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Atlanta Falcons 2025 vs Detroit Lions 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.

ATL 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 Atlanta Falcons 2025 minus Detroit Lions 2016

Metric	ATL	Shift	DET
Plays	1,032	—	1,020
Pass rate	56.5%	−11.4%	67.8%
Shotgun rate	47.6%	−15.1%	62.6%
Explosive rate	13.0%	+1.3%	11.7%
Success rate	43.7%	−0.3%	44.0%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	45.5%	−30.3%	75.9%
12 personnel	37.7%	+27.3%	10.4%
21 personnel	9.3%	+4.4%	4.9%
13 personnel	7.0%	+7.0%	0.0%
22 personnel	0.0%	−1.4%	1.4%
10 personnel	0.0%	−4.0%	4.0%
20 personnel	0.0%	−1.8%	1.8%
Other personnel	0.5%	−1.1%	1.6%

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

Atlanta Falcons · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	327
12 personnel → Pistol	165
11 personnel → Pistol	114
12 personnel → Under Center	113
12 personnel → Shotgun	111
13 personnel → Under Center	50
21 personnel → Shotgun	49
21 personnel → Pistol	42
11 personnel → Under Center	28
13 personnel → Pistol	19
21 personnel → Under Center	5
13 personnel → Shotgun	3
Other → Pistol	2
Other → Under Center	2
11 personnel → Unknown	1
Other → Shotgun	1
Shotgun → Pass	448
Pistol → Run	268
Under Center → Run	137
Pistol → Pass	74
Under Center → Pass	61
Shotgun → Run	43
Unknown → Run	1
Pass → Failure	319
Run → Failure	262
Pass → Success	181
Run → Success	136
Pass → Explosive	83
Run → Explosive	51

Detroit Lions · 2016

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	577
11 personnel → Pistol	107
11 personnel → Singleback	46
12 personnel → Pistol	43
11 personnel → Empty	40
12 personnel → Singleback	38
10 personnel → Shotgun	30
21 personnel → I_Form	30
12 personnel → Shotgun	19
20 personnel → I_Form	12
Other → Empty	9
21 personnel → Pistol	7
21 personnel → Shotgun	7
21 personnel → Singleback	6
22 personnel → Other	6
10 personnel → Singleback	4
22 personnel → I_Form	4
10 personnel → Empty	3
10 personnel → Pistol	3
11 personnel → Unknown	3
20 personnel → Shotgun	3
Other → Pistol	3
12 personnel → Empty	2
12 personnel → I_Form	2
20 personnel → Pistol	2
22 personnel → Singleback	2
Other → Shotgun	2
10 personnel → Other	1
11 personnel → I_Form	1
12 personnel → Other	1
12 personnel → Unknown	1
20 personnel → Empty	1
22 personnel → Empty	1
22 personnel → Shotgun	1
Other → I_Form	1
Other → Other	1
Unknown → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	536
Pistol → Run	109
Shotgun → Run	103
Singleback → Run	62
Pistol → Pass	56
Empty → Pass	55
I_Form → Run	42
Singleback → Pass	34
Other → Run	9
I_Form → Pass	8
Unknown → Pass	3
Unknown → Run	2
Empty → Run	1
Pass → Failure	356
Pass → Success	245
Run → Failure	215
Pass → Explosive	91
Run → Success	85
Run → Explosive	28