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Detroit Lions 2025 vs New Orleans Saints 2020

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

NO 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 New Orleans Saints 2020

Metric	DET	Shift	NO
Plays	1,050	—	1,159
Pass rate	59.4%	+3.9%	55.6%
Shotgun rate	51.4%	+8.4%	43.1%
Explosive rate	14.6%	+0.9%	13.7%
Success rate	45.2%	−2.1%	47.4%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	62.2%	+6.7%	55.5%
12 personnel	25.2%	+9.8%	15.4%
21 personnel	3.3%	−10.1%	13.5%
13 personnel	5.0%	+2.6%	2.3%
22 personnel	0.0%	−5.6%	5.6%
10 personnel	1.9%	−0.9%	2.8%
20 personnel	2.1%	−0.7%	2.8%
Other personnel	0.2%	−1.9%	2.1%

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

New Orleans Saints · 2020

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	347
11 personnel → Singleback	213
12 personnel → Singleback	112
11 personnel → Empty	59
21 personnel → I_Form	50
21 personnel → Shotgun	44
12 personnel → Shotgun	43
22 personnel → I_Form	29
21 personnel → Singleback	28
21 personnel → Empty	23
20 personnel → Shotgun	21
10 personnel → Shotgun	14
10 personnel → Singleback	13
13 personnel → Singleback	13
13 personnel → Shotgun	11
Other → Shotgun	11
22 personnel → Jumbo	10
11 personnel → I_Form	9
12 personnel → Jumbo	9
11 personnel → Pistol	8
20 personnel → I_Form	8
22 personnel → Shotgun	8
Other → Empty	8
12 personnel → Empty	6
12 personnel → I_Form	6
22 personnel → Empty	6
22 personnel → Singleback	6
21 personnel → Pistol	5
10 personnel → Empty	4
21 personnel → Jumbo	4
22 personnel → Pistol	4
11 personnel → Jumbo	3
Other → I_Form	3
10 personnel → Pistol	2
11 personnel → Other	2
11 personnel → Unknown	2
21 personnel → Unknown	2
12 personnel → Other	1
12 personnel → Pistol	1
12 personnel → Unknown	1
13 personnel → Empty	1
13 personnel → Jumbo	1
13 personnel → Pistol	1
20 personnel → Empty	1
20 personnel → Other	1
20 personnel → Pistol	1
22 personnel → Other	1
22 personnel → Unknown	1
Other → Other	1
Other → Singleback	1
Shotgun → Pass	398
Singleback → Run	272
Singleback → Pass	114
Shotgun → Run	101
Empty → Pass	74
I_Form → Run	72
Empty → Run	34
I_Form → Pass	33
Jumbo → Run	23
Pistol → Pass	16
Pistol → Run	6
Other → Run	5
Jumbo → Pass	4
Unknown → Pass	4
Unknown → Run	2
Other → Pass	1
Pass → Failure	332
Run → Failure	278
Pass → Success	211
Run → Success	179
Pass → Explosive	101
Run → Explosive	58