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Atlanta Falcons 2025 vs Pittsburgh Steelers 2016

Two offensive identities side by side — any team, any season against any other — the flow of each attack and a play-calling ledger with the shift on every metric.

ATL season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

PIT season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

AARI ATL BAL BUF CAR CHI CIN CLE DAL DEN DET GB HOU IND JAX KC LA LAC LV MIA MIN NE NO NYG NYJ PHI PIT SEA SF TB TEN WAS

BARI ATL BAL BUF CAR CHI CIN CLE DAL DEN DET GB HOU IND JAX KC LA LAC LV MIA MIN NE NO NYG NYJ PHI PIT SEA SF TB TEN WAS

Play-calling ledger · the shift is Atlanta Falcons 2025 minus Pittsburgh Steelers 2016

Metric	ATL	Shift	PIT
Plays	1,032	—	1,189
Pass rate	56.5%	−3.7%	60.2%
Shotgun rate	47.6%	−5.9%	53.5%
Explosive rate	13.0%	−1.5%	14.5%
Success rate	43.7%	−2.3%	46.0%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	45.5%	−19.3%	64.8%
12 personnel	37.7%	+19.6%	18.1%
21 personnel	9.3%	−0.2%	9.5%
13 personnel	7.0%	+2.0%	5.0%
22 personnel	0.0%	−1.3%	1.3%
Other personnel	0.5%	−0.7%	1.2%

Read the ledger, then the flows below: the table is the precise shift; the alluvials are the shape.

Atlanta Falcons · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	327
12 personnel → Pistol	165
11 personnel → Pistol	114
12 personnel → Under Center	113
12 personnel → Shotgun	111
13 personnel → Under Center	50
21 personnel → Shotgun	49
21 personnel → Pistol	42
11 personnel → Under Center	28
13 personnel → Pistol	19
21 personnel → Under Center	5
13 personnel → Shotgun	3
Other → Pistol	2
Other → Under Center	2
11 personnel → Unknown	1
Other → Shotgun	1
Shotgun → Pass	448
Pistol → Run	268
Under Center → Run	137
Pistol → Pass	74
Under Center → Pass	61
Shotgun → Run	43
Unknown → Run	1
Pass → Failure	319
Run → Failure	262
Pass → Success	181
Run → Success	136
Pass → Explosive	83
Run → Explosive	51

Pittsburgh Steelers · 2016

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	585
12 personnel → Singleback	122
21 personnel → I_Form	94
11 personnel → Empty	86
11 personnel → Singleback	72
12 personnel → Shotgun	32
13 personnel → Singleback	32
12 personnel → I_Form	31
12 personnel → Empty	24
11 personnel → Pistol	18
13 personnel → I_Form	15
21 personnel → Shotgun	10
Other → Empty	8
13 personnel → Empty	7
11 personnel → I_Form	5
11 personnel → Unknown	5
21 personnel → Singleback	5
22 personnel → Other	5
22 personnel → Singleback	5
12 personnel → Other	4
Other → Shotgun	4
13 personnel → Other	3
21 personnel → Empty	3
22 personnel → Shotgun	3
12 personnel → Pistol	2
13 personnel → Shotgun	2
22 personnel → I_Form	2
21 personnel → Pistol	1
22 personnel → Pistol	1
Other → I_Form	1
Other → Pistol	1
Unknown → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	469
Shotgun → Run	167
Singleback → Run	154
Empty → Pass	127
I_Form → Run	126
Singleback → Pass	82
I_Form → Pass	22
Pistol → Run	13
Other → Run	10
Pistol → Pass	10
Unknown → Pass	4
Other → Pass	2
Unknown → Run	2
Empty → Run	1
Pass → Failure	375
Run → Failure	267
Pass → Success	226
Run → Success	149
Pass → Explosive	115
Run → Explosive	57