Baker Mayfield's Tampa Bay Win Again as MVP Chants Intensify

With one-third of the National Football League schedule gone, franchises are demonstrating their actual capabilities

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis emerged as the first clubs to achieve five wins as they persisted with their remarkable starts to the campaign

Seattle and New England are emerging as challengers, while the Pittsburgh Steelers are appearing established in the Northern division

The schedule looks finished at this point for a major pre-season title game top picks Baltimore, but could only be beginning for Kansas City

The Buccaneers quarterback Earns MVP Calls

Would Baker Mayfield in the running for top honors? That's what Tampa Bay faithful were shouting following another energetic showing from their field general in a 30-19 win versus the The 49ers

The 30-year-old is the key reason the Buccaneers are with five wins and he directed from the front another time, delivering two touchdowns and producing every crucial play - incorporating an amazing crucial situation carry when he powered by several opponents to secure a crucial first down

He demonstrates a talent that cannot be taught or coach

Baker's pressure performances had led to each of the four previous wins happening in the final minute - the clearer approach during the weekend only enhanced his growing MVP arguments

Indianapolis's signal-caller is a parallel resurgence story in for Indianapolis following the Colts defeated the The Cardinals to achieve five victories - their finest beginning after nine years ago

Ball carrier the Colts RB is the second standout of the Colts' surprise opening, but Jones creates important actions at the correct juncture - registering two aerial scores and an additional ground during the weekend

Certainly Concerning That - The Patriots Are Competitive Again

Being a Patriots field general comes with a special burden thanks to Tom Brady, but in Drake Maye they could at last have their future team leader

Following merely his second campaign, Drake Maye appears confident in the protection and is not scared to launch the ball downfield - throwing TDs of 25, 29 and 53 yards and seeing a long completion nullified by a violation in the weekend's win at the The Saints

He becomes the fourth different signal-caller below age 24 to produce five straight games with 200-plus throwing yards and a efficiency rating of 100 and above

The last two featuring a national television win in versus Buffalo then, in the intense noise of the Saints' home, demonstrate the reason New England fans are getting optimistic that - with new head coach Mike Vrabel - they might be a force once more

The Seahawks joined the The Pats on four and two as they achieved their ninth straight visiting game - an notable 20-12 win at the The Jaguars

Darnold is demonstrating the previous season's comeback in for Minnesota was not accidental and he possesses a premier wideouts in the sport in Smith-Njigba, who secured eight different receptions for 163 yards and a touchdown in the Sunshine State

Pittsburgh Steelers' Postseason Path Opens Up

Pittsburgh advanced to four wins with a twenty-second straight home win against the Cleveland Browns in the regular season - and they appear to have an clear path to the play-offs now in a softer AFC North

Typically a particularly challenging divisions in football but the quarterback's 4-1 Pittsburgh look in total command, with their opponents everyone flagging

The Browns have only one success and a persistently unsettled QB circumstance, while Baltimore seem completed following a seventeen to three at home setback by Los Angeles lowered them to one and five

Only four franchises in league history have qualified for the play-offs subsequent to a single victory opening and, as the quarterback leading an elite injured reserve, the Ravens is unlikely to be including to that record

The Bengals were defeated 18-27 in against the Packers to decline to 2-4, with forty-year-old Flacco not quite a like-for-like replacement for {Joe Burrow|Burrow|