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Atlanta Falcons 2025 vs San Francisco 49ers 2021

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

SF 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 San Francisco 49ers 2021

Metric	ATL	Shift	SF
Plays	1,032	—	1,193
Pass rate	56.5%	+2.8%	53.7%
Shotgun rate	47.6%	−0.1%	47.7%
Explosive rate	13.0%	−1.9%	14.8%
Success rate	43.7%	−1.1%	44.8%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	45.5%	−2.6%	48.1%
12 personnel	37.7%	+28.0%	9.7%
21 personnel	9.3%	−25.0%	34.3%
13 personnel	7.0%	+7.0%	0.0%
22 personnel	0.0%	−7.0%	7.0%
Other personnel	0.5%	−0.4%	0.9%

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

San Francisco 49ers · 2021

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	393
21 personnel → Shotgun	142
21 personnel → I_Form	134
21 personnel → Singleback	95
11 personnel → Empty	77
11 personnel → Singleback	75
12 personnel → Singleback	71
22 personnel → I_Form	53
12 personnel → Shotgun	27
21 personnel → Empty	22
11 personnel → I_Form	17
22 personnel → Singleback	14
21 personnel → Pistol	13
12 personnel → Empty	11
11 personnel → Pistol	7
22 personnel → Empty	5
22 personnel → Shotgun	5
Other → Other	5
22 personnel → Other	4
11 personnel → Unknown	3
12 personnel → I_Form	3
12 personnel → Pistol	3
11 personnel → Other	2
21 personnel → Unknown	2
Other → Empty	2
Other → Shotgun	2
12 personnel → Unknown	1
21 personnel → Other	1
22 personnel → Pistol	1
22 personnel → Unknown	1
Other → I_Form	1
Other → Singleback	1
Shotgun → Pass	397
Singleback → Run	174
I_Form → Run	173
Shotgun → Run	172
Empty → Pass	109
Singleback → Pass	82
I_Form → Pass	35
Pistol → Run	14
Other → Run	10
Pistol → Pass	10
Empty → Run	8
Unknown → Pass	6
Other → Pass	2
Unknown → Run	1
Pass → Failure	339
Run → Failure	320
Pass → Success	183
Run → Success	174
Pass → Explosive	119
Run → Explosive	58