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Buffalo Bills 2025 vs Chicago Bears 2018

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.

BUF season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

CHI 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 Buffalo Bills 2025 minus Chicago Bears 2018

Metric	BUF	Shift	CHI
Plays	1,194	—	1,057
Pass rate	56.0%	−3.4%	59.4%
Shotgun rate	49.7%	−21.0%	70.8%
Explosive rate	15.3%	+4.2%	11.2%
Success rate	48.8%	+3.6%	45.2%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	62.3%	−0.3%	62.6%
12 personnel	11.5%	−6.0%	17.5%
21 personnel	8.9%	−3.7%	12.6%
13 personnel	5.3%	+3.3%	2.0%
22 personnel	11.0%	+9.8%	1.1%
31 personnel	0.0%	−1.1%	1.1%
Other personnel	1.1%	−1.6%	2.6%

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

Buffalo Bills · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	510
11 personnel → Under Center	227
22 personnel → Under Center	123
12 personnel → Under Center	92
21 personnel → Under Center	83
13 personnel → Under Center	57
12 personnel → Shotgun	43
21 personnel → Shotgun	16
Other → Shotgun	11
22 personnel → Shotgun	8
21 personnel → Pistol	7
11 personnel → Pistol	6
13 personnel → Shotgun	6
Other → Under Center	2
11 personnel → Unknown	1
12 personnel → Pistol	1
12 personnel → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	488
Under Center → Run	413
Under Center → Pass	171
Shotgun → Run	106
Pistol → Pass	10
Pistol → Run	4
Unknown → Run	2
Pass → Failure	338
Run → Failure	273
Pass → Success	210
Run → Success	190
Pass → Explosive	121
Run → Explosive	62

Chicago Bears · 2018

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	511
12 personnel → Shotgun	110
21 personnel → Shotgun	96
11 personnel → Singleback	76
11 personnel → Empty	59
12 personnel → Singleback	51
12 personnel → I_Form	13
21 personnel → Singleback	13
Other → Shotgun	13
31 personnel → Shotgun	11
12 personnel → Empty	9
22 personnel → I_Form	9
21 personnel → Empty	8
21 personnel → I_Form	8
13 personnel → Singleback	7
11 personnel → Unknown	6
13 personnel → Shotgun	6
21 personnel → Other	6
11 personnel → I_Form	5
13 personnel → Empty	5
Other → Singleback	5
11 personnel → Other	4
Other → Jumbo	4
13 personnel → Jumbo	3
22 personnel → Jumbo	3
Other → Empty	3
21 personnel → Unknown	2
Unknown → Singleback	2
11 personnel → Jumbo	1
12 personnel → Jumbo	1
12 personnel → Other	1
31 personnel → Unknown	1
Other → I_Form	1
Other → Other	1
Other → Unknown	1
Unknown → Shotgun	1
Unknown → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	487
Shotgun → Run	261
Singleback → Run	120
Empty → Pass	82
Singleback → Pass	34
I_Form → Run	23
I_Form → Pass	13
Jumbo → Run	10
Other → Run	8
Unknown → Pass	6
Unknown → Run	5
Other → Pass	4
Empty → Run	2
Jumbo → Pass	2
Pass → Failure	326
Run → Failure	253
Pass → Success	221
Run → Success	139
Pass → Explosive	81
Run → Explosive	37