The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers just finished playing each other twice in the span of 14 days, with Tampa Bay winning both contests, 32-6 in Charlotte in Week 16 and 41-17 in Tampa in Week 18. Whether or not the close proximity of those two games was the impetus, the Buccaneers significantly changed up their offensive strategy for the rematch.
In their road win two weeks ago, the Buccaneers offense used what it called "11" personnel on 27.4% of its plays. That was an extraordinarily low number for Bruce Arians' attack; on the season as a whole the Bucs have lined up with 11 personnel on 66.5% of their offensive snaps, and this was one of just two games that they did so less than 50% of the time. The Buccaneers used 11 personnel 46.7% of the time in their Week Two win over Atlanta.