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With 33% of the National Football League schedule gone, teams are beginning to reveal their true colours

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts became the pioneering clubs to attain a 5-1 record as they maintained their notable beginnings to the season

Seattle and New England Patriots are developing as competitors, while Pittsburgh are seeming comfortable in the AFC North

The schedule appears concluded already for a major pre-season title game top picks Baltimore, but could just be getting going for the Kansas City Chiefs

Baker Mayfield Receives MVP Chants

Is Baker Mayfield in the running for top honors? That's what Bucs supporters were yelling after a further dynamic showing from their quarterback in a 30-19 victory versus the San Francisco

The 30-year-old is the main reason the Buccaneers are with five wins and he commanded as a leader another time, throwing two touchdowns and producing all the big plays - incorporating an remarkable crucial situation rush when he barged past multiple defenders to secure a crucial first down

He has a ability that cannot be taught or trained

The quarterback's pressure actions had led to every one of the four previous victories occurring in the dying moments - the clearer approach this past Sunday just strengthened his increasing Most Valuable Player arguments

Daniel Jones is a similar comeback narrative in with the Colts after the The Colts defeated the The Cardinals to achieve five victories - their best beginning from nine years ago

Rusher Taylor is the other key player of the Colts' unexpected opening, but Jones creates significant actions at the right juncture - recording a pair of passing scores and a single running on Sunday

Definitely Regarding This - the Pats Are Back

Serving as a Patriots field general comes with a particular burden because of Tom Brady, but with Drake Maye they could finally have their next team leader

Following merely his sophomore year, Drake Maye looks poised in the passing area and is fearless to launch the ball out - delivering scores of 25, 29 and 53 yards and having a 61-yarder disallowed by a penalty in the weekend's win at the New Orleans Saints

He becomes the next signal-caller below age 24 to record five straight matches with more than 200 aerial distance and a passer rating of 100 or higher

The last two featuring a national television success in against the Bills then, in the overwhelming sound of the Superdome, show the reason Patriots supporters are growing optimistic that - guided by new head coach Vrabel - they may be a force once more

The Seattle Seahawks joined the Patriots on four wins as they secured their ninth consecutive away contest - an impressive 20-12 success at the Jacksonville Jaguars

Sam Darnold is proving last year's comeback in for Minnesota was genuine and he has a premier receivers in the league in Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who secured 8 grabs for 163 total yards and a TD in the Sunshine State

Pittsburgh Steelers' Postseason Path Opens Up

Pittsburgh moved to four and one with a twenty-second straight home win versus the The Browns in the campaign - and they appear to have an open door to the postseason at present in a softer American Football Conference North

Typically a particularly challenging groups in the league but the quarterback's four-win The Steelers look in complete control, with their rivals everyone flagging

The Browns have just a single victory and a continuously messy signal-caller circumstance, while Baltimore seem done for subsequent to a 17-3 in Baltimore setback by Los Angeles dropped them to one win

Just four franchises in league history have reached the playoffs following a 1-5 opening and, as the quarterback topping an elite injury list, Baltimore won't be adding to that record

The Cincinnati Bengals fell 18-27 in against the Packers to decline to two and four, with veteran Flacco hardly a equivalent replacement for {Joe Burrow|Burrow|