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Buffalo Bills 2025 vs Cleveland Browns 2017

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

CLE 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 Cleveland Browns 2017

Metric	BUF	Shift	CLE
Plays	1,194	—	1,004
Pass rate	56.0%	−11.0%	67.0%
Shotgun rate	49.7%	−16.3%	66.0%
Explosive rate	15.3%	+2.8%	12.5%
Success rate	48.8%	+11.6%	37.3%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	62.3%	−1.4%	63.7%
12 personnel	11.5%	−1.1%	12.5%
21 personnel	8.9%	−7.0%	15.8%
13 personnel	5.3%	+1.9%	3.4%
22 personnel	11.0%	+7.8%	3.2%
23 personnel	0.0%	−1.2%	1.2%
Other personnel	1.1%	+1.0%	0.1%

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

Cleveland Browns · 2017

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	531
21 personnel → I_Form	83
11 personnel → Singleback	62
21 personnel → Shotgun	61
12 personnel → Shotgun	58
12 personnel → Singleback	56
11 personnel → Empty	28
22 personnel → I_Form	28
13 personnel → Singleback	17
13 personnel → Shotgun	12
23 personnel → Jumbo	12
11 personnel → Unknown	9
21 personnel → Pistol	7
11 personnel → Pistol	6
12 personnel → I_Form	5
13 personnel → Empty	4
21 personnel → Empty	3
21 personnel → Singleback	3
11 personnel → I_Form	2
11 personnel → Other	2
12 personnel → Empty	2
12 personnel → Jumbo	2
12 personnel → Unknown	2
22 personnel → Singleback	2
12 personnel → Pistol	1
13 personnel → I_Form	1
21 personnel → Jumbo	1
21 personnel → Other	1
22 personnel → Other	1
22 personnel → Pistol	1
Other → Shotgun	1
Shotgun → Pass	525
Shotgun → Run	138
Singleback → Run	85
I_Form → Run	82
Singleback → Pass	55
I_Form → Pass	37
Empty → Pass	33
Jumbo → Run	11
Unknown → Pass	9
Pistol → Pass	8
Pistol → Run	7
Empty → Run	4
Jumbo → Pass	4
Other → Pass	2
Other → Run	2
Unknown → Run	2
Pass → Failure	430
Run → Failure	200
Pass → Success	156
Run → Success	92
Pass → Explosive	87
Run → Explosive	39