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Carolina Panthers 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.

CAR 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 Carolina Panthers 2025 minus Detroit Lions 2016

Metric	CAR	Shift	DET
Plays	1,054	—	1,020
Pass rate	59.4%	−8.5%	67.8%
Shotgun rate	59.8%	−2.9%	62.6%
Explosive rate	11.6%	−0.1%	11.7%
Success rate	43.2%	−0.9%	44.0%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	66.6%	−9.3%	75.9%
12 personnel	21.0%	+10.6%	10.4%
21 personnel	1.8%	−3.1%	4.9%
13 personnel	8.3%	+8.3%	0.0%
22 personnel	1.0%	−0.3%	1.4%
10 personnel	0.0%	−4.0%	4.0%
20 personnel	0.0%	−1.8%	1.8%
Other personnel	1.3%	−0.2%	1.6%

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

Carolina Panthers · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	552
12 personnel → Under Center	150
11 personnel → Under Center	104
13 personnel → Under Center	79
11 personnel → Pistol	45
12 personnel → Shotgun	45
12 personnel → Pistol	26
21 personnel → Shotgun	15
Other → Shotgun	13
22 personnel → Under Center	10
13 personnel → Pistol	4
13 personnel → Shotgun	4
21 personnel → Pistol	2
21 personnel → Under Center	2
11 personnel → Unknown	1
22 personnel → Shotgun	1
Other → Pistol	1
Shotgun → Pass	507
Under Center → Run	256
Shotgun → Run	123
Under Center → Pass	89
Pistol → Run	49
Pistol → Pass	29
Unknown → Pass	1
Pass → Failure	352
Run → Failure	247
Pass → Success	188
Run → Success	145
Pass → Explosive	86
Run → Explosive	36

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