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How We Play Offense

Last updated Aug 27, 2026

This section is a framework, not a penal code. It runs on the league's principles (Gameplay & Settings → How We Play), and every call comes back to one test:

Would a real coordinator call this, and would a real defense have a chance?

A handful of things below are hard lines — short, specific, and checkable by both coaches from one frame of the stream, so nobody has to argue about them. Everything else is a standard: how this league expects offense to be played. Standards are judged on patterns, not single snaps — one late throw is a throw, twenty is a scheme. Anything that needs a ruling goes through Gameplay & Settings → Playing in Good Faith.

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