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Pittsburgh Steelers 2025 vs New England Patriots 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.

PIT season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

NE 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 Pittsburgh Steelers 2025 minus New England Patriots 2016

Metric	PIT	Shift	NE
Plays	1,030	—	1,260
Pass rate	61.2%	+2.0%	59.2%
Shotgun rate	65.6%	+23.6%	42.0%
Explosive rate	11.8%	−1.3%	13.2%
Success rate	43.1%	−1.1%	44.2%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	50.4%	+1.9%	48.5%
12 personnel	32.4%	+17.1%	15.3%
21 personnel	2.3%	−18.8%	21.1%
13 personnel	12.8%	+12.8%	0.0%
22 personnel	0.0%	−6.3%	6.3%
10 personnel	0.0%	−3.0%	3.0%
20 personnel	0.0%	−4.5%	4.5%
Other personnel	1.7%	+0.6%	1.1%

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

Pittsburgh Steelers · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	391
12 personnel → Shotgun	192
12 personnel → Under Center	136
11 personnel → Under Center	124
13 personnel → Under Center	67
13 personnel → Shotgun	61
21 personnel → Shotgun	22
Other → Shotgun	10
12 personnel → Pistol	6
Other → Under Center	6
11 personnel → Pistol	4
13 personnel → Pistol	4
Unknown → Under Center	3
Other → Pistol	2
21 personnel → Pistol	1
21 personnel → Under Center	1
Shotgun → Pass	524
Under Center → Run	237
Shotgun → Run	152
Under Center → Pass	100
Pistol → Run	11
Pistol → Pass	6
Pass → Failure	363
Run → Failure	223
Pass → Success	189
Run → Success	133
Pass → Explosive	78
Run → Explosive	44

New England Patriots · 2016

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	377
21 personnel → I_Form	182
11 personnel → Singleback	134
12 personnel → Singleback	98
12 personnel → Shotgun	71
11 personnel → Empty	69
22 personnel → I_Form	43
20 personnel → Shotgun	32
21 personnel → Shotgun	29
21 personnel → Empty	26
22 personnel → Jumbo	22
11 personnel → Pistol	21
10 personnel → Shotgun	20
21 personnel → Singleback	20
12 personnel → Empty	18
20 personnel → I_Form	15
22 personnel → Singleback	14
10 personnel → Empty	13
Other → Jumbo	11
20 personnel → Empty	7
11 personnel → Unknown	5
21 personnel → Unknown	5
10 personnel → Singleback	4
11 personnel → I_Form	3
12 personnel → Unknown	3
20 personnel → Singleback	3
21 personnel → Jumbo	3
Other → Empty	3
11 personnel → Other	2
12 personnel → Pistol	2
10 personnel → Unknown	1
12 personnel → I_Form	1
21 personnel → Pistol	1
22 personnel → Unknown	1
Unknown → Empty	1
Shotgun → Pass	420
I_Form → Run	197
Singleback → Run	152
Empty → Pass	136
Singleback → Pass	121
Shotgun → Run	109
I_Form → Pass	47
Jumbo → Run	33
Pistol → Pass	12
Pistol → Run	12
Unknown → Run	8
Unknown → Pass	7
Jumbo → Pass	3
Other → Run	2
Empty → Run	1
Pass → Failure	384
Run → Failure	319
Pass → Success	238
Run → Success	153
Pass → Explosive	124
Run → Explosive	42