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Detroit Lions 2025 vs Buffalo Bills 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.

DET season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

BUF 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 Detroit Lions 2025 minus Buffalo Bills 2016

Metric	DET	Shift	BUF
Plays	1,050	—	1,004
Pass rate	59.4%	+2.8%	56.7%
Shotgun rate	51.4%	−3.4%	54.8%
Explosive rate	14.6%	+1.2%	13.3%
Success rate	45.2%	−0.1%	45.3%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	62.2%	+14.9%	47.3%
12 personnel	25.2%	+8.6%	16.6%
21 personnel	3.3%	−25.2%	28.5%
13 personnel	5.0%	+5.0%	0.0%
22 personnel	0.0%	−5.2%	5.2%
10 personnel	1.9%	+1.9%	0.0%
20 personnel	2.1%	+2.1%	0.0%
Other personnel	0.2%	−2.1%	2.3%

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

Detroit Lions · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	443
12 personnel → Under Center	213
11 personnel → Under Center	209
12 personnel → Shotgun	51
13 personnel → Under Center	48
20 personnel → Shotgun	21
21 personnel → Under Center	17
10 personnel → Under Center	16
21 personnel → Shotgun	16
10 personnel → Shotgun	4
13 personnel → Shotgun	3
21 personnel → Other	2
11 personnel → Other	1
12 personnel → Unknown	1
13 personnel → Other	1
20 personnel → Other	1
Other → Shotgun	1
Other → Under Center	1
Unknown → Shotgun	1
Shotgun → Pass	455
Under Center → Run	337
Under Center → Pass	167
Shotgun → Run	85
Other → Run	3
Other → Pass	2
Unknown → Run	1
Pass → Failure	322
Run → Failure	253
Pass → Success	191
Run → Success	131
Pass → Explosive	111
Run → Explosive	42

Buffalo Bills · 2016

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	385
21 personnel → Pistol	134
12 personnel → Shotgun	97
21 personnel → I_Form	72
21 personnel → Shotgun	55
11 personnel → Empty	42
12 personnel → Pistol	33
12 personnel → Singleback	26
22 personnel → I_Form	26
11 personnel → Singleback	23
11 personnel → Pistol	21
21 personnel → Wildcat	18
22 personnel → Jumbo	11
Other → Shotgun	8
Other → Pistol	7
12 personnel → Empty	6
21 personnel → Singleback	5
22 personnel → Pistol	5
22 personnel → Shotgun	5
22 personnel → Wildcat	4
Other → Empty	4
Other → Wildcat	4
12 personnel → I_Form	3
11 personnel → Unknown	2
21 personnel → Unknown	2
11 personnel → I_Form	1
11 personnel → Wildcat	1
12 personnel → Unknown	1
12 personnel → Wildcat	1
22 personnel → Empty	1
Unknown → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	410
Pistol → Run	159
Shotgun → Run	140
I_Form → Run	72
Empty → Pass	52
Pistol → Pass	41
Singleback → Pass	33
I_Form → Pass	30
Wildcat → Run	28
Singleback → Run	21
Jumbo → Run	10
Unknown → Run	4
Unknown → Pass	2
Empty → Run	1
Jumbo → Pass	1
Pass → Failure	316
Run → Failure	233
Pass → Success	184
Run → Success	137
Pass → Explosive	69
Run → Explosive	65