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Bills have the NFL’s most points. Vikings are the hardest to score on. Which side gives on Monday?

Ella Rodriguez
Sports Reporter · Friday, November 6, 2026 at 3:57 AM · 3 min read
Bills have the NFL’s most points. Vikings are the hardest to score on. Which side gives on Monday?

Uncategorized Bills have the NFL’s most points. Vikings are the hardest to score on. Which side gives on Monday? November 5, 2026 3 min read Minnesota Vikings linebacker Dallas Turner (15) sacks Indianapolis Colts quarterback Daniel Jones during the first half of an NFL football game in Minneapolis, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn) Trending MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Buffalo Bills are back to playing their usual catch-us-if-you-can game this season under first-year coach Joe Brady, cruising to an AFC-best 6-1 start with quarterback Josh Allen in his prime and thriving as a constant pass-run threat. Forgive the 2024 NFL MVP if he’s not feeling fully confident about the upcoming game. When the Bills visit the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night, their offense will line up against the toughest team to score against in the league. "They’re the number one defense for a reason, so they’re giving a lot of teams fits, a lot of good opposing offenses as well,” Allen said. "It’s just going to be a hard week." But he didn’t stop there. "As a competitor, you're like, 'Yeah, heck yeah!' I want to play the best," Allen said. "I want to go out there and prove why we are what you say, the number one offense. I know it's statistically speaking, but that's still a chip on our shoulder. We want to go out there and be the best offense that we can be." The Bills, who have hit the 30-point mark in three straight games and five times out of seven, have scored on 43 of 70 drives this season that didn’t end in a kneel-down. They’ll try to keep the ball moving in front of a deafening U.S. Bank Stadium crowd against a Vikings defense that leads the NFL in several statistical categories. According to the league, this will mark the first time since 2013 that a team averaging 33 or more points will play a team allowing 14 or fewer points in Week 9 or later. The not-so-secret sauce for the Vikings under defensive coordinator Brian Flores is the blitz, sending at least one extra pass rusher on nearly three-quarters of the drop-backs they’ve faced, a league-record rate since tracking began a decade ago. Allen’s size, instinct and speed make him a dangerous player to blitz, with his ability to sidestep the rush and break a tackle or two for a momentum-changing first down. "There's risk-reward in pressuring people every week, and it's certainly our play style,” Flores said. "I don't know if we're going to go too far away from it, but we're not going to be reckless and we understand that with a guy like this you can have an unblocked defender and he can make that guy miss." The Vikings, who fell to 6-1 after persistent trouble for the offense precipitated a loss at division rival Detroit, have bigger problems than deciding whether or not to blitz. Struggling quarterback Kyler Murray will sit this week with a hamstring strain, and Carson Wentz will start. "It's really not a whole formula or a whole rocket science on what can we do to get better," wide receiver Justin Jefferson said. "It's just simple small things that we're doing to hurt ourselves in different ways throughout the game that make us lose that game. But all in all, we're still 6-1. We're still a good team."

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