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Carolina Panthers 2025 vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers 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

TB 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 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2016

Metric	CAR	Shift	TB
Plays	1,054	—	1,050
Pass rate	59.4%	−1.7%	61.0%
Shotgun rate	59.8%	+17.5%	42.3%
Explosive rate	11.6%	−0.3%	11.9%
Success rate	43.2%	−0.6%	43.8%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	66.6%	+6.0%	60.6%
12 personnel	21.0%	−3.0%	24.0%
21 personnel	1.8%	−5.6%	7.4%
13 personnel	8.3%	+5.9%	2.4%
22 personnel	1.0%	−1.7%	2.8%
20 personnel	0.0%	−2.1%	2.1%
Other personnel	1.3%	+0.6%	0.8%

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

Tampa Bay Buccaneers · 2016

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	394
11 personnel → Singleback	167
12 personnel → Singleback	139
12 personnel → I_Form	62
11 personnel → Empty	55
21 personnel → I_Form	47
12 personnel → Shotgun	27
21 personnel → Singleback	26
13 personnel → Singleback	19
11 personnel → I_Form	12
20 personnel → Shotgun	12
12 personnel → Jumbo	11
22 personnel → I_Form	10
22 personnel → Singleback	10
12 personnel → Empty	9
11 personnel → Unknown	6
22 personnel → Jumbo	6
13 personnel → I_Form	5
20 personnel → Singleback	5
Other → Shotgun	5
12 personnel → Unknown	4
20 personnel → I_Form	4
21 personnel → Shotgun	4
Other → Empty	3
11 personnel → Other	2
22 personnel → Shotgun	2
13 personnel → Empty	1
20 personnel → Empty	1
21 personnel → Empty	1
22 personnel → Empty	1
Shotgun → Pass	393
Singleback → Run	252
Singleback → Pass	114
I_Form → Run	85
Empty → Pass	71
I_Form → Pass	55
Shotgun → Run	51
Jumbo → Run	16
Unknown → Pass	6
Unknown → Run	4
Jumbo → Pass	1
Other → Pass	1
Other → Run	1
Pass → Failure	325
Run → Failure	265
Pass → Success	221
Run → Success	114
Pass → Explosive	95
Run → Explosive	30