TEAM FINGERPRINT · COMPARE
Houston Texans 2025 vs Buffalo Bills 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 Houston Texans 2025 minus Buffalo Bills 2016
| Metric | HOU | Shift | BUF |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plays | 1,210 | — | 1,004 |
| Pass rate | 60.4% | +3.7% | 56.7% |
| Shotgun rate | 61.7% | +7.0% | 54.8% |
| Explosive rate | 10.6% | −2.8% | 13.3% |
| Success rate | 41.3% | −4.0% | 45.3% |
| Personnel groupings | |||
| 11 personnel | 72.0% | +24.7% | 47.3% |
| 12 personnel | 14.0% | −2.6% | 16.6% |
| 21 personnel | 6.0% | −22.5% | 28.5% |
| 22 personnel | 0.0% | −5.2% | 5.2% |
| 10 personnel | 3.6% | +3.6% | 0.0% |
| 20 personnel | 2.5% | +2.5% | 0.0% |
| Other personnel | 1.9% | −0.4% | 2.3% |
Read the ledger, then the flows below: the table is the precise shift; the alluvials are the shape.
Houston Texans · 2025
| 11 personnel → Shotgun | 679 |
|---|---|
| 11 personnel → Under Center | 191 |
| 12 personnel → Under Center | 134 |
| 21 personnel → Under Center | 66 |
| 12 personnel → Shotgun | 35 |
| 20 personnel → Under Center | 26 |
| 10 personnel → Under Center | 25 |
| 10 personnel → Shotgun | 18 |
| Other → Under Center | 18 |
| 21 personnel → Shotgun | 6 |
| Other → Shotgun | 5 |
| 20 personnel → Shotgun | 4 |
| 11 personnel → Unknown | 1 |
| 12 personnel → Unknown | 1 |
| Unknown → Under Center | 1 |
| Shotgun → Pass | 590 |
| Under Center → Run | 321 |
| Shotgun → Run | 157 |
| Under Center → Pass | 140 |
| Unknown → Pass | 1 |
| Unknown → Run | 1 |
| Pass → Failure | 410 |
| Run → Failure | 300 |
| Pass → Success | 228 |
| Run → Success | 144 |
| Pass → Explosive | 93 |
| Run → Explosive | 35 |
Buffalo Bills · 2016
| 11 personnel → Shotgun | 385 |
|---|---|
| 21 personnel → Pistol | 134 |
| 12 personnel → Shotgun | 97 |
| 21 personnel → I_Form | 72 |
| 21 personnel → Shotgun | 55 |
| 11 personnel → Empty | 42 |
| 12 personnel → Pistol | 33 |
| 12 personnel → Singleback | 26 |
| 22 personnel → I_Form | 26 |
| 11 personnel → Singleback | 23 |
| 11 personnel → Pistol | 21 |
| 21 personnel → Wildcat | 18 |
| 22 personnel → Jumbo | 11 |
| Other → Shotgun | 8 |
| Other → Pistol | 7 |
| 12 personnel → Empty | 6 |
| 21 personnel → Singleback | 5 |
| 22 personnel → Pistol | 5 |
| 22 personnel → Shotgun | 5 |
| 22 personnel → Wildcat | 4 |
| Other → Empty | 4 |
| Other → Wildcat | 4 |
| 12 personnel → I_Form | 3 |
| 11 personnel → Unknown | 2 |
| 21 personnel → Unknown | 2 |
| 11 personnel → I_Form | 1 |
| 11 personnel → Wildcat | 1 |
| 12 personnel → Unknown | 1 |
| 12 personnel → Wildcat | 1 |
| 22 personnel → Empty | 1 |
| Unknown → Unknown | 1 |
| Shotgun → Pass | 410 |
| Pistol → Run | 159 |
| Shotgun → Run | 140 |
| I_Form → Run | 72 |
| Empty → Pass | 52 |
| Pistol → Pass | 41 |
| Singleback → Pass | 33 |
| I_Form → Pass | 30 |
| Wildcat → Run | 28 |
| Singleback → Run | 21 |
| Jumbo → Run | 10 |
| Unknown → Run | 4 |
| Unknown → Pass | 2 |
| Empty → Run | 1 |
| Jumbo → Pass | 1 |
| Pass → Failure | 316 |
| Run → Failure | 233 |
| Pass → Success | 184 |
| Run → Success | 137 |
| Pass → Explosive | 69 |
| Run → Explosive | 65 |