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New England Patriots 2025 vs Detroit Lions 2018

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.

NE season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

DET 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 New England Patriots 2025 minus Detroit Lions 2018

Metric	NE	Shift	DET
Plays	1,264	—	1,009
Pass rate	60.8%	−1.5%	62.2%
Shotgun rate	56.0%	−4.4%	60.5%
Explosive rate	14.7%	+2.1%	12.6%
Success rate	46.1%	+5.6%	40.5%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	52.8%	−6.7%	59.6%
12 personnel	19.4%	+4.7%	14.7%
21 personnel	17.5%	+6.2%	11.3%
13 personnel	0.0%	−1.5%	1.5%
22 personnel	6.5%	+4.2%	2.3%
10 personnel	0.0%	−4.7%	4.7%
20 personnel	1.8%	−3.1%	5.0%
Other personnel	0.5%	−0.2%	0.7%

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

New England Patriots · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	500
11 personnel → Under Center	165
12 personnel → Under Center	153
21 personnel → Under Center	131
12 personnel → Shotgun	92
21 personnel → Shotgun	89
22 personnel → Under Center	64
20 personnel → Under Center	21
22 personnel → Shotgun	18
Unknown → Under Center	16
Other → Shotgun	6
11 personnel → Unknown	2
20 personnel → Shotgun	2
11 personnel → Other	1
21 personnel → Other	1
Unknown → Other	1
Unknown → Shotgun	1
Unknown → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	603
Under Center → Run	388
Under Center → Pass	162
Shotgun → Run	105
Other → Pass	2
Unknown → Run	2
Other → Run	1
Unknown → Pass	1
Pass → Failure	370
Run → Failure	311
Pass → Success	257
Pass → Explosive	141
Run → Success	140
Run → Explosive	45

Detroit Lions · 2018

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	445
11 personnel → Singleback	117
12 personnel → Singleback	95
21 personnel → I_Form	50
10 personnel → Shotgun	45
21 personnel → Shotgun	44
20 personnel → Shotgun	40
12 personnel → Shotgun	31
11 personnel → Empty	22
21 personnel → Singleback	13
22 personnel → I_Form	13
13 personnel → Singleback	12
11 personnel → I_Form	10
12 personnel → Empty	9
20 personnel → I_Form	7
21 personnel → Empty	7
22 personnel → Other	7
12 personnel → I_Form	6
12 personnel → Other	5
11 personnel → Unknown	4
11 personnel → Other	3
Other → Shotgun	3
12 personnel → Unknown	2
20 personnel → Empty	2
22 personnel → Singleback	2
Other → Empty	2
Unknown → Singleback	2
Unknown → Unknown	2
10 personnel → Empty	1
10 personnel → Unknown	1
13 personnel → I_Form	1
13 personnel → Other	1
13 personnel → Shotgun	1
20 personnel → Other	1
22 personnel → Shotgun	1
Other → Other	1
Other → Singleback	1
Shotgun → Pass	485
Singleback → Run	170
Shotgun → Run	125
Singleback → Pass	72
I_Form → Run	69
Empty → Pass	43
I_Form → Pass	18
Other → Run	15
Unknown → Pass	7
Other → Pass	3
Unknown → Run	2
Pass → Failure	357
Run → Failure	243
Pass → Success	180
Run → Success	102
Pass → Explosive	91
Run → Explosive	36