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Carolina Panthers 2025 vs San Francisco 49ers 2019

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.

CAR season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

SF 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 Carolina Panthers 2025 minus San Francisco 49ers 2019

Metric	CAR	Shift	SF
Plays	1,054	—	1,158
Pass rate	59.4%	+8.6%	50.8%
Shotgun rate	59.8%	+22.5%	37.3%
Explosive rate	11.6%	−4.8%	16.4%
Success rate	43.2%	−2.0%	45.2%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	66.6%	+25.9%	40.7%
12 personnel	21.0%	+2.5%	18.5%
21 personnel	1.8%	−27.3%	29.1%
13 personnel	8.3%	+7.1%	1.1%
22 personnel	1.0%	−9.0%	10.0%
Other personnel	1.3%	+0.7%	0.6%

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

Carolina Panthers · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	552
12 personnel → Under Center	150
11 personnel → Under Center	104
13 personnel → Under Center	79
11 personnel → Pistol	45
12 personnel → Shotgun	45
12 personnel → Pistol	26
21 personnel → Shotgun	15
Other → Shotgun	13
22 personnel → Under Center	10
13 personnel → Pistol	4
13 personnel → Shotgun	4
21 personnel → Pistol	2
21 personnel → Under Center	2
11 personnel → Unknown	1
22 personnel → Shotgun	1
Other → Pistol	1
Shotgun → Pass	507
Under Center → Run	256
Shotgun → Run	123
Under Center → Pass	89
Pistol → Run	49
Pistol → Pass	29
Unknown → Pass	1
Pass → Failure	352
Run → Failure	247
Pass → Success	188
Run → Success	145
Pass → Explosive	86
Run → Explosive	36

San Francisco 49ers · 2019

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	317
21 personnel → I_Form	202
11 personnel → Singleback	102
12 personnel → Singleback	91
12 personnel → I_Form	72
22 personnel → I_Form	64
21 personnel → Shotgun	57
21 personnel → Singleback	54
12 personnel → Shotgun	43
11 personnel → Empty	42
22 personnel → Singleback	29
21 personnel → Empty	16
22 personnel → Shotgun	12
12 personnel → Empty	7
13 personnel → Singleback	7
22 personnel → Jumbo	7
21 personnel → Other	6
11 personnel → I_Form	5
11 personnel → Other	4
22 personnel → Empty	4
Other → Jumbo	4
13 personnel → Shotgun	3
13 personnel → I_Form	2
21 personnel → Jumbo	2
Other → I_Form	2
11 personnel → Jumbo	1
12 personnel → Other	1
13 personnel → Jumbo	1
Other → Empty	1
Shotgun → Pass	311
I_Form → Run	259
Singleback → Run	166
Shotgun → Run	121
Singleback → Pass	117
I_Form → Pass	88
Empty → Pass	68
Jumbo → Run	14
Other → Run	8
Other → Pass	3
Empty → Run	2
Jumbo → Pass	1
Run → Failure	339
Pass → Failure	296
Pass → Success	178
Run → Success	155
Pass → Explosive	114
Run → Explosive	76