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San Francisco 49ers 2023 vs Cincinnati Bengals 2025

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 San Francisco 49ers 2023 minus Cincinnati Bengals 2025
MetricSFShiftCIN
Plays1,1921,044
Pass rate55.4%−10.4%65.8%
Shotgun rate56.9%−22.8%79.7%
Explosive rate17.5%+5.7%11.9%
Success rate50.3%+4.8%45.5%
Personnel groupings
11 personnel40.4%−24.9%65.2%
12 personnel11.7%−18.5%30.3%
21 personnel38.5%+36.6%1.9%
22 personnel8.6%+8.6%0.0%
Other personnel0.8%−1.8%2.6%

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

San Francisco 49ers · 2023
PersonnelFormationRun / PassOutcome11211222OtherShotgunUnder CenterPistolRunPassExplosiveSuccessFailure
Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnelShotgun363
21 personnelShotgun229
21 personnelUnder Center199
11 personnelUnder Center110
22 personnelUnder Center75
12 personnelUnder Center69
12 personnelShotgun57
21 personnelPistol30
22 personnelShotgun26
12 personnelPistol14
11 personnelPistol7
OtherUnder Center6
OtherShotgun3
11 personnelUnknown1
21 personnelUnknown1
22 personnelPistol1
22 personnelUnknown1
ShotgunPass525
Under CenterRun338
ShotgunRun153
Under CenterPass121
PistolRun40
PistolPass12
UnknownPass2
UnknownRun1
PassFailure313
RunFailure280
PassSuccess208
RunSuccess182
PassExplosive139
RunExplosive70
Cincinnati Bengals · 2025
PersonnelFormationRun / PassOutcome111221OtherShotgunUnder CenterPistolRunPassExplosiveSuccessFailure
Play flows between adjacent stages (source, target, play count)
11 personnelShotgun600
12 personnelShotgun200
12 personnelUnder Center100
11 personnelUnder Center68
OtherShotgun23
12 personnelPistol16
11 personnelPistol13
21 personnelShotgun9
21 personnelUnder Center9
OtherUnder Center4
21 personnelPistol2
ShotgunPass624
ShotgunRun208
Under CenterRun132
Under CenterPass49
PistolRun17
PistolPass14
PassFailure374
PassSuccess223
RunFailure195
RunSuccess128
PassExplosive90
RunExplosive34