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Buffalo Bills 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.

BUF 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 Buffalo Bills 2025 minus Pittsburgh Steelers 2016

Metric	BUF	Shift	PIT
Plays	1,194	—	1,189
Pass rate	56.0%	−4.2%	60.2%
Shotgun rate	49.7%	−3.7%	53.5%
Explosive rate	15.3%	+0.9%	14.5%
Success rate	48.8%	+2.8%	46.0%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	62.3%	−2.5%	64.8%
12 personnel	11.5%	−6.6%	18.1%
21 personnel	8.9%	−0.6%	9.5%
13 personnel	5.3%	+0.3%	5.0%
22 personnel	11.0%	+9.6%	1.3%
Other personnel	1.1%	−0.1%	1.2%

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

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