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San Francisco 49ers 2025 vs Cincinnati Bengals 2017

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.

SF season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

CIN 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 San Francisco 49ers 2025 minus Cincinnati Bengals 2017

Metric	SF	Shift	CIN
Plays	1,175	—	908
Pass rate	59.4%	−2.3%	61.7%
Shotgun rate	52.4%	−7.4%	59.8%
Explosive rate	11.5%	−0.6%	12.1%
Success rate	47.7%	+9.3%	38.3%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	43.5%	−27.5%	71.0%
12 personnel	10.7%	−10.8%	21.5%
21 personnel	37.3%	+37.3%	0.0%
13 personnel	0.0%	−5.7%	5.7%
22 personnel	7.6%	+7.6%	0.0%
Other personnel	0.9%	−0.8%	1.8%

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

San Francisco 49ers · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	395
21 personnel → Under Center	260
21 personnel → Shotgun	164
11 personnel → Under Center	108
12 personnel → Under Center	88
22 personnel → Under Center	67
12 personnel → Shotgun	35
22 personnel → Shotgun	20
21 personnel → Pistol	14
Other → Under Center	9
11 personnel → Pistol	7
12 personnel → Pistol	3
22 personnel → Pistol	2
Other → Shotgun	2
11 personnel → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	511
Under Center → Run	354
Under Center → Pass	178
Shotgun → Run	105
Pistol → Run	17
Pistol → Pass	9
Unknown → Run	1
Pass → Failure	337
Run → Failure	278
Pass → Success	263
Run → Success	162
Pass → Explosive	98
Run → Explosive	37

Cincinnati Bengals · 2017

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	484
11 personnel → Singleback	79
12 personnel → Singleback	78
12 personnel → I_Form	63
12 personnel → Shotgun	45
11 personnel → I_Form	34
11 personnel → Empty	32
13 personnel → I_Form	26
13 personnel → Singleback	14
Other → Shotgun	13
13 personnel → Jumbo	10
11 personnel → Unknown	8
11 personnel → Pistol	7
12 personnel → Pistol	5
12 personnel → Empty	4
Other → Empty	2
11 personnel → Other	1
13 personnel → Shotgun	1
13 personnel → Unknown	1
Other → Pistol	1
Shotgun → Pass	401
Shotgun → Run	142
Singleback → Run	103
I_Form → Run	86
Singleback → Pass	68
Empty → Pass	37
I_Form → Pass	37
Pistol → Run	7
Jumbo → Run	6
Pistol → Pass	6
Unknown → Pass	6
Jumbo → Pass	4
Unknown → Run	3
Empty → Run	1
Other → Pass	1
Pass → Failure	333
Run → Failure	227
Pass → Success	153
Run → Success	85
Pass → Explosive	74
Run → Explosive	36