TEAM FINGERPRINT · COMPARE
Buffalo Bills 2025 vs Cleveland Browns 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.
Play-calling ledger · the shift is Buffalo Bills 2025 minus Cleveland Browns 2016
| Metric | BUF | Shift | CLE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plays | 1,194 | — | 979 |
| Pass rate | 56.0% | −11.1% | 67.1% |
| Shotgun rate | 49.7% | −11.1% | 60.9% |
| Explosive rate | 15.3% | +1.6% | 13.7% |
| Success rate | 48.8% | +10.8% | 38.0% |
| Personnel groupings | |||
| 11 personnel | 62.3% | −1.2% | 63.5% |
| 12 personnel | 11.5% | −4.5% | 15.9% |
| 21 personnel | 8.9% | −2.7% | 11.5% |
| 13 personnel | 5.3% | +1.8% | 3.5% |
| 22 personnel | 11.0% | +6.1% | 4.9% |
| Other personnel | 1.1% | +0.8% | 0.3% |
Read the ledger, then the flows below: the table is the precise shift; the alluvials are the shape.
Buffalo Bills · 2025
| 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 |
Cleveland Browns · 2016
| 11 personnel → Shotgun | 507 |
|---|---|
| 21 personnel → I_Form | 81 |
| 12 personnel → Singleback | 68 |
| 12 personnel → Shotgun | 64 |
| 11 personnel → Singleback | 40 |
| 11 personnel → Empty | 38 |
| 22 personnel → I_Form | 26 |
| 13 personnel → Singleback | 22 |
| 11 personnel → Wildcat | 16 |
| 21 personnel → Shotgun | 15 |
| 11 personnel → Unknown | 9 |
| 22 personnel → Jumbo | 9 |
| 11 personnel → Pistol | 8 |
| 13 personnel → Shotgun | 8 |
| 12 personnel → Pistol | 7 |
| 12 personnel → Empty | 6 |
| 21 personnel → Pistol | 6 |
| 22 personnel → Singleback | 6 |
| 12 personnel → I_Form | 5 |
| 22 personnel → Wildcat | 5 |
| 11 personnel → I_Form | 4 |
| 21 personnel → Singleback | 4 |
| 21 personnel → Wildcat | 4 |
| 12 personnel → Unknown | 3 |
| 12 personnel → Wildcat | 2 |
| 13 personnel → Empty | 2 |
| 21 personnel → Empty | 2 |
| Other → I_Form | 2 |
| Unknown → Unknown | 2 |
| 12 personnel → Jumbo | 1 |
| 13 personnel → I_Form | 1 |
| 13 personnel → Unknown | 1 |
| 21 personnel → Unknown | 1 |
| 22 personnel → Empty | 1 |
| 22 personnel → Shotgun | 1 |
| Other → Shotgun | 1 |
| Unknown → Wildcat | 1 |
| Shotgun → Pass | 457 |
| Shotgun → Run | 139 |
| Singleback → Run | 80 |
| I_Form → Run | 69 |
| Singleback → Pass | 60 |
| I_Form → Pass | 50 |
| Empty → Pass | 49 |
| Pistol → Pass | 16 |
| Wildcat → Run | 15 |
| Wildcat → Pass | 13 |
| Unknown → Pass | 9 |
| Jumbo → Run | 7 |
| Unknown → Run | 7 |
| Pistol → Run | 5 |
| Jumbo → Pass | 3 |
| Pass → Failure | 406 |
| Run → Failure | 201 |
| Pass → Success | 165 |
| Pass → Explosive | 86 |
| Run → Success | 73 |
| Run → Explosive | 48 |