and one with a 22nd consecutive straight in Pittsburgh win against the The Browns in the regular season - and they appear to have an open door to the play-offs now in a weakened division

Typically one of the toughest groups in football but the quarterback's 4-1 Steelers look in total control, with their rivals all declining

Cleveland have merely a single victory and a continuously complicated quarterback situation, while Baltimore seem completed after a 17-3 in Baltimore defeat by Los Angeles reduced them to one and five

Just four clubs in league the annals have qualified for the postseason subsequent to a one and five start and, while Jackson leading an elite casualty report, the Ravens won't be including to that record

Cincinnati fell 18-27 in Green Bay to drop to two wins, with forty-year-old Flacco not quite a direct stand-in for {Joe Burrow|Burrow|