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Carolina Panthers 2025 vs New Orleans Saints 2018

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

NO 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 New Orleans Saints 2018

Metric	CAR	Shift	NO
Plays	1,054	—	1,116
Pass rate	59.4%	+2.9%	56.5%
Shotgun rate	59.8%	+18.9%	40.9%
Explosive rate	11.6%	−2.3%	13.9%
Success rate	43.2%	−5.4%	48.6%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	66.6%	+9.3%	57.3%
12 personnel	21.0%	+7.0%	14.0%
21 personnel	1.8%	−12.4%	14.2%
13 personnel	8.3%	+6.1%	2.2%
22 personnel	1.0%	−5.5%	6.5%
10 personnel	0.0%	−2.8%	2.8%
20 personnel	0.0%	−2.0%	2.0%
Other personnel	1.3%	+0.6%	0.7%

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

New Orleans Saints · 2018

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	340
11 personnel → Singleback	210
12 personnel → Singleback	95
11 personnel → Empty	72
21 personnel → I_Form	66
22 personnel → I_Form	47
21 personnel → Singleback	41
12 personnel → Shotgun	37
21 personnel → Shotgun	35
10 personnel → Shotgun	22
12 personnel → Empty	15
13 personnel → Singleback	15
22 personnel → Jumbo	15
21 personnel → Empty	14
13 personnel → Shotgun	9
20 personnel → Shotgun	9
11 personnel → I_Form	7
20 personnel → I_Form	6
10 personnel → Singleback	5
11 personnel → Unknown	5
12 personnel → I_Form	5
10 personnel → Empty	4
20 personnel → Empty	4
22 personnel → Shotgun	4
11 personnel → Jumbo	3
11 personnel → Other	3
12 personnel → Jumbo	3
22 personnel → Singleback	3
Other → I_Form	3
Other → Jumbo	3
Unknown → Unknown	3
20 personnel → Singleback	2
22 personnel → Other	2
12 personnel → Other	1
20 personnel → Unknown	1
21 personnel → Jumbo	1
21 personnel → Other	1
21 personnel → Unknown	1
22 personnel → Empty	1
22 personnel → Unknown	1
Other → Other	1
Other → Singleback	1
Shotgun → Pass	354
Singleback → Run	253
Singleback → Pass	119
Empty → Pass	108
Shotgun → Run	102
I_Form → Run	99
I_Form → Pass	35
Jumbo → Run	21
Unknown → Pass	6
Other → Pass	5
Unknown → Run	5
Jumbo → Pass	4
Other → Run	3
Empty → Run	2
Pass → Failure	293
Run → Failure	281
Pass → Success	233
Run → Success	154
Pass → Explosive	105
Run → Explosive	50