and From a hotel room in Williamsville, New York, Matthew Collar here, purple insider, Will Raggots back in Minnesota has not

to come to cover this here football game between the Minnesota Vikings and Buffalo Bills.

And Will, it looks more and more

like Josh Allen is not going to play.

Another day on Thursday of not practicing, they're still calling it day to day. He had something on his elbow. I'm just having a lot of trouble seeing it and seeing it as any sort of smart move, but you know on the plane I was watching get up on ESPN and Mike Greenberg called it the biggest story in football right now, whether Josh Allen was going to play this weekend.

So your thoughts?

I think it is a big story.

I mean you look at the week 10 slate and this is clearly the marquee game.

There's not a lot of other good game. I don't know if there's any other game where

two teams have a winning record. I think there's some, a few of the teams

of winning records are on buys.

So yeah, it's a massive game.

There's storylines on both sides.

The bills are trying to hold on to that number one seed,

which we know how important that is for them with losing to the chiefs in the

playoffs the last two years on the road and the Vikings are trying to prove to people that they're legit and like that doesn't

matter on the one hand like the Vikings don't care if they're seven and one how people view them or how they're winning these games but I mean we cover the NFL we're talking about the narratives it's a real thing like people

nationally don't necessarily believe the Vikings have shown that much or

accomplished that much so far and there's probably some validity to that when you look at

how they've been winning these

games and who they've been winning them against. So that part of it is a little bit

disappointing like I personally just want to watch Josh Allen play and and see the Vikings defense tested against one of the best

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