Mark Craig's Week 4 NFL power rankings

MARK CRAIG'S WEEK 4 POWER RANKINGS

In three games vs. Baltimore's bone-rattling defense, Patrick Mahomes is 3-0 and averaging 31.3 points, 379 yards passing, three touchdowns and a 116.2 passer rating.

Lamar will need to reach another passing gear if he wants to create a true rivalry with the full-throttled Mahomes.

Seattle is 2-0 when giving up more than 500 yards. And 2-0 when giving up 30 or more points. Russell Wilson is the ultimate fixer.

Thirty-eight carries, 250 yards and another defense demoralized by Ground Belichick.

Can Jordan Love play receiver ? ARodg looks like he's going to be sticking around a bit longer.

Three games. Fifteen sacks. Yep, sounds about right for Blitzburgh.

Here is what Buffalo's offense did after an opening three-and-out: TD, TD, TD, TD. Fifteen first downs and a 28-3 lead. Over the Rams. That's why Stefon is so happy.

Reigning sack king Shaq Barrett notches his first two sacks for a defense that's fifth in yards and eighth in points. And, oh yeah, Tom Brady threw three touchdown passes.

For Vikings fans who've grown rusty in their angst with kickers, Tennessee's guy went 6-for-6 with three makes of 50-plus. Your guy went 1-for-2.

In Mitchell do the Bears trust? Not anymore.

Getting stomped by the Patriots' running game is going to become a familiar feeling around the league.

They seem very good. Alvin Kamara seems better than that.

You beat the 49ers and you lose to Detroit? Really? Maybe it's the Cardinals who were who we thought they were.

Unless you're related to Nick Mullens, don't get too excited. Those 343 passing yards and 8-for-11 success rate on third down came against the Giants.

Basically third string three weeks ago, running back Darrell Henderson posted 114 yards and a touchdown on 20 carries against the Bills.

They put up 522 yards of offense and lost. Welcome to playing Russell Wilson.

Indianapolis has the best offensive line as well as the only defense that has yet to allow an opponent to reach 300 yards.

If Kevin Stefanski keeps winning like this, he'll never be able to win the 2021 draft.

FitzMagic or JagTragic, didn't see that Thursday night beatdown coming.

With Christian McCaffrey on IR, Carolina went 1-for-6 in scoring touchdowns in the red zone, but won on Joey Slye field goals of 29, 24, 30, 22 and 31 yards.

Justin Herbert has another 300-yard game, but throws an ugly and very costly pick right before the half.

The overachieving Gardner Minshew looked more like he is supposed to look in a loss to the Dolphins.

Dwayne Haskins has played 12 NFL games. He has been sacked 39 times.

The 11-game losing streak finally ends as Detroit plays defense the way it rarely has under defensive-minded Matt Patricia.

How bad is Houston's pass protection? Put it this way. The Vikings allow a sack on 9% of their pass plays. Houston is at 13.7%, a league worst.

With a trip to Seattle for Game 5, the Vikings probably need to beat Houston on Sunday to avoid matching the 1962 team's franchise-worst 0-5 start. The only 0-4 starts in 59 years of Vikings football: 1962, 1967, 2002 and 2011.

Denver has started eight quarterbacks since 2016. Brett Rypien might become No. 9 on Thursday night.

Joe Burrow is taking hits that make crash dummies wince.

Philadelphia ties Cincinnati to move half a win ahead of the Vikings in the battle to avoid becoming the most disappointing NFC team that made the playoffs in 2019.

The Falcons led late. Then they didn't. Then they lost. The end.

The Giants are the best 0-3 team that plays home games at MetLife Stadium.

Nipped again by a mere 29 points, Adam Gase is now 30-38 with 30 double-digit losses as an NFL head coach.