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Pittsburgh Steelers 2025 vs Buffalo Bills 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

BUF 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 Buffalo Bills 2021

Metric	PIT	Shift	BUF
Plays	1,030	—	1,233
Pass rate	61.2%	−3.5%	64.6%
Shotgun rate	65.6%	+0.7%	64.9%
Explosive rate	11.8%	−2.0%	13.9%
Success rate	43.1%	−5.6%	48.7%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel	50.4%	−21.9%	72.3%
12 personnel	32.4%	+25.9%	6.6%
21 personnel	2.3%	−8.3%	10.6%
13 personnel	12.8%	+12.8%	0.0%
10 personnel	0.0%	−7.1%	7.1%
20 personnel	0.0%	−1.3%	1.3%
Other personnel	1.7%	−0.3%	2.0%

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

Buffalo Bills · 2021

Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnel → Shotgun	683
11 personnel → Singleback	117
10 personnel → Shotgun	68
21 personnel → I_Form	58
11 personnel → Empty	56
12 personnel → Singleback	56
21 personnel → Singleback	40
21 personnel → Shotgun	26
11 personnel → Pistol	14
12 personnel → Shotgun	14
10 personnel → Empty	12
11 personnel → I_Form	12
20 personnel → I_Form	10
Other → Empty	9
11 personnel → Other	7
Other → Other	7
10 personnel → Singleback	6
21 personnel → Other	6
Other → Shotgun	6
12 personnel → I_Form	5
12 personnel → Pistol	3
20 personnel → Shotgun	3
10 personnel → Pistol	2
11 personnel → Unknown	2
12 personnel → Unknown	2
20 personnel → Singleback	2
12 personnel → Empty	1
20 personnel → Unknown	1
21 personnel → Empty	1
Other → Pistol	1
Other → Singleback	1
Other → Unknown	1
Unknown → Unknown	1
Shotgun → Pass	590
Shotgun → Run	210
Singleback → Run	143
Singleback → Pass	79
Empty → Pass	75
I_Form → Run	51
I_Form → Pass	34
Other → Run	14
Pistol → Pass	11
Pistol → Run	9
Other → Pass	6
Unknown → Run	5
Empty → Run	4
Unknown → Pass	2
Pass → Failure	385
Pass → Success	289
Run → Failure	248
Run → Success	140
Pass → Explosive	123
Run → Explosive	48