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

Bills have the NFL’s most points. Vikings are the hardest to score on. Which side gives on Monday? By KSTP Sports Interviews inside Vikings locker room previewing Monday’s game vs. Bills Watch our chats with Vikings LB Andrew Van Ginkel, CB Isaiah Rodgers, LT Christian Darrisaw, CB and Byron Murphy Jr. ahead of Monday’s game vs. the Bills. KSTP will have coverage, starting at 6:30 p.m. The Bills are off to an AFC-best 6-1 start with quarterback Josh Allen in his prime and leading the league’s highest-scoring team. They’ve hit the 30-point mark five times in seven games. The offense will face its toughest test of the season at Minnesota on Monday night. The Vikings are allowing the fewest points in the NFL and lead in several defensive statistical categories. They’re also 6-1 after taking a loss at Detroit because of another struggle on offense. Carson Wentz will replace Kyler Murray at quarterback this week. ***Click the video box above to watch our chats from inside the Vikings locker room*** “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,” Bills QB Josh 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.” Need to know Buffalo (6-1) at Minnesota (6-1) When/where to watch: Monday, 6:30 p.m. pregame, 7:15 p.m. kickoff on KSTP-TV Latest odds: Bills by 3½. Against the spread: Bills 5-2, Vikings 4-3. Last week: Bills beat Ravens 36-10; Vikings lost to Lions 19-15. Last meeting: Vikings beat Bills 33-30 in OT on Nov. 13, 2022, in Buffalo. Series record: Vikings lead 9-6. Bills wins 2018, 2014, 2006, 2002. Matchup to watch Bills running back James Cook vs. Vikings defensive front. Cook, the three-time Pro Bowl pick, is fifth in the league with 707 rushing yards entering Week 9. He’ll face a fired-up Vikings defense, which held the high-scoring Lions to 19 points but lapsed down the stretch with a bunch of missed tackles on running back Jahmyr Gibbs. The Associated Press contributed to this report