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Arizona Cardinals 2016 vs Buffalo Bills 2025

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.

ARI 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 Arizona Cardinals 2016 minus Buffalo Bills 2025

Metric	ARI	Shift	BUF
Plays	1,076	—	1,194
Pass rate	63.9%	+7.9%	56.0%
Shotgun rate	32.4%	−17.3%	49.7%
Explosive rate	13.4%	−1.9%	15.3%
Success rate	44.4%	−4.4%	48.8%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	54.6%	−7.7%	62.3%
12 personnel	23.8%	+12.3%	11.5%
21 personnel	1.7%	−7.2%	8.9%
13 personnel	4.4%	−0.9%	5.3%
22 personnel	0.0%	−11.0%	11.0%
10 personnel	12.4%	+12.4%	0.0%
20 personnel	2.4%	+2.4%	0.0%
Other personnel	0.6%	−0.5%	1.1%

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

Arizona Cardinals · 2016

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Singleback	253
11 personnel → Shotgun	218
12 personnel → Singleback	160
11 personnel → Empty	91
10 personnel → Shotgun	70
10 personnel → Empty	55
12 personnel → I_Form	33
13 personnel → Singleback	32
12 personnel → Shotgun	31
12 personnel → Empty	28
20 personnel → Shotgun	21
11 personnel → Pistol	10
13 personnel → Jumbo	10
11 personnel → I_Form	7
21 personnel → Shotgun	7
11 personnel → Unknown	5
21 personnel → Singleback	5
10 personnel → Unknown	4
11 personnel → Wildcat	4
21 personnel → Wildcat	4
10 personnel → Singleback	3
13 personnel → I_Form	3
20 personnel → Empty	3
12 personnel → Pistol	2
12 personnel → Wildcat	2
20 personnel → Wildcat	2
21 personnel → Empty	2
Other → Shotgun	2
Other → Singleback	2
Unknown → Unknown	2
10 personnel → I_Form	1
13 personnel → Empty	1
13 personnel → Unknown	1
Other → Jumbo	1
Other → Wildcat	1
Shotgun → Pass	310
Singleback → Run	284
Empty → Pass	179
Singleback → Pass	171
Shotgun → Run	39
I_Form → Run	35
I_Form → Pass	9
Jumbo → Run	9
Wildcat → Run	9
Unknown → Pass	7
Pistol → Pass	6
Pistol → Run	6
Unknown → Run	5
Wildcat → Pass	4
Jumbo → Pass	2
Empty → Run	1
Pass → Failure	371
Run → Failure	227
Pass → Success	219
Run → Success	115
Pass → Explosive	98
Run → Explosive	46

Buffalo Bills · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	510
11 personnel → Under Center	227
22 personnel → Under Center	123
12 personnel → Under Center	92
21 personnel → Under Center	83
13 personnel → Under Center	57
12 personnel → Shotgun	43
21 personnel → Shotgun	16
Other → Shotgun	11
22 personnel → Shotgun	8
21 personnel → Pistol	7
11 personnel → Pistol	6
13 personnel → Shotgun	6
Other → Under Center	2
11 personnel → Unknown	1
12 personnel → Pistol	1
12 personnel → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	488
Under Center → Run	413
Under Center → Pass	171
Shotgun → Run	106
Pistol → Pass	10
Pistol → Run	4
Unknown → Run	2
Pass → Failure	338
Run → Failure	273
Pass → Success	210
Run → Success	190
Pass → Explosive	121
Run → Explosive	62