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As a third of the NFL season finished, teams are starting to show their actual capabilities

Tampa Bay and Indianapolis Colts achieved status as the first franchises to reach five wins as they maintained their remarkable starts to the season

Seattle and New England are emerging as challengers, while The Steelers are looking settled in the Northern division

This campaign appears concluded already for a major preseason title game top picks Baltimore, but could only be beginning for Kansas City

Baker Mayfield Gets Most Valuable Player Chants

Would Baker Mayfield an MVP candidate? That is exactly what Bucs supporters were chanting subsequent to another energetic showing from their field general in a successful outcome against the San Francisco

The quarterback is the key factor the Bucs are with five wins and he led as a leader another time, delivering two touchdowns and executing all the big plays - incorporating an remarkable third down carry when he barged through tackler after tackler to obtain a crucial new set of downs

He has a talent that isn't coachable or coach

Baker's crucial actions had resulted in each of the four prior victories occurring in the last minute - the clearer approach on Sunday further boosted his expanding MVP arguments

Daniel Jones is a comparable comeback narrative in with the Colts following the Colts beat the Arizona Cardinals to achieve 5-1 - their finest start from nine years ago

Running back the Colts RB is the additional key player of the Colts' surprise beginning, but the quarterback makes significant moments at the appropriate time - achieving dual passing scores and a single rushing on Sunday

Certainly Regarding This - The Patriots Are Competitive Again

Being a New England quarterback includes a particular burden thanks to the legendary quarterback, but in Drake Maye they could eventually have their next team leader

In just his second season, Maye looks composed in the pocket and is fearless to launch the football long - passing scores of 25, 29 and 53 yards and having a long completion nullified by a penalty in the recent victory at the The Saints

He becomes the next quarterback under 24 to produce five consecutive matches with over 200 throwing distance and a efficiency rating of 100 and above

The most recent pair being a primetime victory in against the Bills followed by, in the overwhelming atmosphere of the Saints' home, illustrate why Patriots fans are becoming enthusiastic that - guided by fresh coach Vrabel - they might be a force once more

Seattle equaled the New England on 4-2 as they achieved their ninth in a row road game - an remarkable 20-12 victory at the The Jaguars

Sam Darnold is showing the prior campaign's improvement in Minnesota was no fluke and he possesses one of the best wideouts in the league in the receiver, who made eight receptions for 163 yards and a touchdown in the Sunshine State

Pittsburgh Steelers' Postseason Route Opens Up

The Steelers advanced to four wins with a 22nd consecutive straight in Pittsburgh win versus the The Browns in the campaign - and they seem to have an open door to the play-offs at present in a weakened AFC North

It's usually a particularly challenging divisions in football but Aaron Rodgers' four and one The Steelers seem in total dominance, with their rivals all flagging

The Browns have just one success and a continuously unsettled QB circumstance, while Baltimore seem completed after a 17-3 home setback by the Los Angeles Rams dropped them to one and five

Merely four clubs in NFL all-time records have qualified for the playoffs subsequent to a 1-5 start and, with the quarterback heading an premier casualty report, the Ravens is unlikely to be including to that statistic

The Cincinnati Bengals were defeated 18-27 in versus Green Bay to fall to 2-4, with 40-year-old Flacco not exactly a like-for-like replacement for {Joe Burrow|Burrow|