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Pittsburgh Steelers 2025 vs Arizona Cardinals 2021

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.

PIT season2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

ARI 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 Pittsburgh Steelers 2025 minus Arizona Cardinals 2021

Metric	PIT	Shift	ARI
Plays	1,030	—	1,163
Pass rate	61.2%	+1.0%	60.2%
Shotgun rate	65.6%	−8.3%	73.9%
Explosive rate	11.8%	−1.0%	12.8%
Success rate	43.1%	−3.2%	46.3%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	50.4%	−6.3%	56.7%
12 personnel	32.4%	+10.9%	21.5%
21 personnel	2.3%	+0.2%	2.1%
13 personnel	12.8%	+10.1%	2.8%
22 personnel	0.0%	−1.0%	1.0%
10 personnel	0.0%	−13.2%	13.2%
20 personnel	0.0%	−1.5%	1.5%
Other personnel	1.7%	+0.8%	0.9%

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

Pittsburgh Steelers · 2025

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	391
12 personnel → Shotgun	192
12 personnel → Under Center	136
11 personnel → Under Center	124
13 personnel → Under Center	67
13 personnel → Shotgun	61
21 personnel → Shotgun	22
Other → Shotgun	10
12 personnel → Pistol	6
Other → Under Center	6
11 personnel → Pistol	4
13 personnel → Pistol	4
Unknown → Under Center	3
Other → Pistol	2
21 personnel → Pistol	1
21 personnel → Under Center	1
Shotgun → Pass	524
Under Center → Run	237
Shotgun → Run	152
Under Center → Pass	100
Pistol → Run	11
Pistol → Pass	6
Pass → Failure	363
Run → Failure	223
Pass → Success	189
Run → Success	133
Pass → Explosive	78
Run → Explosive	44

Arizona Cardinals · 2021

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	544
12 personnel → Shotgun	152
10 personnel → Shotgun	117
11 personnel → Empty	73
12 personnel → Singleback	40
10 personnel → Empty	33
12 personnel → Pistol	29
11 personnel → Pistol	22
21 personnel → Shotgun	18
12 personnel → I_Form	16
20 personnel → Shotgun	14
11 personnel → Singleback	13
13 personnel → Singleback	13
12 personnel → Empty	10
Other → Empty	9
13 personnel → Shotgun	8
13 personnel → I_Form	6
22 personnel → Shotgun	5
20 personnel → Pistol	4
22 personnel → Wildcat	4
10 personnel → Pistol	3
12 personnel → Wildcat	3
21 personnel → Pistol	3
11 personnel → I_Form	2
11 personnel → Unknown	2
11 personnel → Wildcat	2
13 personnel → Other	2
21 personnel → I_Form	2
21 personnel → Wildcat	2
22 personnel → Pistol	2
Other → Shotgun	2
Unknown → Unknown	2
10 personnel → Singleback	1
11 personnel → Other	1
13 personnel → Empty	1
13 personnel → Pistol	1
13 personnel → Wildcat	1
22 personnel → I_Form	1
Shotgun → Pass	523
Shotgun → Run	337
Empty → Pass	120
Singleback → Run	46
Pistol → Run	38
Pistol → Pass	26
Singleback → Pass	21
I_Form → Run	20
Wildcat → Run	12
I_Form → Pass	7
Empty → Run	6
Other → Run	3
Unknown → Pass	3
Unknown → Run	1
Pass → Failure	355
Run → Failure	269
Pass → Success	244
Run → Success	146
Pass → Explosive	101
Run → Explosive	48