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Buffalo Bills 2025 vs Atlanta Falcons 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.

BUF season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

ATL 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 Buffalo Bills 2025 minus Atlanta Falcons 2021

Metric	BUF	Shift	ATL
Plays	1,194	—	995
Pass rate	56.0%	−7.2%	63.2%
Shotgun rate	49.7%	+6.5%	43.2%
Explosive rate	15.3%	+2.3%	13.1%
Success rate	48.8%	+8.4%	40.4%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	62.3%	+30.2%	32.2%
12 personnel	11.5%	−12.9%	24.4%
21 personnel	8.9%	−12.3%	21.2%
13 personnel	5.3%	−1.2%	6.4%
22 personnel	11.0%	−3.0%	14.0%
23 personnel	0.0%	−1.0%	1.0%
Other personnel	1.1%	+0.4%	0.7%

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

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

Atlanta Falcons · 2021

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	220
12 personnel → Singleback	108
12 personnel → Shotgun	107
21 personnel → I_Form	107
11 personnel → Singleback	64
21 personnel → Shotgun	60
13 personnel → Singleback	48
22 personnel → I_Form	48
22 personnel → Singleback	38
22 personnel → Shotgun	27
11 personnel → Empty	26
21 personnel → Singleback	26
12 personnel → Empty	17
22 personnel → Empty	13
21 personnel → Empty	12
13 personnel → Shotgun	9
22 personnel → Other	8
11 personnel → Pistol	7
12 personnel → I_Form	7
21 personnel → Pistol	5
13 personnel → Empty	4
23 personnel → Shotgun	4
11 personnel → Unknown	3
13 personnel → I_Form	3
22 personnel → Pistol	3
23 personnel → Singleback	3
Other → Shotgun	3
12 personnel → Pistol	2
12 personnel → Unknown	2
22 personnel → Unknown	2
23 personnel → Empty	2
Other → Empty	2
Other → Singleback	2
21 personnel → Unknown	1
23 personnel → I_Form	1
Unknown → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	379
Singleback → Run	185
I_Form → Run	118
Singleback → Pass	104
Empty → Pass	76
Shotgun → Run	51
I_Form → Pass	48
Pistol → Pass	13
Unknown → Pass	7
Other → Run	6
Pistol → Run	4
Other → Pass	2
Unknown → Run	2
Pass → Failure	343
Run → Failure	250
Pass → Success	197
Pass → Explosive	89
Run → Success	75
Run → Explosive	41